The ISPE community is saddened by the passing of James (Jim) O'Brien, a founding member of ISPE and a luminary in the field of pharmaceutical engineering. Jim was a recognized expert in the design and engineering of pharmaceutical facilities, whose profound influence has shaped our industry.
Having a universal and uniform Common Technical Document (CTD) for all markets, major and emerging, is an aspiration of all pharmaceutical companies. As markets become more familiar with the CTD, especially the quality portion, some drug regulatory agencies are requesting more regional/local documents and customization to CTD documents in accordance with their local interpretation and...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines were one of the drug products recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) to fight the pandemic. The majority of regulators have flexed their local regulatory requirements to bring vaccines to the market with as much supply flexibility as possible, including emerging markets which typically have challenging local requirements that a marketing...
This blog summarizes a presentation by Rick Friedman, Deputy Director of the US FDA Office of Manufacturing Quality, on 17 April 2024 at the 2024 ISPE Europe Annual Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. The...
One of the keynote sessions of the 2024 ISPE Europe Annual Conference held 16-18 April in Lisbon, Portugal was a presentation on EU initiatives to advance digitalization in manufacturing by Evdokia...
ISPE connected with Sydney Hamilton, Strategic Facility Planner, CRB, and Scott McNallan, Director of Architectural Design, CRB, for a sneak peek look at their planned session, “Blank Slate to Building Excellence,” ahead of the 2024 ISPE Biotechnology Conference. The conference will take place 17-18 June 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
It becomes clear that a topic has become mainstream when it crosses multiple Communities of Practice and areas of interest. In preparation for the 2024 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo, the Digital Transformation track committee worked closely with multiple teams from other tracks on the topic of artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) to identify the best...
