The 2020 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo will be ISPE’s first completely virtual Annual Meeting. As always, there will be great learning and networking opportunities—in fact, the digital format offers greater flexibility for attendees.
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...
Vaccine development is an intricate undertaking, which may involve numerous challenges from the initial process of identifying an antigen to the final steps of delivering and administering the licensed product. The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on the science of vaccine development. As the world awaits a vaccine for the coronavirus, manufacturers face unprecedented pressure to respond...
This article updates a 2006 Pharmaceutical Engineering® Online Exclusive article titled “Avian Flu—Is My Company Prepared?” by Wendy Haines and Martin Rock.1
When faced with large-scale disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergency and business continuity plans of drug manufacturers and event-specific actions of health authorities may not always be sufficient to prevent shortages of critical medical products. However, early, transparent engagement with health authorities is a powerful opportunity for drug manufacturers to...
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 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...
The ISPE Young Professionals Hackathon, which has become an annual event run in conjunction with the ISPE Europe Annual Conference, brings together some of the brightest, most inquisitive young engineers...
More than 800 attendees met in Dublin, Ireland, on 1–4 April for the 2019 ISPE Europe Annual Conference—a new record attendance for this conference! Participants at ISPE’s sixth Europe conference learned about...
As members of the Architecture Team of the ISPE Pharma 4.0™ Plug & Produce Initiative, we would like to share the principles we have developed with the broader life sciences community. Our aim is to foster further exchange and...
ISPE’s initiative to transform industry-generic 4.0 models for pharma operations will help the industry benefit from digitalization.
The ISPE Advancing Pharmaceutical Quality (APQ) team is developing a framework by which a company can assess its maturity in relation to quality culture, operational excellence, and ICH Q10 elements, using the CAPA system as the focus of the pilot.
ISPE Quality Culture Team members share key concepts represented in the Six Dimensions of Cultural Excellence framework.
The basic framework of the program is to "assess and aspire" quality maturity.
This year's Europe Annual Meeting in Rome featured YP track leads, YP keynote speakers Caroline Rocks and Robert Landertingera.
In March 2018, more than 640 attendees met in Rome for the 2018 Europe Annual Conference.
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