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Twenty-four hours of sessions, mentor circles, book clubs and more with ISPE Women in Pharma® (WIP) took place on 27–28 October. The event had almost 160 registrations for the virtual event, which brought together ISPE members around the world for interactive opportunities to learn and exchange...

Honorable Mention recognizes projects that did not win a specific category but were clearly successful projects that overcame significant challenges in planning, execution, and delivery.

GlaxoSmithKline is the 2020 Facility of the Year Award Winner for Social Impact for their Attachment Inhibitor (AI) Project in Parma, Italy.

United Therapeutics is the 2020 Facility of the Year Award Winner for Social Impact for their Dinutuximab-Dedicated Oncology Medical and Analytical Laboratory in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Bristol-Myers Squibb is the 2020 Facility of the Year Award Winner for Project Execution for their Multi-Purpose Cell Culture (MPCC) in Cruiserath, County Dublin, Ireland.

Janssen Pharmaceuticals is the 2020 Facility of the Year Award Winner for Process Innovation for their Mirror 1: A Continuous Manufacturing Platform in Beerse, Belgium.

Eli Lilly and Company is the 2020 FOYA Category Winner for Operational Excellence for their Lilly Innovation Development Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.

There is a real advantage in opening up and confiding in someone. Being vulnerable can be a superpower, but it does not mean that you should trust everyone with everything. It also does not mean that you should always emotionally charged break downs....

Sanofi is the 2020 Facility of the Year Award Winner for Facility of the Future for their Sanofi Digitally Enabled Integrated Continuous Biomanufacturing Facility in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Pfizer, Inc. is the 2020 Facility of the Year Award Winner for Facility Integration for their Andover Clinical Manufacturing Facility (ACMF) in Andover, Massachusetts.

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. is the 2020 Facility of the Year Award Category Winner for Equipment Innovation for their B098: Setting the new standards for an in vivo building in Basel, Switzerland.

When Women in Pharma® (WIP) at ISPE was first launched at the 2016 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, it was after a few previous attempts mainly as a female-centric gathering. In Atlanta, we officially started talking about the professional issues that are...

What are the Short & Long-term Challenges that Pharma Supply Chain, Operations, and Packaging Need to Address? In a year where speed has become a critical component of the pharmaceutical industry’s mission, the SCOPE track at the 2020 ISPE Annual...

The environmental impact of “single-use plastics” has become a hot topic of societal and political debate. Despite the many technological advantages and innovations that plastic has enabled, it is now under closer scrutiny, especially those massively...

Process validation (PV) aims at reassuring a manufacturer of constant product quality. Moreover, it is a regulatory requirement to achieve licensure of a pharmaceutical product Failing to efficiently plan and execute activities here leads to increased...

Featured in this edition of iSpeak Reading Roundup, are the top blog posts from September 2020. Discover key insights for cleaning validation practices, risk-based approaches to quality, and more for what the pharmaceutical industry was reading last...

The ISPE Advancing Pharmaceutical Quality (APQ) Program has been developed by industry representatives, for industry use, to advance the current state of pharmaceutical quality by providing practical tools and approaches to enhance the effectiveness of...

The needs of patients must always be at the forefront of what we do.