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SUMMARY:WEBINAR - Characterisation and Standardisation of Nanomedicine
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR - Characterisation and Standardisation of Nanomedicine
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR - Characterisatrion and Standardisation of Nanomedicine
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SUMMARY:APS Festive Lecture 2022: Free to all
DESCRIPTION:APS Festive Lecture – 1st December 2022\nOverview\n\n\n\n\nThe inaugural APS Festive Lecture will reflect on pharmaceutical sciences in the past year and will highlight exciting trends and topics of interest to look out for 2023. \n\n\n\n\nWho should attend\n\n\n\n\nThe APS Festive Lecture is an interactive lecture open to all\, pharmaceutical scientists and non-pharmaceutical scientists. The lecture will be given by  Dr Bahijja Raimi-Abraham (King’s College London). \n\n\n\n\nProgramme\n1st December 2022 – 14.00-15.00 UK Time/15.00-16.00 CET \nSpeakers and Chairs\n\n\n\nDr Bahijja Rami-Abraham: \nA pharmacist\, Lecturer in Pharmaceutics at King’s College London\, Founder and Academic Lead of King’s College London Fight the Fakes. She leads her research group ‘The Raimi-Abraham Group’ which focuses on solving pharmaceutical challenges in infectious diseases with a particular interest in malaria\, tuberculosis\, and latent and asymptomatic infections. Dr Raimi-Abraham is the founder and host of Monday Science (selected in the top 25 Best UK Science Podcast by Feedspot)\, a weekly podcast that discusses the latest in Science\, Health and Technology. Dr Raimi-Abraham is the first graduate of the University of East Anglia School of Pharmacy to be awarded a PhD and was the 2018 recipient of the Outstanding Woman in STEM Precious Award. Dr Raimi-Abraham is a Board Member of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Great Britain (APS). More recently\, Dr Raimi-Abraham was the recipient of the 2022 APS Emerging Scientist Award. Before her current position at King’s\, Dr Raimi-Abraham held positions at University College London (UCL) as an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) postdoctoral researcher position and at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) as a seconded Quality National Expert. \nSocial Media Twitter\, Instagram and TikTok – @DrBahijjaRaimiA \nKing’s College London Website – https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/bahijja-raimi-abraham \nProfessional Website – https://www.bahijjaraimiabraham.com/ \nThe Raimi-Abraham Group Website – https://www.theraimiabrahamgroup.com/ (social media details available via website) \nKing’s College London Fight the Fakes – https://kclfightthefakes.wixsite.com/fakes (social media details available via website) \nMonday Science Podcast – https://www.mondaysciencepodcast.com/ (social media details available via website) \n\n\n\nTickets\nAPS Festive Lecture – Free\n(please purchase your tickets to reserve your place for this virtual event) \nBuy
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SUMMARY:New Events Coming Soon.
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SUMMARY:Emerging Technologies April 2022
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL MEETING – 21st April 2022\nsorry this event is now complete but you can find the webinars/ presentations in the members hub\nClick here to view the webinars/ presentationsOverview\n\n\n\n\nThe APS Emerging Technologies Focus Group\, is pleased to announce their webinar which will offer plenty of opportunities for discussions. This meeting will bring together expert speakers from academia and industry and will include a talk from a junior researcher and a talk from a senior researcher from industry or academia. \n\n\n\n\nWho should attend\n\n\n\n\nThis meeting is ideally suited for PhD Candidates\, Academics\, Industrialists\, Specialist Technology Providers\, and Regulatory Personnel. Overall\, the content of this special series has been carefully crafted to complement the existing APS portfolio and the Emerging Technologies Focus Group hot topics. \n\n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\n\n\n21 April 2022 – 13.00-14.00 UK Time/14.00-15.00 CET\n\n \n\n\n3D Bioprinting applications in drug discovery and development\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers and Chairs\nAleksandar Atanasov  \nAleks obtained his BSc in Biochemistry and his MSc in Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine from University College London. During his Master’s\, he explored bioactive glasses – more widely used in bone regeneration – in the context of chronic wound healing. There\, he gained an in-depth understanding of the processes and pathways that define skin recovery\, scarring\, and regeneration. This led to Aleks’ current position at the Healthcare Technologies Institute at the University of Birmingham as a PhD student with the lifETIME CDT. His project entails creating a 3D substitute to model normal skin\, wound healing\, and scarring. The aim is to recapitulate the tissue\, in terms of its structural complexity\, its mechanical properties\, and its local biochemical profiles. As well as 3D bioprinting techniques\, Aleks’ project also features solutions for spatial and temporal control over the release of growth factors and cytokines\, courtesy of Cell Guidance System Ltd. Combined\, they give the project the potential to push the boundaries of 3D skin models\, and make them an even more versatile and powerful tool for both research and medical applications. \n\n\nAleksandar Atanasov  \nPhD Student \nEPSRC CDT in Engineered Tissues for Discovery\, Industry and Medicine (lifETIME) \nHealthcare Technologies Institute\, \nUniversity of Birmingham \n\nDr Deepak Kalaskar is Associate Professor of Bioengineering at University College London (UCL) Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences. His research focuses on design and development of novel medical devices\, implants and regenerative therapies using 3D technologies (3D imaging\, scanning\, and printing) for various Musculoskeletal conditions.  \nFollowing his PhD from the University of Manchester (UK)\, he worked at various Universities in UK and Belgium in stem cells\, nanomaterials\, medical device development and bioprinting before joining UCL in 2012.   \nCurrently\, he is co-chair and director of the postgraduate MSc course in Burns\, Plastic and Reconstructive surgery at University College London (UCL) and the Royal Free Hospital\, London. He is actively involved in clinically translational research. He is working closely with number of industries for the development of new products and processes required for clinical translation. \nHe is the editor of 3 books in the field of 3D printing in Medicine (Elsevier)\, Nanomedicine (Open Press) and Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (UCL Press). He has also contributed to over 100 scientific publications in internationally peer reviewed journals.  \nHe has contributed to studies and policy documents in 3D printing & 3D Bioprinting and reviewed them for UK patent office\, UK Parliamentary Department of Science & Technology (POST). His invited media reports and expert opinions are published in English\, Spanish and Italian languages for various international science and technology magazines. He also runs international bioprinting research platform https://www.bioprintingresearchplatform.org/ to enhance global collaborations and early career research training.  \nDr Deepak Kalaskar  \n Associate Professor Bioengineering \nUCL Division of Surgery & Interventional Sciences \nDeputy Director MSc Burns\, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery \nLondon \nCareer Lead UCL Division of Surgery & Interventional Sciences
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SUMMARY:Industrial Insights 2022
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL MEETING – 13th April 2022\nsorry this event is now complete but you can find the webinars/ presentations in the members hub\nClick here to view the webinars/ presentationsOverview\n\n\n\n\nFollowing our successful industrial insights events in April 2021 and September 2021\, we will be holding another event on the 13th of April 2022. \n\n\n\n\nSpeakers and Chairs\nBenjamin Gabriele\nSenior Particle Scientist\, AstraZeneca \nProfessor Hannah Batchelor\nStrathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences \nDr Mridul Majumder\nBPharm MPharm MSc PhD FRSC MAPS\, Founder and Director M2M Pharmaceuticals Limited \nKieran Sproston\nFormulation Scientist\, Drug Product Design\, Pfizer \nProgramme\n13th April 2022 – 13.00-17.00 UK Time/14.00-18.00 CET\n  \n1300 hours – Welcome – NSFG Committee \n1310 hours – Keynote Speaker – Hannah Batchelor\, Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences\, University of Strathclyde) \n1340 hours – Career Journeys – short presentations and Q&A: \nBenjamin Gabriel\, Senior Particle Scientist\, AstraZeneca \nKieran Sproston\, Formulation Scientist\, Drug Product Design\, Pfizer \n1420 hours – Video Session – Working for a Pharmaceutical start-up (FabRx\, UCL) \n1440 hours – Break \n1500 hours – Keynote Speaker – Mridul Majumber\, Founder and Director M2M Pharmaceuticals Limited \n1530 hours – Interactive Session – Virtual Manufacturing Plant Tour – Mohammed Babar\, Campaign Manager and Process Chemist In The Large Scale Laboratory\, Early Chemical Development\, AstraZeneca \n1615 hours – Pharmacetutical Question Time – a chance to ask questions on careers in the Pharmaceutical Industry \n1655 hours – Wrap-up – NSFG Committee \n1700 hours – Close \nSpeakers and Chairs\nCareer Journeys speakers:\n\nBenjamin Gabriele\nSenior Particle Scientist\, AstraZeneca\n\nBio:\n\n\n\nBenjamin Gabriele obtained in 2015 his MEng in Materials Science from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) of Lyon in France. In 2016\, he started a PhD with Dr Aurora Cruz-Cabeza in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Analytical Science at the University of Manchester. His focus was on the crystallisation and the characterisation of organic single crystals. His work included many aspects of crystallisation and material sciences such as polymorphism and mechanical properties of single crystals. As a result\, he also worked in close collaboration with Prof. Brian Derby from the Department of Materials at the University of Manchester. He successfully graduated at the end of 2020. He then started a new role as a Particle Scientist at Concept Life Sciences before joining AstraZeneca for a similar role from March 2021. His interest lies in the characterisation of organic compounds and how their properties correlate with single crystal data. \n\n\nProfessor Hannah Batchelor \nStrathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences \n161 Cathedral Street \nGlasgow G4 0RE \nhannah.batchelor@strath.ac.uk \nhttps://pureportal.strath.ac.uk/en/persons/hannah-batchelor \nwww.strath.ac.uk/sipbs \nTwitter @han_batchelor \nORCID ID 0000-0002-8729-9951 \nPersonal webpage: www.hannahbatchelor.com \nTEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGbqLsY5J4c. \nBiography:  \nProfessor Hannah Batchelor is a pharmaceutical scientist who has worked in academia\, the NHS and within pharmaceutical industry. She is currently based at the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Science\, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. \nShe works on the design and manipulation of medicines to create age appropriate drug formulations to maximise clinical efficacy in paediatric patients. Her research interests lie in the optimisation of drug formulations to maximise their biopharmaceutical performance and acceptability to children. Her research is informed by the views of children\, young people and parents to ensure that the patients are at the centre of new developments. \nHannah is the current chair of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the UK. She is still passionate about pharmaceutical sciences and is motivated to inspire the next generation of scientists. \n\n \nDr Mridul Majumder\nBPharm MPharm MSc PhD FRSC MAPS\, Founder and Director M2M Pharmaceuticals Limited. \n\n\n\n\nAbout:  \nDr Mridul Majumder is a Pharmaceutical scientist with a PhD in Pharmaceutics. Founder and Director of M2M Pharmaceuticals Ltd since 2016. In past\, worked for a CRO for 12 years in early stage product development especially related to material science for inhaled drug delivery. Have worked in principles to cGMP as per the ICH Q8\, Q9\, Q10 and Q11. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpecial Interests:  \nAmorphous materials (intentional/unintentional) Amorphous content determination with method development and validation Inhalation drug delivery\nSolid form selection Batch-to-batch variability\nSolid dispersion Co-crystallisation in solid-state. \n\n\n\n\nContact Details: \nThe Gateway Building\n1 Collegiate Square\nThames Valley Science Park (TVSP) Reading RG2 9LH\nUK\nT: + 44 (0) 118 304 1035 (direct)\nT: + 44 (0) 118 304 1002 (switch)\nM: + 44 (0) 7946 560263\nE: mridul.majumder@m2mpharma.com E: info@m2mpharma.com\nW: www.m2mpharma.com \n\nKieran Sproston \nFormulation Scientist\, Drug Product Design\, Pfizer \nKieran is a Formulation Scientist working in Pfizer to develop the formulation and manufacturing process for some of their novel compounds.  He is from a Pharmacy background\, graduating from University of Manchester in 2019. He completed his pre-registration year split between Paydens Community Pharmacy and Pfizer and has continued in the same department since then.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBabar Mohammed\, Campaign Manager and Process Chemist In The Large Scale Laboratory\, Early Chemical Development\, AstraZeneca.\n\n\n\n’Mohammad Babar obtained his MChem from the University of Liverpool in 2017. He then joined the Analytical & Science Technology department at Novartis focussing on GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice). In 2018\, he joined Manchester Organics Ltd. as a Synthetic Organic Chemist working on route design\, process development and the scale up of primarily organofluoride compounds. Since 2019\, Mohammad has held various roles at AstraZeneca\, currently working flexibly between Process Chemistry and the Large Scale Laboratory within Early Chemical Development at Macclesfield\, UK. His key responsibilities involve developing robust processes of key intermediates & APIs\, whilst also planning the accommodation of GMP drug substance manufactures.’’
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SUMMARY:Emerging Technologies March 2022
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL MEETING – 24th March 2022\nOverview\n\n\n\n\nThe APS Emerging Technologies Focus Group\, is pleased to announce their webinar which will offer plenty of opportunities for discussions. This meeting will bring together expert speakers from academia and industry and will include a talk from a junior researcher and a talk from a senior researcher from industry or academia. \n\n\n\n\nWho should attend\n\n\n\n\nThis meeting is ideally suited for PhD Candidates\, Academics\, Industrialists\, Specialist Technology Providers\, and Regulatory Personnel. Overall\, the content of this special series has been carefully crafted to complement the existing APS portfolio and the Emerging Technologies Focus Group hot topics. \n\n\n\n\nSpeakers and Chairs\n\n\n\n\nDr Ian Johnston\, Associate Professor\, Head of the Microfluidics & Microengineering Research Group\, Director of the Centre for Research in Biodetection Technologies\, University of Hertfordshire \n\nEllis Smith\, PhD Student\, University of Strathclyde. \n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\n\n24 March 2022 – 13.00-14.00 UK Time/14.00-15.00 CET\n \n\nMicrofluidics for drug discovery and development\n \n\n\nA microfluidic approach to investigating vascular cell fate at the single-cell level \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers and Chairs\n \nIan Johnston is an Associate Professor in the School of Physics\, Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire (UH). He obtained his degree in Physics from the University of Leeds and his PhD in microfluidic systems for blood cell analysis from the University of Hertfordshire. He was central in the establishment of the facilities for microfluidic rapid prototyping at UH. \nIan leads the Microfluidics and Microengineering Research Group and is also Director of the Centre for Research in Biodetection Technologies\, a multidisciplinary research centre concerned with real-time monitoring\, sampling\, and analysis of waterborne and airborne pathogens for protection of human health. \nHe has over 25 years of experience leading multi-partner\, multi-disciplinary lab-on-a-chip projects focussing on applied microfluidic technologies and integrated automated systems for use in bioscience applications. His work focusses on applied research and development for delivery of tangible prototype devices and systems for commercial and government organisations. His areas of expertise span continuous flow microfluidics\, and digital droplet microfluidics for cell handling and identification. \nHis current research focuses on microfluidic techniques for application areas including EWOD sample recovery and LAMP diagnostics with EWOD for healthcare and biowarfare\, too cell identification and sorting for food security and crop protection. \n  \n \nEllis Smith PhD Student\, University of Strathclyde graduated in 2018 from the University of Glasgow\, with a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering. She is currently pursuing a 4-year PhD in microfluidics at the University of Strathclyde\, investigating the mechanisms causing abnormal proliferation of vascular cells and the cell sub-populations involved. The aim of her project is to develop a new methodology to continuously track the functional changes that individual vascular cells undergo in response to various stimuli and drug treatments.
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SUMMARY:Exciperience
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL MEETING – 9th – 10th March 2022\nOverview\n\n\n\n\nThe APS is pleased to promote this exciting event. \nThere is a 20% discount for all APS members. Please get the discount code from the member’s hub. \nTo Register for this event here
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SUMMARY:Emerging Technologies February 2022
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL MEETING – 3rd February 2022\nsorry this event is now complete but you can find the webinars/ presentations in the members hub\nClick here to view the webinars/ presentationsOverview\n\n\n\n\nThe APS Emerging Technologies Focus Group\, is pleased to announce their webinar which will offer plenty of opportunities for discussions. This meeting will bring together expert speakers from academia and industry and will include a talk from a junior researcher and a talk from a senior researcher from industry or academia. \n\n\n\n\nWho should attend\n\n\n\n\nThis meeting is ideally suited for PhD Candidates\, Academics\, Industrialists\, Specialist Technology Providers\, and Regulatory Personnel. Overall\, the content of this special series has been carefully crafted to complement the existing APS portfolio and the Emerging Technologies Focus Group hot topics. \n\n\n\n\nSpeakers and Chairs\n\n\n\n\nProf Francesco Luigi Gervasio\, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of Geneva & Professor of Chemistry at University College London \nMs Kamolrat Somboon\, Ph.D. Student at University of Southampton \n\n\n\n\nProgramme\n3 February 2022 at 1300 hours GMT/1400 hours CET. \nIn Silico Modelling \nSpeakers and Chairs\nKamolrat Somboon \nField of Work: \nI use computational simulations to study the structure\, function\, and dynamics of biomolecular systems at the molecular level. I aim to understand bacterial cell envelopes and especially their membrane proteins. \nEducation: \nUniversity of Southampton\, Southampton\, UK \nPh.D. Candidate\, Department of Chemistry Research Advisor: Prof. Syma Khalid \nKasetsart University\, Bangkok\, Thailand \nM.Sc. (Chemistry)\nResearch Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Prapasiri Pongprayoon \nKasetsart University\, Bangkok\, Thailand \nB.Sc. (Chemistry\, First class honor)\nResearch Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Prapasiri Pongprayoon \nAwards and Honors: \n\nFirst Place Poster Award\, 1st PGR Chemistry E-conference\, University of Southampton\nThe Royal Thai Government Fellowship for undergraduate and PhD study through the Development and Promotion of Science and Technology Talents Projects (DPST)\n\nResearch and Experience: \nGraduate Research\nDissertation Title: Computational Simulations Reveal Substrate Translocation Pathway through Transporters \nUndergraduate and master’s degree Research\nThesis Title: Probing the Binding Affinities of Imipenem and Ertapenem for Outer Membrane Carboxylate Channel (OccD1) from P. aeruginosa Simulation Studies \n\n\n\nFrancesco Luigi Gervasio (FLG) \nOrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4831-5039 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RXTcXZUAAAAJ\nWeb: www.gervasiolab.com \nFLG is currently Professor of pharmaceutical sciences at University of Geneva Chemistry\, Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Structural and Molecular Biology at University College London. \nFLG got his PhD in Chemistry from University of Firenze\, Italy at the end of 2001. He then joined the group of Prof. Parrinello at ETH Zurich first as a postdoc and the as Oberassistent (2002-2009).\nAt ETHZ he focused on the time-scale problem of molecular dynamics simulations and the calculation of free energies associated to complex biological events\, contributing to the development of methods such as Metadynamics\, Parallel-Tempering Metadynamics (PT- MetaD) and the path-like collective variables method (PCV). \nIn 2009 he joined the Spanish National Cancer Research Center in Madrid- Spain as the leader of the Biophysics group. There he continued the development of computational methods\, including a method to predict binding kinetics (PRL 2013). He also combined simulations with NMR experiments to better understand the mode of action of cancer-causing mutations and allosteric drugs. \nIn 2013 he joined University College London as full professor. Research highlights from this period include the development of a method to predict previously unknown cryptic binding pocket\, which was used to design allosteric modulators of FGFR (Cancer Cell\, JACS 2016); the development of a computational approach combining evolutionary principles with a physics- based coarse-grained model to predict protein structure and dynamics (PNAS 2015); the clarification of an unexpected moonlighting activity by Glutamine Synthetase (Nature 2018). In 2020 FLG also joined the University of Geneva as full professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences (while retaining his Chair at UCL). \nThe current research focus of the group is the development of simulations-based methods to understand the regulation of drug targets and design new therapeutic agents. In this context\, the group used enhanced sampling simulations to clarify the activation mechanism of the glucagon receptor (PNAS 2020) and the effect of oncogenic mutations on the dynamics of EGFR (ELife 2021). \nFLG is the editor in chief of Frontiers in Biological Modeling and Simulation; director of CECAM JC Maxwell node and a member of the Faculty of 1000. \nHe has an h-index of 49\, more than 9300 citations (Google Scholar) and more than 120 peer- reviewed publications\, including several in leading journals such as Nature\, Cancer Cell\, Chem. Rev.\, Acc. Chem. Res.\, Rep. Prog. Phys\, Sci. Adv.\, Nat. Comm.\, Proc. Nat. Acad. USA\, J. Am. Chem. Soc.\, Angew. Chem. and Phys. Rev. Lett. FLG organized several international conferences\, workshops and tutorials on allosteric regulation and biomolecular simulations. \nHis research group is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation\, EU Horizon Europe and EPSRC. He actively collaborates with AstraZeneca\, J&J and UCB.
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SUMMARY:Emerging Technologies January 2022
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL MEETING – 20th January 2022\nsorry this event is now complete but you can find the webinars/ presentations in the members hub\nClick here to view the webinars/ presentationsOverview\n\n\n\n\nThe APS Emerging Technologies Focus Group\, is pleased to announce their webinar which will offer plenty of opportunities for discussions. This meeting will bring together expert speakers from academia and industry and will include a talk from a junior researcher and a talk from a senior researcher from industry or academia. \n\n\n\n\nWho should attend\n\n\n\n\nThis meeting is ideally suited for PhD Candidates\, Academics\, Industrialists\, Specialist Technology Providers\, and Regulatory Personnel. Overall\, the content of this special series has been carefully crafted to complement the existing APS portfolio and the Emerging Technologies Focus Group hot topics. \n\n\n\n\nSpeakers and Chairs\n\n\n\n\nProf Ola Engkvist\, Head Molecular AI at AstraZeneca and Professor at Chalmers University of Technology \nMs Lucy Godson\, PhD Student at University of Leeds \n\n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\n\n20th January 2022 – 13.00-14.00 UK Time/14.00-15.00 CET \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe will be running further webinars which will include the following: \n. 3D Bioprinting applications in drug discovery & development. \n. Microfluidics for drug discovery and development. \n. BioMEMS devices as biosensors\, drug delivery systems and injectable devices. \n. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. \n. In silico modelling. \n. Environmental\, social\, economic\, and legal concerns on the use of Emerging Technologies. \n\n\n\nSpeakers and Chairs\nLucy Godson joined the CDT for Artificial Intelligence for Medical Diagnosis and Care\, as a PhD student in October 2019. She completed a BSc. in Biochemistry with industrial experience at the University of Manchester (2018). During her undergraduate degree\, she spent a year working on a clinical research project in a cancer immunology lab at the Mayo Clinic\, Florida. Following this she carried out a final year project in computational biology\, using machine learning to predict protein-protein interactions and protein functions in the model organism S. cerevisiae. Her current research involves predicting melanoma patient outcomes through the integration and analysis of molecular\, cellular and clinical data\, using AI methodologies.\n \n\nProfessor Ola Engkvist is head of Molecular AI in Discovery Sciences\, AstraZeneca R&D. He did his PhD in computational chemistry at Lund University followed by a postdoc at Cambridge University.  After working for two biotech companies he joined AstraZeneca in 2004. He currently lead the Molecular AI department\, where the focus is to develop novel methods for ML/AI in drug design \, productionalize the methods and apply the methods to AstraZeneca’s small molecules drug discovery portfolio. His main research interests are deep learning based molecular de novo design\, synthetic route prediction and large scale molecular property predictions. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He is adjunct professor in machine learning and AI for drug design at Chalmers University of Technology and a trustee of Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center.
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SUMMARY:APS Festive Lecture: Free to all
DESCRIPTION:APS Festive Lecture – 9th December 2021\nOverview\n\n\n\n\nThe inaugural APS Festive Lecture will reflect on pharmaceutical sciences in the past year and will highlight exciting trends and topics of interest to look out for 2022. \n\n\n\n\nWho should attend\n\n\n\n\nThe APS Festive Lecture is an interactive lecture open to all\, pharmaceutical scientists and non-pharmaceutical scientists. The lecture will be given by Professor Sheng Qi (University of East Anglia) and Dr Bahijja Raimi-Abraham (King’s College London). \n\n\n\n\nProgramme\n9th December 2021 – 13.00-14.00 UK Time/14.00-15.00 CET \nSpeakers and Chairs\n\n\n\nDr Bahijja Rami-Abraham: \nDr Bahijja Raimi-Abraham is a pharmacist\, Lecturer in Pharmaceutics at King’s College London\, Founder of King’s College London Fight the Fakes and Academic Lead. She also leads her research group ‘The Raimi-Abraham Group’. \nDr Raimi-Abraham is a Board Member of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Great Britain (APS). \nBefore her current position as Lecturer in Pharmaceutics at King’s\, she held positions at University College London (UCL) as an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) postdoctoral researcher position and at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) as a seconded Quality National Expert. \nDr Bahijja Raimi-Abraham is the first graduate of the University of East Anglia School of Pharmacy to be awarded a PhD and was the 2018 recipient of the Outstanding Woman in STEM Precious Award. \nHer passion projects are her social enterprise STEAM:ED Collective and podcast Monday Science. \nSocial Media \nTwitter\, Instagram and TikTok – @DrBahijjaRaimiAKing’s College London Website – https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/bahijja-raimi-abraham The Raimi-Abraham Group Website – https://www.theraimiabrahamgroup.com/The Raimi-Abraham Group Twitter – @RaimiAbrahamGrpThe Raimi-Abraham Group Instagram – @TheRaimiAbrahamGroup \n  \n\nProf. Sheng Qi: \nProfessor of Pharmaceutical Material Science and Technology at the School of Pharmacy of the University of East Anglia. Prof. Qi’s lab has great interests in material science and processing\, and passion in innovation. She is the winner of 2019 and 2021 UEA Innovation and Impact Awards. By working closely with industrial partners as well as cross-discipline collaborators\, her research has contributed to product development and innovations in many industrial sectors\, from pharmaceutical\, medical device to food\, cosmetic\, agri-tech and sustainable packaging. Recently through the support of UEA Health and Social Care Partners\, she founded Point of Care 3D Printing Research Group to allow the scientists from UEA and other academic collaborators to work closely with clinicians\, pharmacists\, and patients in Norfolk and Suffolk to identify and develop efficient and cost-effective uses of 3D printing in acute hospital environments.
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SUMMARY:Emerging Technologies 2021
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL MEETING – 30th November 2021\nsorry this event is now complete but you can find the webinars/ presentations in the members hub\nClick here to view the webinars/ presentationsOverview\n\n\n\n\nThe APS Emerging Technologies Focus Group\, is pleased to announce their webinar which will offer plenty of opportunities for discussions. This meeting will bring together expert speakers from academia and industry and will include a talk from a junior researcher and a talk from a senior researcher from industry or academia. \n\n\n\n\nWho should attend\n\n\n\n\nThis meeting is ideally suited for PhD Candidates\, Academics\, Industrialists\, Specialist Technology Providers\, and Regulatory Personnel. Overall\, the content of this special series has been carefully crafted to complement the existing APS portfolio and the Emerging Technologies Focus Group hot topics. \n\n\n\n\nSpeakers and Chairs\n\n\n\n\nProf Richard Fu\, Professor at University of Northumbria at Newcastle \nMs Eve McGlynn\, Ph.D. Student at University of Glasgow \n\n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\n\n30th November 2021 – 13.00-14.00 UK Time/14.00-15.00 CET \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBioMEMS devices as biosensors\, drug delivery systems and injectable devices \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe will be running further webinars which will include the following: \n. 3D Bioprinting applications in drug discovery & development. \n. Microfluidics for drug discovery and development. \n. BioMEMS devices as biosensors\, drug delivery systems and injectable devices. \n. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. \n. In silico modelling. \n. Environmental\, social\, economic\, and legal concerns on the use of Emerging Technologies. \n\n\n\n\nSpeakers and Chairs\nRichard (YongQing) Fu is a professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Environment\, University of Northumbria at Newcastle\, UK. He obtained his PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore\, and then worked as a Research Fellow in Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance\, and a Research Associate in University of Cambridge. He was a lecturer in Heriot-Watt University\, Edinburgh\, UK\, and then a Reader in Thin Film Centre in University of West of Scotland\, Glasgow\, UK\, before moving to Newcastle\, UK in 2015. \nHe has extensive experience in smart thin films/materials\, biomedical microdevices\, energy materials\, lab-on-chip\, micromechanics\, MEMS\, nanotechnology\, sensors and microfluidics. He has established a worldwide reputation from his pioneer research work on shape memory films\, piezoelectric thin films\, nanostructured composite/films for MEMS\, sensors/ actuators\, and renewable energy applications. \nHe published over 400 science citation index (SCI) journal papers (including Nat. Comm.\, Prog. Mater Sci\, Adv. Mater.\, ACS Nano\, Nano Energy\, Nano Lett.\, Mater Horizons\, Chem. Mater.\, J Mater Chem A\, Advanced Drug Delivery Review\, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews)\, two books\, 20 book chapters\, and over 120 conference papers. His current SCI H-index is 56 with over 13 K citations\, and his Google scholar H-index is 64 with over 17K citations (up to June 2021). \nHe is associate editors/editorial board members for seven international journals including Scientific Report. He is regular journal paper reviewers for more than 40 journals\, has co-organized 12 international conferences worldwide\, and co-edited six special issues for different journals. \n  \nMs Eve McGlynn  graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2019 with an MEng in Electronics and Electrical Engineering. As part of the Microelectronics Lab in the James Watt School of Engineering\, she is primarily involved in nanofabrication of flexible polymer probes for recording and brain stimulation. Her work in the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre is supplemented by a research interest in magnetoelectric power transfer for biomedical applications.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL MEETING - Industrial Insights 2021
DESCRIPTION:sorry this event is now complete but you can find the webinars/ presentations in the members hub\nClick here to view the webinars/ presentationsVIRTUAL MEETING – 22nd September 2021\nProgramme\nOverview\nAs a pharmacy or pharmaceutical sciences student attending the event\, you will be able to gain first hand insight into the Pharmaceutical Industry through a series of talks by pharmaceutical scientists working within the industry. \nThis event was cancelled last year due to Covid-19. We are keen to keep connected with our students in a virtual world\, until we can host the conference again at one of our sponsor sites. \nThis event when held at either Astra Zeneca\, Pfizer and GSK has been very popular over the years attracting students from all over the UK. \nWho should attend\nAre you a pharmacy or pharmaceutical science student considering a career in industry? If so\, you should sign up for our FREE virtual event for members and small fee for non-members (or maybe consider joining APS for the same cost) on the 8th of April – Industrial Insights 2021. \nThis annual event is a chance to hear from those in industry on how to succeed at securing your dream job\, networking opportunities and a ‘Q & A’ session where you can ask questions to the panel. \nAny pharmacy\, pharmaceutical sciences or related science postgraduate or undergraduate student considering a career in the pharmaceutical industry. \nProgramme\nThursday 22rd September 2021\n\n\n\nAPS Industrial Insights 2021\n\n\nTime\nWednesday 22nd September 2021\n\n\n1300\nWelcome \nNSFG Committee\n\n\n1310\nKeynote Speaker \nBart Hens (Pfizer)\n\n\n1340\nA Day in the Life \nShort presentations and Q&A: \n·       Sadie Swainson (AZ) \n·       Anthea Pryde (GSK) \n·       Avnee Vaghjiani (Pfizer) \n·       Karolina Dziemidowicz (Academia)\n\n\n1440\nBreak\n\n\n1500\nKeynote Speaker \nClaire Thompson (Agility Life Sciences)\n\n\n1530\nInteractive Session \nVirtual manufacturing plant tour (Mohammad Babar\, AZ)\n\n\n1615\nPharmaceutical Question Time \nA chance to ask questions on careers in the Pharmaceutical Industry\n\n\n1655\nWrap-up \nNSFG Committee\n\n\n1700\nClose\n\n\n\nSpeakers and Chairs\nVirtual session run by:  \nMohammad Babar \n \nMohammad Babar obtained his MChem from the University of Liverpool in 2017. He then joined the Analytical & Science Technology department at Novartis focussing on GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice). In 2018\, he joined Manchester Organics Ltd. as a Synthetic Organic Chemist working on route design\, process development and the scale up of primarily organofluoride compounds. Since 2019\, Mohammad has held various roles at AstraZeneca\, currently working flexibly between Process Chemistry and the Large-Scale Laboratory within Early Chemical Development at Macclesfield\, UK. His key responsibilities involve developing robust processes of key intermediates & APIs\, whilst also planning the accommodation of GMP drug substance manufactures. \nKeynote Speaker \nBart Hens (Pfizer) \nKeynote Speaker \nProfessor Claire Thompson\, CEO\, Agility Life Sciences\n \nClaire is a multi-award winning scientist\, strategist and storyteller with more than 20 years’ experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry spanning the large multi-nationals GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer\, virtual biotech and Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations (CDMOs). She is CEO of Agility Life Sciences\, an award-winning CDMO\, consulting and communications firm which works with organisations across the healthcare space to fast track their products to market\, raise investment and help them to convey the benefits of their science through impactful communications. \nAgility supports biotech clients across the globe in developing formulations for novel drug candidates (small molecules and biologicals) for various routes of administration including oral\, ocular\, IV\, intranasal and topical. Agility’s “Fast Futureproof Formulations” approach means they always start with an end in mind\, developing products which enable molecules to be accelerated from discovery to clinic. \nClaire is also Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Cambridge\, where she advises academics on how to translate their research into healthcare products\, develop strategic partnerships and source funding. She holds an Honorary Professorship from the School of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham\, and is Chair of the International Pharmaceutical Federation’s Women in Science and Education (FIP WiSE) initiative. \nLinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-thompson-9b94853/
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SUMMARY:Virtual APS PharmSci 2021
DESCRIPTION:Poster Submission -Now Closed\n \nProgramme\nThe event takes place over three afternoons\, Tuesday 7th\, Wednesday 8th & Thursday 9th September 2021\nOverview\nThe PharmSci Conference is the key event in the APS calendar. This year we are holding a virtual conference over 3 afternoons on the 7th \,8th & 9th September 2021. \nThe meeting will include: \n• Plenary presentations by Award winners for the APS Award Lecture\, Innovative Science Award and Emerging Scientist Award\n• Presentations on ‘Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Global COVID-19 Pandemic’.\n• Two parallel science sessions on each of the days\n• Networking opportunities\n• Posters and Presentations\n• Exhibitors \nThe science session and lectures will includes leading edge research drawing on all the available talent which supports the UK to be a world-leader in pharmaceutical science.\nThe vPharmSci 2021 conference gives you at whatever stage of your career\, a unique opportunity to connect with pharmaceutical scientists\, based in industry\, academica\, regulatory and business from the UK and around the world. \nStructure \nYour registration ticket will entitle you to attend all 3 days. Tuesday 7th\, Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th September 2021. \nThey will start at 12.30 until 17.15 each day. \nYou can register for all days. \nYou will then shortly be sent a link to the conference platform. \nWho should attend\nThe APS vPharmSci conference is a showcase event for the pharmaceutical sciences community and provides a dynamic forum for the Pharma\, Biopharma and Cell and Gene Therapy industry to come together with academic colleagues. \nThe meeting is open to all in the pharmaceutical sciences community at whatever stage of their career. We particularly encourage students to join us and submit posters. \nvPharmSci Organising Committee\nTrevor Archbold (Vectura)\, Hannah Bachelor (University of Strathclyde & APS Board)\, (Bob Clay (Highbury Regulatory Science & APS Board)\, Fran Greco (University of Reading )\,Mark McAllister (Pfizer & APS Board)\, Trish Sharp (APS Administrator)\, Carol O’Connor (APS Scientific Advisor). \nDay 1-Tuesday 7th September 2021-12.30-17.15\n Programme\n12.30-12.45 Welcome & Open Address \nWelcome-Jo Craig- Chair of APS \nOpen Address- Professor Trevor Jones -Chairman of the Oxford based Drug Discovery Company\, e-Therapeutics plc and a Director of Respiratory Innovation Wales Ltd \n12.45-13.45- Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Global COVID-19 Pandemic \nProfessor Peter Simpson\, Chief Scientific Officer\,Medicines Discovery Catapult-A Lockdown\, Lighthouse\, Laboratory\, Journey \n13.45-14.45 APS Award Lecture \nProfessor Hans Lennernäs\, Professor in Biopharmaceutics-Uppsala University-Seven successful projects in my research – so far…… \n14.45-15.15 Networking\, Posters & Exhibitors  \n15.15-17.00 Parallel Science Session 1 \nPharmaceutical Education and Research with Regulatory Links – Outputs from the PEARRL Marie-Curie ITN \nChairs– Dr Brendan Griffin\, University College Cork  & Prof. Jennifer Dressman\, Fraunhofer ITMP\, Frankfurt. \nSpeakers & Talks  \nProf Maria Vertzoni (University of Athens\, Greece)-Evaluating drug product performance in infants based on adults data. \nDr. Felix Ditzinger (F.Hoffmann-La Roche)-Opportunities of interacting small molecular coformers in amorphous formulations \nDr Angela Effinger (DMPK\, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co)- Predicting Drug Product Performance in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease \n15.15-17.00 Parallel Science Session 2  \nProcess Engineering and Formulation Design – Continuous processing for Oral Solid Dose (OSD) \nChair-Dr Stuart Charlton -BMS \nSpeakers & Talks  \nProf Jim Litster (University of Sheffield)- Twin Screw Granulation – Mechanisms and Modelling \nDr Ranjitkumar Dhenge (GSK)-Continuous manufacturing: Wet granulation platform \nDr Kai Lee (Pfizer)-Continuous Powder Mixing Technology in Drug Product Manufacturing.  \n17.00-17.15 Awarding of Prizes and Closing for the Day  \nProfessor Trevor Jones and Jo Craig \nOpening Conference Speakers-Professor Trevor Jones & Jo Craig \nJo Craig-APS Chair & Senior Vice President CMC (Chemistry Manufacturing & Controls) for NeRRe Therapeutics\n \nCurrently Chair of APS\, Jo is a Pharmacist and has spent her entire career working in the pharmaceutical industry with a focus on pharmaceutical development\, product quality and the introduction of new manufacturing technologies. She is currently Senior Vice President CMC (Chemistry Manufacturing & Controls) for NeRRe Therapeutics\, a clinical stage biotech company located at the Stevenage Biosciences Catalyst. She also held the same role for KaNDy Therapeutics prior to its acquisition by Bayer in 2020. Previously\, Jo spent over 30 years at GlaxoSmithKline where her career spanned many leadership roles in CMC product development\, most recently as Vice President of Technology & Strategy\, Product Development & Supply. Jo led the technology team at the Medicines Manufacturing Industry Partnership (MMIP) 2017-2018 where she was influential in aligning Pharma and UK Government on future areas for investment as part of the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy. She continues to be involved with medicines manufacturing in the UK contributing to advisory groups. Jo is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society\, an Eminent Fellow of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences\, UK and has been an Advisor to the APS Board for several years. \n\nProf Trevor M Jones CBE FMedSci-PhD DSc Hon FRCP FBPhS FRSM FRSC FLSW\nProf Jones is Chairman of the Oxford based Drug Discovery Company\, e-Therapeutics plc and a Director of Respiratory Innovation Wales Ltd . He was formerly a Director of Allergan Inc. (USA) \,R&D Director of The Wellcome Foundation and Director General of the ABPI. \nProf Jones is a visiting professor at The Institute of Pharmaceutical Science at King’s College\, London and holds honorary degrees and Gold Medals from 6 universities. He was a founder member of the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV)\, a member of The UK Government Regulatory Agency …The Medicines Commission. \, advisor to the Cabinet Office on the Human Genome project\, Chair of the UK Government Advisory Group on Genetics Research. He is currently a member of the Wales Government\, Bevan Commission on Health\, was a Commissioner at The World Health Organisation\, WHO\, has advised the Government of the Netherlands TiPharma Board on Life Science and was a member of the EU Commission IMI Scientific Advisory Board.\nHe was the first winner of the SCRIP Life Time Achievement award \nAPS Award Speaker-Professor Hans Lennernäs\nProfessor Hans Lennernäs\, Ph.D. \nHans Lennernäs is a professor of Biopharmaceutics at Uppsala University since 1 July 2000\, Sweden and he has been an adjunct professor of Biopharmaceutics at Copenhagen University\, Denmark 2000-2012. His research objectives has been and are to develop novel strategies of tissue drug targeting and delivery that is expected to improve the clinical use and efficacy of drugs in various diseases\, such as metabolic and cancer diseases. He has been the Principal Investigator in an extensive collaboration with Food Drug & Administration\, USA\, University of Michigan\, USA\, and Medical Product Agency\, Sweden during 1992-2000 to develop the novel FDA regulatory guideline named the Biopharmaceutics Classification System. He has established an extensive human pharmacokinetic database with jejunal permeability values for 45 drug compounds that today is widely used in academia and pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Lennernäs has been the chairman for numerous international conferences. He serves as reviewer for several scientific journals in clinical pharmacology and pharmaceutical science with a focus on drug delivery and pharmacokinetics. His work had led to more 230 peer-reviewed publications\, 330 invited lectures and more than 350 submitted presentations at scientific meetings. He is well-cited author with more than 15 300 citations and a H-index of 62 (web of science). He has supervised 28 doctorial theses and acted as co-supervisor for two neurologists. He has obtained several national and international research grants such vetenskapsrådet\, cancerfonden och IMI (EU). He has received Glaxo Wellcome Achievement Award 1997 and Annual Award from the Industrial Pharmacy Section 1998\, Fédération Internationale Pharmaceutique (FIP)\, and a Honourable Mentions at EURAND AWARD 2000\, been elected the AAPS Fellow 2004 and received the AAPS Meritorious Manuscript Award 2004\, New Safe Medicine Faster Award 2008 and Hjärnäpplet (Innovation Award at Uppsala University) 2017. He received Lilly och Sven Thuréus Awards at Swedish Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala in 2019. He has been the managing entity for an EU-grant from IMI (Innovative Medicine Initiative) of 24.5 MEuro during 2012-2018. He received the highest research rank after an external international evaluation at UU during 2011 (Quality and Renewal 2011). Based on pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics principles his research group has during more than 20 years been active in developing a local drug delivery strategy for treatment of localized prostate cancer and primary liver cancer. Prototypes emerging from this research are currently evaluated in phase II clinical trials. He is the inventor of more than 16 drug delivery patents. He is one of the innovators and developers of a novel sublingual drug delivery system currently used for the treatment of various acute pain conditions (Rapinyl®). He has also together with co-inventors initiated four other start-up companies. One company has developed a novel oral replacement therapy (Plenadren®) for Addison disease (approved by EMA 2011) and the second company is developing of local drug product of localised prostate cancer\, which is to enter phase III-trials (www.liddspharma.com). Another innovation was the basis for Empros Pharma in the therapeutic area of obesity and metabolic disease and a phase IIa study has been successfully completed. He has been on the board on several companies such as Aquilion AB\, LIDDS AB\, Recipharm Pharmaceutical AB\, Nanologica AB\, Empros Pharma AB and Canthera AB\, Sweden. His research is today focused on new treatment approaches for hepatocellular cancer and various local gastrointestinal diseases. This research has a strong translational focus with innovation and development of novel drug delivery principles with drug combinations. This research is currently supported by the Swedish Research Council (Sweden’s largest governmental research organization) and Swedish Cancer Society (one of the largest financiers of cancer research in Sweden). \nScience Session Speakers and Chairs\n12.45-13.45- Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Global COVID-19 Pandemic \nProfessor Peter Simpson\, Chief Scientific Officer\,Medicines Discovery Catapult\nPeter is Chief Scientific Officer for Medicines Discovery Catapult. His expert biology teams collaborate with universities and SMEs around UK\, generating innovative technology and assay methodologies to accelerate progress in therapeutic discovery. Peter has previously been Director of N8 Research Partnership\, establishing multi-university research collaborations across the North of England and leading strategic engagement on innovation policy. \nIn 2020 at the start of the Covid pandemic\, Peter led the establishment of the Alderley Park Lighthouse Lab\, which now employs more than 600 staff and has delivered ~9 million Covid tests over the past year. \nPreviously\, Peter has twenty years of experience in leading innovative drug discovery departments and programmes within major Pharmaceutical companies (Merck\, AstraZeneca). He sits on multiple national and international advisory boards. \n15.15-17.00 Parallel Science Session 1 \n\nPharmaceutical Education and Research with Regulatory Links – Outputs from the PEARRL Marie-Curie ITN\nChairs\nBrendan Griffin-Professor of Pharmaceutics and Head of School of Pharmacy at University College Cork\nBrendan Griffin is currently Professor of Pharmaceutics and Head of School of Pharmacy at University College Cork. His research interests include formulation technology to improve oral drug delivery and computational pharmaceutics tools to streamline drug product development. He has authored over 85 peer reviewed publications; he is Project Coordinator of the €4m H2020 funded Marie Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) (www.pearrl.eu) and recently was successfully in leading a new ‘InPharma’ ITN (https://www.inpharma-network.eu/) to establish a new fully integrated\, animal-free\, end-to-end modelling approach in oral drug product development. \n\nProfessor Jennifer Dressman\nJennifer Dressman recently retired from the Goethe University in Frankfurt\, Germany\, where she was Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology for 27 years. She is now affiliated with the Fraunhofer Institute of Translational Medicine and Pharmacology in Frankfurt and continuing her research on oral absorption of small molecules. Professor Dressman has written over 300 papers\, books and chapters as well as co-authoring 15 patents\, and is best known for pioneering biorelevant dissolution testing. She is a Fellow of AAPS\, APV\, APSTJ and FIP\, as well as receiving numerous other awards \n\n\n\nDr Angela Effinger\nDr. Angela Effinger studied pharmacy at the Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg until 2015. After finishing her studies\, she joined the PEARRL project and started her PhD studies at the University of Bath with placements at the MHRA in London and Pfizer in Sandwich. During her PhD\, she developed in vitro and in silico tools to predict drug product performance in patients with gastrointestinal diseases. In 2020\, she joined Boehringer Ingelheim in Biberach as a postdoc and is currently working as senior pharmacometrician in DMPK. \n\nDr. Felix Ditzinger-F.Hoffmann-La Roche AG\, Pharmaceutical R&D\nDr. Felix Ditzinger is a pharmacist by training who studied at the Goethe University Frankfurt until 2016. After finishing his studies he participated in the PEARRL PhD project\, which enabled him to go on research and educational stays at the HPRA in Dublin\, Merck KgaA in Darmstadt and Janssen Pharmaceuticals in Beerse. After finishing his PhD about amorphous solid dispersions at the University of Basel\, he started  as a formulation scientist and drug product lead at F.Hoffmann-La Roche. \n\n\n\nProfessor Maria Vertzoni-Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics Department of Pharmacy\, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens\nMaria Vertzoni is Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics\, Department of Pharmacy\, National Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)\, Greece. She received her Bachelor in Chemistry in 1994\, her Master of Science in Analytical Chemistry in 1999 and her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2004 from NKUA. In 2016\, she received her Master of Science in Medical and Pharmaceutical Statistics from Athens University of Economics and Business. Research interests focus to the physicochemical characterization of intraluminal environment\, oral drug absorption with special interest in special populations. She is currently supervising 4 PhD Theses. She is co-author of more than 100 peer reviewed papers and chapters in international journals and books (h-index 37). She is member of the editorial board of Molecular Pharmaceutics\, Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology\, Pharmaceutics and Die Pharamzie. She is/has been involved in several EU funded training and research programs\, i.e. AGePOP\, PEARRL\, InPharma\, OrBiTo and COLOTAN\, and one COST action\, i.e. UNGAP. \n15.15-17.00 Parallel Science Session 2 \nProcess Engineering and Formulation Design – Continuous processing for Oral Solid Dosage (OSD)\nChair\nDr Stuart Charlton-Associate Scientific Director -Bristol Myers Squibb\n \nStuart works at Bristol Myers Squibb in the Drug Product Development group\, having joined the company in 2005. His current role as Associate Scientific Director is focused on the development of oral solid dosage forms from the pre-clinical stage through to product registration. Stuart has a particular interest in paediatric drug product development and is an SME leading and supporting activities across the company and externally. Other research interests include mechanistic understanding and mini-piloting for roller compaction and film-coating. Stuart graduated from the University of Bath with a degree in Pharmacy\, and was later awarded a PhD by the University of Nottingham in 2002 \n\n\nSpeakers\nDr Ranjit Dhenge -GSK\n \nDr. Ranjit Dhenge works as Investigator in the Product Development and Supply department of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) (Ware\, UK). He is also Associate Fellow at GSK.\nRanjit has completed a PhD at The University of Sheffield\, UK in 2012. After PhD\, he joined Nestle in York\, UK\, as a Product Technologist. He worked on extruded-confectionery product development using Continuous Twin Screw Extrusion. Before joining GSK in 2016\, Ranjit also was Post- Doctoral Researcher at The University of Sheffield (2014-16) where he was actively engaged in the research activities in the area of Continuous Pharmaceutical Granulation with special attention to process development. His current focus is on platform and process development of dry granulation operation (roller compaction). This involves developing small scale prediction tools\, modelling framework and application of tools into the projects. The work also involves technical troubleshooting and process de-risking \n\nDr Kai Lee-Pfizer\nKai is a Principal Scientist and is part of the Drug Product Design group based in Sandwich in the UK. His responsibility in Pfizer is to support the delivery of the company’s mid to late-stage R&D and marketed product portfolio. He is currently responsible for designing the formulation and the manufacturing process of oral solid dosage forms for the clinical and commercial drug product which includes transferring the process to the commercial manufacturing organization. His specialty and main interest area is drug product manufacturing science particularly on continuous processing for example continuous powder mixing technology\, continuous twin-screw wet granulation\, process analytical tools\, and the application of Big Data and process modelling to optimize the manufacturing process. Kai is a Chemical Engineer by training and he has obtained his BEng and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Birmingham. His Ph.D. research was on Continuous Twin Screw Granulation and using PEPT application to understand the granulation mechanism of the process. He joined Pfizer 6 years ago as a Process Scientist and is currently the SME of continuous processing. \nDr Jim Litster\, The University of Sheffield\nJim Litster is Vice President and Head of Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sheffield\, following previous academic appointments at Purdue University (2007-2015) and The University of Queensland (1987-2007). His research area is Particulate Products and Processes. His research focuses on production of particles and particulate delivery forms with well controlled size and morphology from sub-micron to millimeter scale using processes such as wet granulation\, crystallization and spherical agglomeration. He is an international leading expert on wet granulation with over 30 years experience in the field. Jim is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He has received several awards internationally for his work\, most recently the Geldart Medal on Particle Technology from the Institution of Chemical Engineers in 2017. \nDay 2-Wednesday 8th September 2021-12.30-17.15\nProgramme\n12.30-12.45 Welcome & Open Address \nDr Mark McAllister-Pfizer & APS Board Member \n12.45-13.45 Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Global COVID-19 Pandemic \nDr Brian Henry\, Vice President\, Medicinal Sciences\, Pfizer –Lightspeed development for new Covid-19 therapies \n13.45-14.45 Innovative Science Award \nRyan Donnelly– Queens University\, Belfast-“Poking holes in transdermal delivery limits to provide solutions to global healthcare challenges“ \n14.45-15.15 Networking\, Posters & Exhibitors  \n15.15-17.00 Parallel Science Session 1 \nTransdermal\, intradermal and topical drug delivery \n Chair-Dr Liam McAuley University of Hertfordshire \nSpeakers and talks \nDr Alejandro Paredes\, Queen’s University Belfast-Nanocrystals and microneedle technologies as a potent combination approach to deliver high doses of hydrophobic drugs to the skin \nDr Sebastian Braun LTS Lohmann-Microneedle translational development and scale-up and the path to market \nTwo short presentations selected from poster submissions. \n15.15-17.00 Parallel Science Session 2  \nAdvances in Cancer Therapeutics -United Kingdom & Ireland Controlled Release Society (UKICRS) \nChair-Dr Clare Hoskins\, University of Strathclyde. \nSpeakers and Talks \nDr Jonathan Coulter\, Queens University Belfast. -Development and pre-clinical validation of multi-functional radiosensitising nanoparticles – successes and challenges \nDr Yon Son Betty Kim\, MD Anderson Cancer Center.-Modulating the tumor microenvironment with nanomedicines  \nProfessor Steve Rannard\, University of Liverpool- Studying polymer nanoparticle design for SN-38 encapsulation and delivery \n17.00-17.15 Closing for the Day  \nDr Mark McAllister-Pfizer & APS Board Member \nInnovative Science Award Speaker-Professor Ryan Donnelly\nProfessor Ryan Donnelly\, Chair in Pharmaceutical Technology in the School of Pharmacy at Queen’s University Belfast \nProfessor Ryan Donnelly is a registered pharmacist. He holds the Chair in Pharmaceutical Technology in the School of Pharmacy at Queen’s University Belfast and is Director of the university’s interdisciplinary research programme Materials & Advanced Technologies for Healthcare\, comprising 58 academics from Pharmacy\, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering\, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering\, Biological Sciences\, Nursing and Medicine. His personal research is centred on design and physicochemical characterisation of advanced polymeric drug delivery systems for transdermal and intradermal drug delivery\, with a strong emphasis on improving patient outcomes. He is currently developing a range of novel microneedle technologies through independent research\, but also in collaboration with several major pharma partners. He has obtained substantial Research Council\, charity and industrial funding and authored over 400 peer-reviewed publications. \nProfessor Donnelly is Communications Chair of the Controlled Release Society and Europe/Africa Editor of Drug Delivery & Translational Research. His work has attracted numerous awards\, including Evonik’s Resomer Award (2018)\, the Controlled Release Society’s Young Investigator Award (2016)\, BBSRC Innovator of the Year and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Pharmaceutical Research Meritorious Manuscript Award (2013)\, the GSK Emerging Scientist Award (2012) and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Science Award (2011). \nWelcome\, open and closing address speaker -Dr Mark McAllister\nDr Mark McAllister-Pfizer & APS Board Member\nDr Mark McAllister is a Senior Scientific Director in the Drug Product Design group at Pfizer (Sandwich) with responsibility for mid-to-late stage development projects. He is a Pharmacy graduate from Queen’s University Belfast and has a pharmaceutics PhD from Aston University. Mark has over 25 years industrial development experience and has specialised in oral delivery systems and biopharmaceutics. He is a former chair of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and is currently a visiting senior lecturer at King’s College London. Mark co-led the IMI ‘OrBiTo’ project\, an academic/industrial collaboration\, developing the next generation of models to predict oral absorption. \nScience Sessions- Speakers and Chairs\n\nPharmaceutical Sciences and the Global COVID-19 Pandemic\nDr Brian Henry\,Medicinal Sciences\,Pfizer\, Sandwich UK\nThe Drug Product Design group is responsible for all small molecule Drug Product activities from molecular design in Research through to global registration and commercial launch.\nAfter my first degree in Pharmacy at the University of Manchester and a year working in community Pharmacy\, I completed a drug delivery based PhD at the University of Nottingham. I then spent two years working for GSK within a discovery drug metabolism environment before moving to Pfizer in Sandwich\, UK\, to set up a Pharmaceutical Sciences Discovery support group.\nI led the Research Pharmaceutical Sciences group and the Global Research Formulation Network providing formulation and drug delivery support to all programs from early Research through to PhII Proof of Concept clinical studies. I have also been the Pharmaceutical Sciences Research leader for the A&R\, Pain and GI/GU Research units and member of the Global Clinical Research leadership team. In addition\, I have led Pharmaceutical Science’s intellectual property activities and a technical leader for all merger and acquisition due diligence activities.\nI am also the UK lead for Medicinal Sciences and represent Pfizer on the EFPIA and ABPI Innovation boards\, the Medicines Manufacturing Industrial Partnership’s board and a Professor of Pharmaceutics at the University of Nottingham. \n15.15-17.00 Parallel Science Session 1 \nTransdermal\, intradermal and topical drug delivery\n Chair-Dr William (Liam)  McAuley University of Hertfordshire\nUniversity Of Hertfordshire Pharmaceutics staff portraits © Pete Stevens 2012 \nLiam is Head of the Centre for Research in Topical Drug Delivery and Toxicology (TDDT) at the University of Hertfordshire. A qualified pharmacist he gained his MPharm degree from Queen’s University Belfast followed by a split industry/hospital pre-registration placement with Whitehall International and Brighton General Hospital. After his pre-registration training\, Liam returned to Queen’s to undertake his PhD before taking up an EPSRC funded postdoctoral position at the School of Pharmacy\, University of London focussed on using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy to gain insight into penetration enhancement of drugs across skin. In 2008 Liam joined the University of Hertfordshire\, he became Head of Pharmaceutics in 2014 and took on his current role in 2019. \nLiam’s research interests largely focus on improving drug delivery to the skin\, understanding how the clinical use of topical formulations can impact on drug delivery and characterising the skin barrier. Examples of current projects in his group include evaluating the effect of emollients on the absorption of topical corticosteroids and understanding how sporting activity can affect the skin barrier. \nSpeakers and talks\nDr Sebastian Braun LTS Lohmann-Microneedle translational development and scale-up and the path to market\nSebastian Braun has worked in the field of transdermal and dermal drug delivery for 15 years. A molecular biologist with a PhD in analytical chemistry and molecular biology\, he started his career at a transdermal drug delivery company\, building a fundamental understanding of the biological workings of the skin. Spending the last 15 years at different transdermal and dermal drug delivery companies in various positions\, including head of formulation development\, head of manufacturing and head of science and technology\, he is now focused on microneedle development and manufacturing.  \n\n\n\n\nDr Alejandro Paredes\, Queen’s University Belfast-Nanocrystals and microneedle technologies as a potent combination approach to deliver high doses of hydrophobic drugs to the skin\n \nAlejandro J. Paredes graduated as a Pharmacist in 2011\, and as a PhD in 2016 from the National University of Córdoba\, Argentina\, where he also taught pharmaceutical sciences for 7 years. He obtained a PhD studentship from the Argentinean National Research Council\, where he also worked as a postdoctoral researcher for 2 years until 2019. During this stage\, he obtained national and international funds in competitive calls to visit the University of the Basque Country (Spain) and the University of Pavia (Italy) where he was involved within leading groups in gene therapy and wound healing\, respectively. In 2019 he started working as a Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast\, where he participated in multiple projects related to the transdermal administration of drugs using microneedle array patches. During his doctoral and postdoctoral works\, Dr Paredes worked intensively in improving the oral and transdermal absorption of poorly soluble drugs by means the formulation of drug nanocrystals. Alejandro is author and co-author of 2 patents\, 2 book chapters and 23 papers. Moreover\, he is a member of the Controlled Release Society\, the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UK) and the Society for Applied Microbiology (UK). In 2021\, he was appointed as a Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast\, where he focuses on the development of precisely engineered nanocrystals for tissue targeting.   \nTwo short presentations selected from poster submissions.\n15.15-17.00 Parallel Science Session 2 \nUnited Kingdom & Ireland Controlled Release Society (UKICRS) – Advances in Cancer Therapeutics\nChair- Dr Clare Hoskins\, University of Strathclyde\nDr Clare Hoskins is a Reader in the School of Pure and Applied Chemistry. She has published >50 peer reviewed articles and filed 1 patent. Her research has been supported with over £3M by national (e.g. EPSRC\, BBSRC/FAPESP\, Wellcome Trust) and international (e.g. Newton-Bhabha & British Council\, Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research) research funding. Clare is the Elected Secretary to the Royal Society of Chemistry\, Chemical Nanosciences and Nanotechnology Network\, she is a committee member of the UK and Ireland Controlled Release Society and she sits on the British Council Grant Review Panel for Newton Grants. In 2019 Clare was awarded the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences ‘Emerging Scientist’ sponsored by Pfizer and also the North Staffordshire Medical Institute Researcher Award. Clare sits on the editorial board of numerous journals in her field\, she leads a vibrant interdisciplinary research group within the them of Bionanotechnology and Analytical Chemistry within the Technology Innovation Centre. The focus of her research is the development of a range of multifunctional nanoparticles and their translation into medical therapies and agricultural products. \nSpeakers\nDr Jonathan Coulter\, Queens’ University\, Belfast.\nDr Coulter is a Reader working within the Nanomedicine and Biotherapeutics research group at the School of Pharmacy\, Queen’s University Belfast. His research has always had a focus on developing strategies to overcome treatment resistance in cancer\, with a specific focus on radiotherapy. His work has spanned approaches that include the use of suicide gene therapy and more recently exploiting the unique physical properties of high atomic number nanoparticles as radiosensitisers. Recent iterations have been developed as biologically active formulations\, designed to overcome tumour microenvironment properties which are known to confer treatment resistance\, in addition to the core particle acting as a radiation dose modifier. This presentation aims to outline some of the successes we have experienced in this space while looking to spark discussion around the key challenges that have limited clinical translation to date. ​ \n\nProfessor Steve Rannard-University of Liverpool\nSteve Rannard is a materials chemist and\, after 16 years in industry (Cookson\, Courtaulds\, Unilever)\, joined the University of Liverpool (UK) as a Professor of Chemistry in 2007. His medical research focuses materials science onto unmet clinical needs (oral\, long-acting and topical administration) through scalable nanoparticle platforms. In addition\, considerable non-clinical work targets the improvement usage and efficacy of poorly water-soluble compounds in a range of market sectors and the development of new polymer synthesis techniques. He has co-founded four start-up companies\, the recent Centre of Excellence for Long-acting Therapeutics (CELT Liverpool) and two national societies acting as a committee member for the Recent Appointees in Polymer Science (Macro Group UK) and vice-Chair of the British Society for Nanomedicine for nearly 10 years. Scientific recognition includes the RSC/Macro Group UK Young Researcher of the Year Medal (first recipient)\, sequential RSC Industrial Lectureships (Strathclyde\, ’01; Sussex\, ‘02)\, visiting Lectureship at the University of Sussex (‘99-‘01)\, visiting Professorship at the University of Liverpool (‘03-‘07) and a Royal Society Industry Fellowship (’05-‘09). He has co-authored >170 scientific publications and is co-inventor of >95 patent families (>150 national grants). His collaborative research funding (>£52m) since 2007 includes grants from MRC\, EPSRC (UKRI)\, NIH\, USAID\, Unitaid (WHO)\, CRUK\, CHAI\, BSAC and global industry. \nProfessor Betty Y.S. Kim\, UT – MD Anderson Cancer Center\, Houston \nAs a Neurosurgeon-Scientist\, Dr. Kim’s laboratory takes a multidisciplinary approach to the research of solid tumors with a specific focus on malignant primary and metastatic brain tumors. Her work has been published in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine\, Nature\, Nature Nanotechnology\, Nature Biomedical Engineering\, Nature Reviews Immunology and Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. Dr. Kim’s lab is interested in understanding the molecular cross-talk that occurs between tumor and stromal cells within the tumor immune-microenvironment\, while also developing multiple patented nanotherapeutic strategies to inhibit tumorigenesis. Her current research primarily focuses on finding new ways to promote immune recognition of brain tumor cells to boost the efficacies of cancer immunotherapies. \nDay 3-Thursday 9th September 2021-12.30-17.15\nProgramme\n12.30-12.45 Welcome & Open Address \nJo Craig-Chair of APS \n12.45-13.45 Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Global COVID-19 Pandemic \nCristiana Campa\, GSK- Development of COVID-19 vaccines during this pandemic situation \n13.45-14.45 Emerging Scientist Award \nLuis M Bimbo\, Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences\, United Kingdom and Faculty of Pharmacy\, University of Coimbra\, Portugal Inorganic carriers for drug delivery applications” \n14.45-15.15 Networking\, Posters & Exhibitors  \n15.15-17.00 Parallel Science Session 1 \nEmerging technologies in Drug Delivery – \norganised by the Emerging technologies APS Focus Group\n\nChair-Dimitrios Lamprou Queen’s University Belfast\n\nSpeakers and Talks \n\nProfessor Bice Conti-University of Pavia\, Italy.-Microfluidics as emerging technique in manufacturing polymer nanoparticles\n\nProfessor George Malliaras-University of Cambridge- Electrophoretic delivery in the brain\n\nProfessor Ricky Wildman-University of Nottingham-3D Printing: Dialling up the personalised dosage form\n15.15-17.00 Parallel Science Session 2  \nDigital Pharmaceutics – Opportunities and Challenges \nChair Dr Pankaj Doshi\, Pfizer \nSpeakers and Talks \nGavin Reynolds Astra Zeneca-Implementing digital twins to help us make more robust medicines for patients faster \nAna Ferreira BMS-Use of data science to support characterization and understanding of pharmaceutical material properties \nTwo presentations selected from the poster submissions \n17.00-17.15 Closing of the conference looking forward to PharmSci 2022  \nJo Craig -Chair of APS \nMartin Snowden- Conference Science Chair\, PharmSci 2021 \nProfessor Martin Snowden-Conference Science Chair-PharmSci 2022\nProfessor Martin Snowden PhD\, CChem FRSC\, PFHEA\nPro Vice-Chancellor\, Faculty of Engineering and Science\, University of Greenwich\nProfessor Martin Snowden is a member of the Vice-Chancellor’s Executive Group at the University of Greenwich. Martin provides overall leadership and strategic development to four major academic disciplines including Engineering\, Pharmacy\, Science and the Natural Resources Institute. He leads a team of over 200 academic staff\, providing a first class student experience to over 3000 on-campus students. Martin plays a leading role in representing the University in the London and South East of England region building key strategic links and partnerships. He also contributes to cross-University work in Teaching and Learning\, Martin chairs the University Student experience committee and has provided long term leadership to the University’s large and successful Transnational Education (TNE) programme. He has a distinguished track record of high quality published output in physical chemistry and pharmaceutical science\, total refereed outputs are over 100 (Google Scholar h-index 42). Martin is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an Eminent Fellow of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Martin has recently been invited to join the editorial board of the Q1 journal Polymers. Previous editorial board member of the American Chemical Society journal Langmuir. \nEmerging Scientist Award Speaker-Luis M Bimbo\nLuis M Bimbo\, Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences\, United Kingdom and Faculty of Pharmacy\, University of Coimbra\, Portugal  \nDr. Luis M. Bimbo is an Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Coimbra Portugal\, an Adjunct Professor in Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology at the University of Helsinki\, Finland\, and a Visiting Researcher at the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS)\, University of Strathclyde\, UK. Prior to this\, he spent three years as a Chancellor’s Research Fellow and Lecturer in Drug Delivery at the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences\, University of Strathclyde\, UK\, where he developed work on novel engineered materials for the formulation of advanced drug delivery systems\, such as porous silicon and porous polymers\, supramolecular hydrogels\, and drug nanocrystals\, attracting over £420\,000 in external funding. He is the recipient of the 2020 Emerging Scientist Award from the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the UK\, the 2012 Albert Wuokko Award to a Young Researcher from the Finnish Pharmaceutical Society (Finland’s most prestigious pharmaceutical award to a young researcher) and the 2014 International Award for the Most Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in the Pharmaceutical Sciences by the International Association of Pharmaceutical Technology (APV). \nScience session- Speakers and Chairs\nPharmaceutical Sciences and the Global COVID-19 Pandemic\nCristiana Campa\, GSK- Development of COVID-19 vaccines during this pandemic situation\nGSK Fellows Summit 2019 \nCristiana Campa\, PhD\, is currently a Technical R&D Advisor and Fellow at GSK Vaccines\, with more than 20 years’ experience in biologics and related analytical and development strategies\, gained in different universities and companies. She joined Novartis Vaccines in 2006\, focusing on development\, validation and transfer of analytical methods for release and characterization of several vaccine products\, first as senior manager and then as Head of Analytical Development\, Italy. Since 2012\, Cristiana has worked on Quality by Design (QbD) principles implementation for vaccines. After acquisition of Novartis Vaccines by GSK in 2015\, she has been the Head of QbD Integration and\, until June 2018\, the Head of Science and Development Practices in Technical R&D\, covering QbD implementation\, Knowledge Management and Development roadmaps. \n\n\n\n15.15-17.00 Parallel Science Session 1\nDigital Pharmaceutics – Opportunities and Challenges\n Chair- Dr Pankaj Doshi\, Pfizer.\n \nPankaj Doshi is currently the head of process modeling in the Drug Product Design department at Pfizer Inc. He has been leading the digital design of continuous and batch processes used in the manufacturing of drug product. He has published 40 papers and delivered over 50 presentations. Pankaj received his PhD in chemical engineering from Purdue University in 2003\, which was followed by a postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interest includes application of computational techniques like CFD\, DEM and PBM to the modeling and scale-up of pharmaceutical processes and unit operations. He started his industrial career at GSK where he developed computational model for dry powder inhaler. This was followed by an academic stint at National Chemical Laboratory\, Pune\, where he led a group of graduate students to develop models for liquid and powder flows \n\n\nSpeakers\nProf. Gavin Reynolds- Pharmaceutical Technology and Development\, Operations\, AstraZeneca\nGavin Reynolds is a Principal Scientist at AstraZeneca and a Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield.  His interests include applying mechanistic modelling and simulation to pharmaceutical processes and developing process understanding.  He is a Fellow of the IChemE\, and has authored over 80 peer-reviewed publications. \n\n\n\nAna Patricia Ferreira\, Scientific Associate Director\, Bristol-Myers Squibb\, Drug Product Development\, Global Product Development and Supply\n \nAna is a data scientist with over 15 years of experience in the application of multivariate analysis in the pharmaceutical industry spanning small- and large-molecule applications both in R&D and manufacturing. Ana’s main role with BMS is to extract information from material characterization data sets to support product teams in the design and troubleshooting of formulations. She has published papers on the use of multivariate analysis for extraction of information from large data sets spanning diverse topics such as near-infrared spectroscopy\, process analysis\, and material characterization and co-edited a book about the applications of Multivariate Analysis in the Pharmaceutical Industry. \n\n15.15-17.00 Parallel Science Session 2\nEmerging Technologies in Drug Delivery \n Chair-Dr Dimitrios Lamprou Queen’s University Belfast\nDimitrios Lamprou is the first Chair of the Emerging technologies Focus Group\, which was established in March 2021 with the aim to bring together scientists interested in the field of Emerging Technologies and bridging the gap between industry and academia in this exciting field. From the beginning of my career\, I always had a strong interested in Drug Delivery & Emerging Technologies\, and finally now with APS FG we have a “home” to bring all these Emerging Technologies in one FG and work towards the development of drug delivery systems and medical devices that were not possible to produce a few years ago. \nI am the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications\, have over 200 conference abstracts\, given over 100 Oral/Invited Talks\, and I have secure Funding in excess of £2M. My research and academic leadership have recognised in a range of awards\, including the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Science Award and the Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance Leaders Scheme Award. My research Lab is applying Nano and Microfabrication Techniques (e.g.\, 3D Printing & Bioprinting\, Electrospinning\, and Microfluidics) in the Manufacturing of Drug Delivery Systems\, Medical Devices & Implants. For more info please follow the link \nSpeakers\nProfessor Bice Conti-Univerity of Pavia\, Italy.\nBice Conti\, is currently full professor of pharmaceutics at the Department of Drug Sciences\, University of Pavia. She got MSc in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology and postgraduate degree in Industrial Pharmacy. She spent two years as postdoc at the College of Pharmacy\, University of Kentucky\, USA\, she was associate professor firstly at the University of Catania\, Italy\, and then at the University of Pavia\, Italy\, and she is presently full professor at the School of Pharmacy of the University of Pavia. She an organizer of the European Master Joint Master Degree Nanomedicine for drug delivery (NANOMED). Her scientific researcher focus on drug delivery and tissue engineering. More recently\, her research focuses on design and development of drug loaded polymer nanoparticles as well as on biodegradable polymer scaffolds for tissue regeneration\, their processing and physicochemical characterization. She has several collaborations with Italian and international academics\, and with pharmaceutical and medical devices companies such as Ceva-Vetem (Agrate Brianza\, Italy)\, Rottapharm Biotec (Monza\, Italy)\, US-WorldMeds (Louisville\, USA)\, Geistlich Pharma AG (Root-Langenbold CH). She is a member of International scientific associations and Italian: CRS\, AAPS\, AFI\, ADRITELF. She was President of CRS Italian Chapter from 2014 to 2016. \nProfessor George Malliaras\, University of Cambridge\nGeorge Malliaras is the Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge. He received a PhD from the University of Groningen\, the Netherlands and did a postdoc at the IBM Almaden Research Center\, USA. Before joining Cambridge\, he was a faculty member at Cornell University in the USA\, where he also served as the Director of the Cornell NanoScale Facility\, and at the School of Mines in France. His research has been recognized with awards from the New York Academy of Sciences\, the US National Science Foundation\, and DuPont\, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Linköping in Sweden. He is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society and of the Royal Society of Chemistry and serves as Deputy Editor of Science Advances. \n\n\nProfessor Ricky Wildman\, University of Nottingham.\nRicky Wildman is a Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Nottingham. He focuses on developing new understanding of how additive manufacturing / 3D printing works\, and how it can be used to deliver new function\, particularly in the area of healthcare. His interests are in developing methods to rapidly identify materials suitable for 3D printing and in how form and structure can be manipulated systematically using computational algorithms to identify optimal function.
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