Aaron Bober is an active member of ISPE, the ISPE Women in Pharma® Boston Chapter, and the ISPE Women in Pharma International Steering Committee. He is based in the Boston, Massachusetts, area and serves as the Director of Engineering, New England, at IPS. Bober developed the below testimonial, recounting his personal experience and investment in supporting women in the pharmaceutical industry...

With well over a century of history and change, the first International Women's Day was held in March 1911. International Women's Day is a day of collective global activism and celebration that belongs to all those committed to forging women's equality.

In the pharmaceutical industry, which is highly regulated, aseptic processing is a critical component that ensures the sterility of products. Regulators have a set of comprehensive requirements that minimize the risk of contamination. Regulators set the requirements; however, the industry has an obligation to the patients who rely on and expect a drug that is safe and free of contamination....

Like any investment in digital manufacturing systems, demonstrating business payback before and after investment is critical to getting MES projects approved and verifying profitability after investment. Whether it is introducing MES, expanding it to additional sites, switching software, upgrading existing software, or developing electronic production records (EPR) for new drug products,...

Sustainability is emerging as a pivotal force influencing the pharmaceutical industry’s dynamics and steering companies towards transformative change. The focus of this analysis is to delve into the sustainability key performance indicators (KPIs) of prominent pharmaceutical players, namely Pfizer, Sanofi, Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK), Becton Dickinson, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott, Eli Lilly, and...

ISPE’s Women in Pharma^® community prides itself on endorsing equal opportunity for equal effort. Through global and regional programming, the community creates opportunities to shift company cultures and mindsets to create a more inclusive and equitable industry, where diversity of thought thrives.

Annex 1 has been in effect since August 2023. But what has been its impact? This topic will be discussed at the 2024 ISPE  Aseptic Conference in Vienna, Austria and virtually. Speakers from both industry and...

ISPE members came together to ask questions about ISPE Communities of Practice (CoPs) in a live session hosted by Tim Postlethwaite, Director of Technical Communities with ISPE, and Anna Riley, Member Operations Manager with ISPE.

In 2020, CSL Behring (CSL) initiated a benchmarking activity with a small group of peer companies identified through ISPE and the members of the ISPE Supply Chain, Operations, and Packaging (SCOPE) Community of Practice (CoP) Steering Committee to explore creation and maturation of Asset Management programs at each company. The initial sessions were a success, covering topics such as Asset...

The 2024 ISPE Facilities of the Future Conference will be held on January 29-30, 2024, in San Francisco, CA, USA, and virtually. This conference brings together pharmaceutical industry stakeholders,...

The 2024 ISPE Aseptic Conference will offer a glimpse into the best discussions on the future of aseptic manufacturing. Attendees will learn how optimization is evolving both in the form of digitalization and in...

The 2024 ISPE Facilities of the Future Conference brings more than 130 years of experience and insights from the six keynote speakers alone. GSK’s Carlos Santiago and Genentech’s Christian Randecker provided preliminary insights into what Facility/Factory and Workforce of the Future means to them as well as their greatest successes and challenges as they prepare their teams for that future....

Each year at the ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo, ISPE bestows the ISPE International Honor Awards on a select group of individuals and groups who have gone above and beyond to support ISPE. The Affiliate and Chapter...

The ISPE International Honor Awards program serves as a platform to celebrate the dedication and excellence of our members and their contributions to the pharmaceutical industry. The prestigious 2023 ISPE International Honor Award for Committee of the Year recognizes the remarkable achievements of ISPE's committees, councils, task teams, or communities of practice steering committees.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the landscape of cell and gene therapy (CGT) manufacturing has witnessed significant transformation. The industry has seen an increased emphasis on the advantages of advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) and the push for increases in manufacturing scale and overall availability to larger populations. ATMPs find themselves at a critical juncture where...

What is the Route to Successful ATMP Cleanroom Development?

Mitch Gonzales, Vice President of Process Technology and Grant Merrill, Chief Commercial Officer at AES Clean Technology, explore the unique aseptic processing needs of advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) and explain the ideal pathway to successful cleanroom design for this class of therapies.

The ISPE Facility of the Future Conferences can feel like a crystal ball looking into the future . Year after year, speakers have presented what the future of the industry may look like, and then, in subsequent years, speakers will present how they have implemented that future. It is remarkable to see the future come to fruition and learn how others are navigating it. One of the greatest...

At the 2023 ISPE Pharma 4.0™ & Annex 1 Conference in Barcelona, Spain and virtual, Track #6 will focus on