FOYA Program

Each year, the ISPE FOYA competition recognizes a facility for its social impact. As the world continues to take on the challenges associated with a once-in-a-century pandemic, it is more than appropriate that we recognize the Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO) in Thailand for its social impact, as the facility manufactures vaccines and expands affordable access to life-saving medication.
ElevateBio Location: Waltham, MA, USA Project: ElevateBio BaseCamp The goal of ElevateBio’s BaseCamp project was to tackle some of the obstacles that prevent cell and gene therapies from rapidly being available to...
Takeda Pharmaceuticals International AG Location: Grange Castle, Ireland Project: NINLARO The Grange Castle Factory P2 Facility Takeda, founded in 1781, is a patient-driven, R&D focused pharmaceutical company with...
News & Press Releases
03 November 2020
ISPE has announced Sanofi as the 2020 Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) Overall Winner at the 2020 FOYA Banquet during the virtual 2020 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo . Sanofi was awarded the 2020 FOYA Facility of the Future Category Award in April 2020...
Special Reports

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...

iSpeak Blog

COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented change and disruption to each of our daily lives. All of us around the world are touched by the current pandemic, whether it be personal hardship or professional life challenges. We have seen our communities and our industry rally to work together for the good of public health and humanity. Our ISPE family is no different; several of our local...

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Technology and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry are more critical now than ever before as healthcare worldwide is straining from the COVID-19 pandemic. Even in these trying times, it is important to spotlight...
News & Press Releases
07 April 2020
ISPE announced today the 2020 Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) Category Winners—including two winners of the inaugural Social Impact Category Award. Awardees include: F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd ( Equipment Innovation ) Pfizer, Inc. ( Facility...
Learn about the two companies winning the Honorable Mention category for the 2020 Facility of the Year Awards: Janssen Pharmaceutical Boehringer Ingelheim Biopharmaceuticals China Ltd. Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of...
Learn about the two companies winning the Social Impact category for the 2020 Facility of the Year Awards: GlaxoSmithKline United Therapeutics GlaxoSmithKline Location: Parma, Italy Project: Attachment Inhibitor (AI)...