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Dr. Petricciani received the 2017 Hancock Award for Outstanding Achievement in CMC Regulatory Science from CASSS, a non-profit science society. Dr. Petricciani received the award for his long and esteemed career in the biologics regulatory field. His accomplishments highlighted at the award ceremony included his discovery that bacteriophages in childhood vaccines posed no serious health risk for children, his work with the industry and the WHO to establish safety standards for diploid cells used to produce human vaccines, and his landmark published paper that paved the way for the eventual opening of hundreds of clinical research studies of products manufactured in continuous cell lines, and eventually for over 70 currently licensed products.

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