Programme
27 March 2025
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 0900-0930 hours | Coffee and Registration | |
| 0930-1000 hours | Introduction to the MCS | Kendall Pitt |
Session 1: Materials Science
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 1000-1030 hours | Linking crystal structure with particle morphology | Helen Blade |
| 1030-1100 hours | BMS Applications the morphology mapping application | Michael Leane |
| 1100-1120 hours | Mid-morning break | |
| 1120-1150 hours | Spherical Agglomeration to enable CDC | Cameron Brown |
| 1150-1220 hours | Posters Flash Presentations Session 1 (2-5 minutes per poster) | Poster Authors |
| 1220-1315 hours | Lunch break | |
| 1315-1345 hours | Gent – Material Property Database. Experience over the last 10 years | Tomas De Beer |
Session 2: Formulation Development
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 1345-1415 hours | Formulating amorphous dispersions and tablet microstructure | Sune Andersen |
| 1415-1445 hours | Production and scale up of formulations-modelling and experiments | Prof Panagiota Angeli |
| 1445-1505 hours | Mid-afternoon break | |
| 1505-1535 hours | From Bulk Properties to Compression: Model-informed Decision Making for a Continuous Direct Compression Line | Hikaru Jolliffe and John Robertson |
| 1535-1605 hours | Direct compression and application of neural networks | Jens Dhondt |
| 1605-1635 hours | Modelling and process selection and design | Gavin Reynolds |
| 1635-1735 hours | Workshop: What do we need to do to get the MCS accepted in regulatory filings and ease the regulatory burden? | Moderator: Walkiria Schindelwein |
28 March 2025
Session 3: Process Development
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 0900-0930 hours | Coffee and welcome | |
| 0930-1000 hours | Self-optimising tablet data factory | Daniel Markl |
| 1000-1030 hours | Particle Coating | Afzal-Ur-Rahman Mohammed |
| 1030-1050 hours | Mid-morning break | |
| 1050-1120 hours | Continuous hot melt extrusion: why choose hot melt, how to choose the right polymer, how to predict processing conditions? | Gavin Andrews |
| 1120-1150 hours | Continuous processing and tribo charging | Amrit Paudel |
| 1150-1220 hours | Posters Flash Presentations Session 2 (2-5 mins per poster) | Poster Authors |
| 1220-1315 hours | Lunch break | |
| 1315-1415 hours | Panel Discussion: Can continuous deal with a broader range of API properties than batch? Which is more value added: Integrated or continuous? How to strike the balance in the face of material variability? | Moderator: Anthony Tantuccio |
| 1415-1445 hours | Transferring Batch to Continuous Manufacturing | Ossi Korhonen |
| 1445-1505 hours | Mid-afternoon break | |
| 1505-1535 hours | Drawing the boundaries between granulation and continuous direct compression | Claudia Moura |
| 1535-1635 hours | AI in formulation and process development: a blessing or a curse? | Panel discussion Moderator: Sandra Silva |