Meeting report: High-throughput process development--HTPD 2012: June 4-7, 2012, Avignon, France.

High throughput process development (HTPD), the application of miniaturized and automated experiments for the development of protein production and purification processes, has been established over the last decade and has found its way into most process development group in the pharmaceutical industry. The first installment of the HTPD meeting in 2010 had been a huge success in bringing together people from academia and industry dedicated to this topic. With its second occasion, the scope of the meeting was broadened while the quality of the contributions and the balance between academic and industrial topics was kept at the excellently high quality underlining this meetings importance and singular position for the field of HTPD.