Special Report: 2019 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo

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^®.