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NEWS AND CALENDAR 2009
April 23, 2009 Upcoming
Industrial
Advisory Committee Meeting
Batch Manufacturing of
Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals (BMPC) Industrial Advisory
Committee (IAC) Meetings bring together established
Consortium members and company representatives
interested in membership to discuss the Consortium's
current research program, make suggestions for new
projects, and establish the budgets and activities.
Please contact either
Professor Georgakis or
Nancy Lyons
if you are interested in learning more about the BMPC
and attend our meetings.
October 29, 2009
Upcoming
Industrial
Advisory Committee Meeting
2008
Publications and
Presentations
December
9, 2008 Systems Engineering Seminar
Professor Sangtae Kim, Donald W. Feddersen
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and
Chemical Engineering Purdue University and Executive
Director Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, WI
is the first speaker in
a series of Systems Seminars. His presentation was titled: "Cyberinfrastructure and the 'Network of Things': Creating Economic Curvature in a Flat World".
November 17, 2008 AIChE Annual
Meeting
Foteini Makrydaki and Daniel Hines presented their work
at the AIChE annual meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. Foteini
Makrydaki's presentation was "Generalized Tendency Kinetic
Modeling for the Rapid Modeling and Optimization of
Pharmaceutical Processes: The Case of Asymmetric
Catalytic Hydrogenation". The title of Daniel
Hines' work was "Developing Patient Specific Pharmacokinetic
Models: Population Pharmacokinetic Analysis of Triazolam".
October 30, 2008
Industrial
Advisory Committee Meeting
This meeting
was comprised of
consortium industrial representatives from notable
pharmaceutical firms , SRI students and Tufts Chemical Engineering
faculty who presented and exchanged technical ideas
about Batch Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals and
Chemicals. Graduate students presented an update of
their current research and our new PhD candidate
presented his work on "Optimizing Complex
Crystallizations using Data-Driven and Reduced-Order
Knowledge-Driven Models". Two new Systems Research
Institute undergraduate students presented their
preliminary findings from their Senior honor's theses.
May 29, 2008
Industrial
Advisory Committee Meeting
This meeting brought together current and potential consortium
industrial representatives from top-name pharmaceutical
companies , SRI students and Tufts Chemical Engineering
faculty to present and exchange technical ideas about
Batch Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals.
Dr. David AmEnde, an Associate Research Fellow at Pfizer
provided the opening keynote, “Process Modeling
Approaches in Pharmaceutical Development”. A series of
presentations from the Institute's students showcased
leading edge research projects. Dr. Georgakis
spoke on his recent research on the
power of Dynamic Design of Experiments (DDoX)and Dr. Botsaris addressed the
topic of Embryo Coagulation.
2007
Publications and
Presentations
December 13,
2007
Industrial
Advisory Committee Meeting
BMPC presented its first
Progress Report on Batch Manufacturing of
Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals at the fifth meeting of
the IAC on December 13, 2007. Despite competing with
the first major snow storm of the season, we had a
successful and informative get-together. David Vinson
from Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. gave the keynote
presentation entitled "A Novel Systematic Approach to
Quantify the Design and Operational Spaces of
Pharmaceutical Processes" which the members found both
interesting and informative.
April 25,
2007
Industrial Advisory Committee Meeting
SRI students provided
updates on the Consortium’s research program which aims
to develop process understanding and modeling
methodologies to both reduce the time the manufacturing
process currently takes, and to facilitate the speedy
implementation of the PAT initiative for all
manufacturing plants. Participants were encouraged to
give their comments and suggestions on the student’s
research as well as their ideas for new research
projects that they would find beneficial.
Professor
Georgakis Elected Fellow of International Federation
of Automatic Control (IFAC)
2006 Publications and Presentations
October 24, 2006 Industrial
Advisory Committee Meeting
This
meeting, composed of Consortium member and company
representatives interested in exploring membership,
successfully crystallized (no pun intended!) the
Consortium's research program.
We were also thrilled to welcome our newest Consortium
member, Sepracor Inc.
July 2006
"Mathematical Models of Chemical
Processes",
C. Georgakis Tufts Research News.
Read the article here!
May 24, 2006 Industrial
Advisory Committee Meeting
The SRI Industrial Consortium on Batch Manufacturing of
Pharmaceuticals and Chemical (BMPC) launched its
operations with the first Industrial Advisory Committee
meeting on Thursday May 25, 2006. The purpose of this
meeting was to develop the Consortium's specific research program and industrial membership
The meeting began with a series of presentations from
the Institute's graduate students (see above photo)
to
provide an overview of current research projects to the
committee. The afternoon was spent in an open forum
brainstorming session to develop specific research
topics for Ph.D. theses to be supported by the
Consortium. The event was a success, and we anticipate a
bright future for the Consortium.
March 8, 2006
Industrial
Advisory Committee Meeting
SRI's spring meeting explored the benefits a company
would receive by joining the consortium. Research
leading to designing more efficient processes would
enhance the speed of development and contribute to more
efficient plant operations. The consortium would bring
together the often separate worlds of industry and
academia by promoting a cooperative effort between the
two. Professor Georgakis gave a brief history of his
extensive and successful experience with an
Industry-University Cooperative Consortium at Lehigh
University. This consortium included more than 30
companies and resulted in over 100 research papers.
Membership in the consortium would enable individual
companies to leverage their funds, jointly define
research with faculty, obtain frequent briefings on
research, and provide a place for a technical exchange
among industrial representatives.
2005
June 27, 2005
Industrial
Advisory Committee Meeting
The first meeting of the proposed consortium between
industry and academia,
represented
by the Systems Research Institute for Chemical and
Biological Processes was held today, 6/27/05. The
purpose of the meeting was to define the mission of the
research program, obtain feedback from representatives
of industry, and delineate the operational
characteristics of the program. Dr. Paul Barton from M.I.T. gave a stimulating discussion entitled
“Simulation, Sensitivity Analysis, and Optimization to
Accelerate the Development of Pharmaceutical Processes”.
Dr. Roger Bakale from Sepracor, Dr. John Lepore from
Merck, and Dr. Jason Mustakis from Pfizer explained how
such a collaboration would benefit industry. The first
meeting of the IDC will be held on May 15. Its purpose
will be to define the initial research program.
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