A schedule of events for Control Strategies for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Real Time Release Testing and Design Space Determination is provided below for your convenience.

This one-day conference scheduled for Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy is open to the public. For a printable agenda, please download the conference brochure.

TimePresentation
10:00-10:10 a.m. Meeting Overview
Stephen Hoag, PhD
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Director, Good Manufacturing Practice Facility
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
10:10-10:40 a.m. Overview of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Control
Christine Moore, PhD
Acting Director, Office of New Drug Quality Assessment
Food and Drug Administration
10:40-11:20 a.m. Case Study Strategy for Developing A New Drug Product for Real Time Release and Regulatory Requirements
Raafat Fahmy, PhD
Science Advisor
Food and Drug Administration
11:20-12:00 p.m. Developing the Control Strategy for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Across Scales of Manufacturing
Stephen Hoag, PhD
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Director, Good Manufacturing Practice Facility
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch Will Be Provided
1:00-1:40 p.m. Statistical Methods for Establishing the Design Space and Conrol Within Design Space
Gregg Claycamp, PhD
Senior Scientist, Risk Analysis and Decision Analysis
Food and Drug Administration
1:40-2:20 p.m. Industrial Perspective on the Use of Models in the QbD Framework
Christian Airiau, PhD
Chemometrician, Manager
GlaxoSmithKline
2:20-3:00 p.m. Industry Experiences in Launching, Managing, and Transferring A Real-Time Release Testing Method Globally from 2006 to Today
Gert Thurau, PhD
Director, Process Analytical Technology (PAT)
Merck
3:00-3:15 p.m. Break
3:15-4:00 p.m. Speaker Breakout Session
Discussion of Key Issues:
  • Link between science of controlling a process and real time experience and testing
  • Steps needed to prove control and RTRT using PAT technology