The 2019 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo plenary featured a global regulatory town hall addressing a wide range of information about trends in regulations and other developments in the pharmaceutical industry. The town hall format offered attendees the chance to ask a panel of regulators about issues such as harmonization initiatives and information sharing among industry members and regulators. As Sara Pope Miksinski, PhD, Senior Director of Global Regulatory Affairs at AstraZeneca and session leader noted, “Big-picture thinking is the idea of this town hall.”
The first ISPE Global Hackathon was held at the 2019 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo with six teams and 36 participants, including 19 undergraduate students, 11 graduate students, and 6 Young Professionals (YPs). Three members of the winning team, Team 4, named Team Mini Xoom, shared insights about their Hackathon experience with Pharmaceutical Engineering®.
Sarah-Catherine Dannelly is a Project Manager, Sales, with GEMÜ Valves, Inc. After graduating from Georgia Institute of Technology as a Biomedical Engineer, she joined GEMÜ...
Elice Kitchen-McKinley will receive a bachelor of science in bioprocessing sciences with a minor in biomanufacturing from North Carolina State University this year. She is...
Phuong (Sophie) Le is a PharmD graduate from the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, Twin Cities campus, and a member of the AMCP-UMN Chapter...
In 2020, the world was grappling with how to slow the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and appropriately treat people who had the COVID-19 infection without approved therapies or vaccines. In two years, there are multiple vaccines and treatments along with great knowledge about the virus—and about how the industry mobilized, partnered, and achieved tremendous strides in addressing the global...
Operation Warp Speed coordinated US government support of the pharmaceutical industry’s effort to develop and deliver vaccines and therapeutics across the United States to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. This article provides an inside look at the work done by this team to address the threat posed by COVID-19.
Each year, ISPE celebrates innovations and advances in pharmaceutical manufacturing technology with its Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) program. This year, we added a new category, Social Impact, to recognize companies that developed new standards and practices to prevent drug shortages and increase patients’ access to medicine, designed new tools or techniques that reduced the cost of drug...