Materials Science & Biopharmaceutics Joint Meeting
Characterising Bioperformance of small molecules – new tools and technologies

21st - 22nd May 2009, Burleigh Court, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK

 

Programme:   [Thursday] [Friday]

Thursday 21st May - Day One – ‘Materials testing to inform biopharmaceutics'
9.30   Coffee and Registration

10.00   Welcome and Introduction

10.10   Plenary speaker – emerging technologies for API and drug product characterization and the link to bioperformance
Thomas Rades - School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, NZ

10.50 Salt Selection: formulation considerations
Barbara Conway, School of Life and Health Sciences – University of Aston

11.30   Polymorph – Assessment of Biopharmaceutics risk
Neil Feeder, Pfizer
12.10   Lunch and poster session
13.40   Biopharmaceutics risks with salt selection
Gorkhn Sharma Singh,
AstraZeneca

14.20 Short talks (3 x 20 mins) selected from submitted abstracts
15.20   Coffee
15.50   Use of spectroscopic mapping and imaging in drug product characterisation
Don Clark,
Pfizer

16.30   Improved understanding of the mechanistic behaviour of MR dosage forms and the role of low field MRI imaging
James Butler,
GSK
17.10   Poster Prize Presentation / Close

18.30   Drinks Reception and dinner for all Speakers and Delegates

     
Friday 22nd May - Day Two– ‘Biopharmaceutical performance of characterised systems’
09.00    Current challenges in predicting bioperformance of complex products
Professor Christos Reppas,
University of Athens

09.45   Amorphous form case study
Hannah Batchelor,
AstraZeneca
10.30   Coffee
11.00 Using Material Science to Predict Bioperformance - an MSD Case Study
Richard Kendall,
MSD

11.45   QbD, dose form development and biopharmaceutics
Chris Davison,
GSK
12.30   Lunch & poster session
14.00   Novel dissolution systems for predicting bioperformance – current experience with the TNO TIM-1 system
Susann Bellmann,
TNO

14.45 Novel dissolution systems for predicting bioperformance – the importance of physical attributes for product performance
Professor Werner Weitschies,
University of Greifswald

15.30 Formulation of poorly water soluble compounds in early drug development
Chris Towler,
Novartis

16.15   Close of conference
 

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