The KCMC New Materials: Fundamental to Growth Event takes place on Thursday 5th December in London, UK.

The UK is driving innovation in key industrial sectors and strengthening supply chains by harnessing the power of world leading research in chemistry and advanced materials to develop the new materials of the future. New Materials: Fundamental to Growth will demonstrate how collaborative R&D enabled by the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry is delivering economic impact in a number of key UK industry sectors.

Professor Alastair Florence, CMAC Director, will be attending this event.

The 1st Winter Process Chemisry Conference will take place on 16th - 19th December 2013 in Leeds, UK

The Winter Process Conference will consist of presentations from international chemists and chemical engineers covering all aspects of Process Development. The speakers will discuss the latest issues in synthetic route design, development and optimisation, reactor design, work up and purification, crystallisation, process engineering, hazard studies, and quality and regulatory issues. The presentations will be from either speakers within the chemical industry or academics with a strong link to industrial process development, so the material presented will be of particular relevance to all chemists and engineers in industry, as well as graduate students considering a career in industry.

Professor Alastair Florence, CMAC Director, will be presenting at this event.

Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington (near Manchester), UK
19th - 20th December 2013

There are great technological and research opportunities in fluid systems that lie right at the edge of our current understanding and simulation capabilities. Non-continuum and multiscale fluid dynamics can be critical in micro and nano systems, erosive and slurry flows, icing and freezing, droplet and bubbly flows, liquid crystals, granular, suspension, colloids, complex fluids and micro-multiphase systems, low-density and near-vacuum systems, and high-speed aerospace flows. In order to harness this fluid dynamics for technological advances there are still many issues to resolve in the thermofluids engineering - from the fundamental simulation of fluid flow and heat transfer, to the optimisation of design for fabrication. This meeting is designed to act as a focus for future collaboration, research and development of non-continuum and multiscale flow systems.

University of Cambridge, UK

The production of speciality chemicals is still heavily reliant on batch processes, particularly in the pharma sector, and this symposium will highlight recent developments focussed on the growth of continuous processes in the fine and speciality chemicals and pharma industries. Topics to include: Continuous crystallisation; Comparison of batch and continuous processes; Scale up of exothermic and hazardous chemistry; Continuous flow technology for the Pharma Industry; Continuous flow reactors and equipment on a production scale; Real-time monitoring in continuous flow; End-to-end supply chains.

Durham University, UK

As in previous years, the course will offer a combination of lectures covering the theoretical aspects of powder diffraction and Rietveld refinement, problem sessions/tutorials and extensive hands-on practical sessions using a variety of modern software packages.

Crystallography @ 100: Looking to the future, learning from the past
Loughborough University, UK

The 2014 Spring Meeting will follow the successful format used in recent years with the traditional Young Crystallographers’ satellite meeting on Monday 7 April, followed by the main meeting starting at lunchtime on Tuesday 8 April with the final session finishing at lunchtime on Thursday 10 April.

16th-17th April 2014, AstraZeneca, Alderley Park, Cheshire

Two day event for undergraduate and postgraduate students exploring opportunities in the pharmaceutical industry and hosted at one of Europe’s most advanced pharmaceutical sciences facilities.

http://www.apsgb.co.uk/events/20140416/Programme.asp

International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing, Cardiff, Wales, UK.

The conference encompasses a broad spectrum of sustainable design and manufacturing related subjects. This includes sustainable products and processes, sustainable manufacturing systems and enterprises, decision support tools for sustainability.

1st-2nd May, Teddington, UK

A Workshop Organised by the National Physical Laboratory and the EPSRC Directed Assembly Grand Challenge Network

An intensive, cross-disciplinary, two-day workshop bringing together delegates from NPL, academia and industry, promoting discussion and tackling questions around how we can observe, measure and control the processes by which molecules assemble to make functional materials.

6th-9th May 2014, Barcelona Spain

EUROPACT 2014 is the third European Conference on Process Analytics and Control Technology. The conference will cover new technologies in process analytics, the implementation of these technologies in various fields and the transformation of data into knowledge. The conference will be supported by an exhibition of instrumentation, applications and data evaluation tools.

EUROPACT 2014 provides a meeting and a discussion forum for scientists and users of process analytics from academia and industry. The conference programme will include plenary lectures and discussion during poster sessions. One day of Pre-Conference Courses (May 6) will provide a good introduction to the field for newcomers and advance the knowledge of existing practitioners.

19th - 21st May 2014, Orlando Florida

Although production of new polymorphs and solvates can be a source of profit for companies through extension of the patent lifetime, the inability to manufacture a consistent crystalline form often leads to costly project delays, particularly in chemical development.

This conference will focus on these issues from the viewpoint of the process chemist and chemical engineer; i.e. on chemical development issues which impact the ability to routinely manufacture the chosen crystalline form, whether this be the most stable or a metastable crystal.

19th - 22th May, Beijing China

WCPT7 WCPT7 is intended to stimulate discussions on the forefront of research in particle science and technology. The conference will focus on fundamentals of particle science & engineering, particle processing technologies, particulate product engineering, characterization and measurement techniques for particles and particulate systems, as well as modeling and simulation of particle systems. We sincerely hope that the scope of the congress will serve the interest of the scientific community, as well as the industry and the general public. I wish to extend my welcome to all participants and sponsors.

20th - 21st May 2014, Jointly held by CMAC and MIT

The symposium will bring together pharmaceutical company end users, suppliers, regulators and academics  to look at accelerating adoption of continuous manufacturing for both small molecules and biologic products and how research groups, globally, might collaborate more to help drive this.  This is an enormous opportunity to guide the way in which new technologies and new approaches in the pharmaceutical industry can transform quality, cost and service for the benefit of the patient.

http://iscmp.mit.edu/

24th - 28th May 2014, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Topics include protein structure and drug design as well as materials research and engineering.

Erice, Italy

Structural Basis of Pharmacology. Deeper Understanding of Drug Discovery through Crystallography.
The purpose of the course is dual:

1) It will provide a review of the fundamentals and the application of crystallography to drug design, and an evaluation of the technology at the present state.

2) It will review the progress in this field and summarize the application and results to current fields of interest.

1st - 6th June 2014 Waterville Valley, New Hampshire USA

This event is the third GRC dedicated to crystal engineering following on from highly successful meetings in 2010 and 2012, each of which was attended by over 150 international participants. This GRC will be accompanied by an exciting Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) titled "Mechanochemistry and Solid-state Reactivity: State of the Art" in which only students and postdocs will present or lead discussions. The GRC and the GRS will together provide a unique opportunity for participants to discuss and debate the very latest trends and findings within this highly interdisciplinary and rapidly evolving area of science.

16th-17th June 2014, Graz, Austria

It is a great honor and an exciting challenge for the Graz University of Technology, as well as for the Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering to host an event that gathers together the most distinguished scientists in the field of pharmaceutical engineering as well as young scholars presenting the results of their first research efforts.

In the  5th International Congress on Pharmaceutical Engineering, which took place 2011, more than 150 interested experts, scientists and scholars participated.

http://www.icpe-graz.org/kongress_en_ICPE/index.php

9th-11th July, Lille France

This conference is organized in the framework of the Cross-border Cooperation programme INTERREG IVA "2 Mers Seas Zeeen" AMPTEC : Advanced Materials and Pharmaceutical Technologies including the Universities of Lille1 and Lille2, Cambridge, Ghent, Greenwich, East Anglia, the Cluster Nutrition Health Longevity , the Flemish SME SEPS Pharma and several associated partners: NOVITOM, CRYSTAL DELIVERY, the cluster UP-TEX , Ashford & St Peter's Hospitals NHS and UCL London.

13th - 15th July, Leeds, UK.

The conference topics are grouped into five symposia:

•  Crystallisation Modelling Across Length Scales
•  Crystallisation for Product Formulation
•  Fundamentals of Nucleation and Crystal Growth
•  Ice Nucleation and Crystallisation
•  Industrial Crystallisation Processes

31st July - 1st August 2014, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh

Very much like its predecessor, the 2^nd Northern Postgraduate Chemical Engineering Conference  aims to enable researchers at different stages to present their work, to peers in an encouraging and supportive environment, while still providing them the experience of presenting to the greater research community in a professional setting. This conference will bring together scientists, engineers, industrial professionals and students to discuss current challenges and establish new partnerships.

The 19th International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization (ISIC) takes place on 16-19th September 2014 in Toulouse, Southern France.

Crystallization takes place in most physical, biological, and chemical systems, and is exploited today in thousands of applications, from production of commodities to that of pharmaceuticals, food ingredients and fine chemicals. Research is active on a broad range of topics from fundamentals to applications, and has lead to new results and products in recent years. These developments of crystallization processes from molecules to devices lead to a better control of product quality and sustainable process.

The ISIC (International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization) series is organized by the Working Party on Crystallization of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE). Like the previous editions, ISIC19 aims providing a unique opportunity exchange between scientists and engineers of all disciplines, academia and industry, and between novice and expert. ISIC 19 presents a broad overview of the science and technology of crystallization with contributions from all continents.

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
23rd - 24th September 2014
Hosted by CMAC

This conference is the only national manufacturing research conference focusing on the leading edge (TRLs 1-4), taking a broad perspective on manufacturing. The aim of the conference is to build and network the manufacturing research community, exchange best practice and work in progress and communicate the value of the community to stakeholders. The conference will become the national forum for defining and debating the objectives and approaches for Scientific Excellence in manufacturing research.

28th September - 1st October 2014
Centro Convegni Sant’Agostino Cortona, Italy

...an International meeting on Quality by Design, Continuous Manufacturing, Life Cycle Management, Manufacturing Innovation, Data/Knowledge Management, Risk Assessment, and Process Control, Modeling & Chemometrics within the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and related Manufacturing Industries

Paris, France

Meet face-to-face wtih international pharmaceutical companies, stay informed about the latest industry trends and remain one step ahead of a constantly changing pharmaceutical market.

December 2014, Universtiy of Manchester

The Winter Process Conference will consist of presentations from international chemists and chemical engineers covering all aspects of Process Development. The speakers will discuss the latest issues in synthetic route design, development and optimisation, reactor design, work up and purification, crystallisation, process engineering, hazard studies, and quality and regulatory issues. The presentations will be from either speakers within the chemical industry or academics with a strong link to industrial process development, so the material presented will be of particular relevance to all chemists and engineers in industry, as well as graduate students considering a career in industry.

Tuesday 17th March 2015 at 15.00 - 16.00

In SIPBS HW 111-114  directions here 

Tim Foster, Professor in Food Structure, University of Nottingham has kindly agreed to visit CMAC at the University of Strathclyde and will give a seminar. Title “Engineering the process for desired food microstructure creation”.

All are welcome to attend the seminar.

11.00-15.00

Glasgow, Technology & Innovation Centre, Inovo Building, George Street, G1 1RD

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The essential event for students, graduates and professionals looking for postgraduate study advice and funding opportunities.

CMAC will be exhibiting at this event - come and find out more about our PhD and MSc programmes for 2015. 

Click here to find out more. 

Venue: Trinity College, Dublin

This symposium will provide world leading knowledge and case studies from both academia and industry in all the key aspects around particle engineering: Particle formation, isolation/drying, particle processing, particle assessment and particle performance.

It is a must attend for both scientists and managers in pharmaceutical development and manufacture and will also appeal to scientific community in related industries such as food, FMCG and agrochemicals.

This meeting is a partnership event bringing together the Materials Science Focus Group of the APS with the Solid State Pharmaceutical Cluster of Ireland. Opportunities will be available for displaying posters and also for exhibitors of scientific equipment/services. Please contact APS secretariat for more details.

The event is to be held at Trinity College Dublin and as this is a partnership event demand is likely to be high for the limited places hence please be sure to reserve your place early to avoid disappointment.

Find out more here

Dial-a-Molecule are pleased to announce the following meeting:
Closed Loop Optimisation of Synthesis

Thursday 16 April 2015, at GSK Stevenage

he optimisation of synthetic procedures is a time consuming process which is rarely carried out as efficiently as would be desirable.  Automated reaction equipment, and in-line/in-situ analytical tools are becoming more readily available, but these still rely on the chemist to set-up reactions, analyse the outcomes, and decide which experiment(s) to do next.

Join us for a discussion on how to ‘Close the Loop”, and utilise computer algorithms and automated equipment to remove the drudgery from optimising synthetic procedures.

Confirmed Plenary Speakers:  Richard Bourne (Leeds), Martyn Poliakoff (Nottingham) and Lee Cronin (Glasgow)

In addition to keynote presentations, the day will also include

• progress from the Dial-a-Molecule inspired ‘Manufacturing the Future – Closed Loop Optimisation’ team
• the opportunity to showcase your own research in an interactive Flash Poster Session
• an exhibition from key suppliers
• a lively panel discussion to debate the merits of Closed Loop Optimisation

The event is free to attend and Dial-a-Molecule ECR bursaries to cover travel and accommodation can be applied for at registration. 

Registrations close 22 March 2015

For more information click here

The symposium is aimed at those working in the pharmaceutical sciences. As always, the symposium will offer a wide range of opportunities for both young and established scientists to present their latest research and network with others from academia and industry.

CMAC academic Dr Dimitrios Lamprou is on the organizing committee and also will be one oral and one poster presentation from CMAC students.

Find out more here.

Bruker Scanning Probe Microscopy Conference & User Meeting 2015, 22 and 23 April 2015 at the University of Strathclyde.

The Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS) and the EPRSC National Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation (CMAC), in conjunction with Bruker Nano Surfaces would like to invite you to the Scanning Probe Microscopy Conference and Users Meeting 2015 in SIPBS on 22^nd & 23^rd of April 2015. 

The event will focus on exciting new SPM applications and recent technology developments and will be beneficial for researchers using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) to characterise surface properties or interested in exploiting the technique in the future. 

Oral presentations topics from leading research groups will include Biology, Materials and Pharmaceutical applications.

CMAC Academic Director, Professor Alastair Florence will open the meeting. CMAC Academic, Dr Dimitrios Lamprou is on the organising committee and will also give an oral presentation and chair a session. 

Full agenda here

 Registration is free of charge and includes lunches and refreshments. You can register at https://www.bruker.com/events/users-meetings/surface-analysis/spm-user-meeting.html

 Posters presentations will be open where researchers will have the opportunity to present their work. There will be the opportunity to win £1000 of AFM probes.

 Practical workshops on the AFMs Dimension FastScan Bio, MultiMode 8 and Bioscope Resolve^TM will give delegates an opportunity to see new innovations in action and learn how to optimise the technique for their own research. 

Do not forget to bring your sample, it will be possible to make measurements during the workshop sessions and evenings.

 We very much hope to see you at the meeting!

Kind Regards,

Dimitrios

30th April - 1st May 2015, Leeds UK.

The crystallisation phase transformation process and the resulting creation of crystalline materials from liquid phase precursors are central to the science and process engineering of materials in their broadest sense. Crystallisation involves two distinct stages: nucleation and growth. Due to the nano-scale size domain within which the nucleation process functions it is a much less understood process compared to the growth process. As a result, elucidating the fundamental physics and chemistry that govern the formation and structure of the nucleation supra-molecular transition state remains one of the truly unresolved 'grand challenges' of the physical sciences.

Professor Roger Davey, University of Manchester has kindly agreed to visit CMAC at the University of Strathclyde and give a Seminar. 

The Seminar will take place at 3pm in SIPBS HW 111-114

Title: Crystal Nucleation from Solutions – transition states, rate determining steps and complexity

Host: Professor JoopTer Horst

19 – 20 May 2015
Weetwood Hall Conference Centre & Hotel, Leeds

This event is exclusively for Early Career Researchers* from across the two Networks

We hope to encourage participants from a wide range of disciplines, including – but not limited to – chemists, biochemists, chemical engineers, materials scientists, theoreticians, experimental or instrument scientists.

Find out more here

Professor Chris Frampton, Professor of Structural Chemistry and Crystal Engineering at Brunel University, has kindly agreed to visit CMAC at the University of Strathclyde and give a Seminar. The Seminar will take place at 15.00-16.00 on 26th May 2015 in GH/554, Graham Hills Building. Directions here. 

Talk Title: Phase Change and Structural Evolution in Crystalline Solids

If you want to find out more please contact helen.feilden@strath.ac.uk

First International Convention IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY - VACCIPHARMA 2015, 14-19 June 2015  at Varadero-Cuba 

CMAC Academic, Dr Dimitrios Lamprou been invited to give two oral presentations. 

Find out more here

15 - 19 June 2015 - Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Our CMAC Industry Director will be at this event.

Find out more here 

CMAC Seminar

Professor Claire S. Adjiman, Imperial College London has kindly agreed to visit CMAC at the University of Strathclyde and give a seminar entitled “In search of structure: crystals, molecules and processes”.

The Seminar will take place at 15.00-16.00 in JA 314, John Anderson Building.

All are welcome to attend.

The 46th BACG Annual Conference will be held on 21-23 June 2015 at Queen Mary University of London, UK. The call for abstracts is now open. To be considered for an oral and/or poster presentation abstracts must be submitted by 30 April 2015. 

The conference topics are grouped into five symposia:

• Global Optimisation applied to Structure Prediction of Nanoclusters and Polymorphism

• Nucleation and Crystal Growth from Solution

• Industrial and Crystallisation Processes

• Cocrystallization

We hope that you and other members of your research group will be able to attend the conference. For more information, please visit the BACG website: www.bacg.co.uk

If you have any questions or would like further information, please contact the conference organizers (bacg2015@qmul.ac.uk).

Summer School on Crystal Shape Engineering organized on behalf of the Working Party on Crystallization of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering

6-10 July 2015
ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland


In crystallization processes the size and shape distribution of the product crystals has a decisive impact on properties such as processability and bio- availability (in the case of active pharmaceutical ingredients).
Obtaining the desired particle size and shape distribution of crystals requires a deep understanding of molecular properties, crystallography, nucleation and growth mechanisms, process modeling through multi-dimensional population balance equations, advanced monitoring tools and process control techniques.
Crystal shape engineering has emerged as a very dynamic, challenging and fascinating area of research in crystallization science and engineering, with growing interest and importance for industrial applications.

The school "Crystal Shape Engineering" offers a compact education in the science and technology of crystal shape engineering. It is offered to scholars and practitioners active in crystallization science and technology, who want to deepen their understanding of issues around crystal size and shape and to learn these from among the top scientists in the field. It is especially addressed to doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars from all over the world. Beside five block courses on specific topics, there will be contributions from industry to explain their interest, and hands-on activities in the virtual and real crystallization labs at ETH Zurich.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Marco Mazzotti
ETH Zurich

Dave Ochsenbein
ETH Zurich

Giovanni Maria Maggioni
ETH Zurich



LECTURERS

Michael F. Doherty
University of California Santa Barbara

Marco Mazzotti
ETH Zurich

Zoltan Nagy
Loughborough University and Purdue University

Michele Parrinello
ETH Zurich and USI Lugano

Matteo Salvalaglio
ETH Zurich

Thomas Vetter
University of Manchester


PROGRAM: see website 

For more information and pre-registration:here


Organized on behalf of the Working Party on Crystallization of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering

The 42^nd Annual Meeting & Exposition of the Controlled Release Society, 26-29 July 2015 at Edinburgh International Conference Centre

CMAC Academic Dr Dimitrios Lamprou will chair a session and also there will be poster presentations from CMAC Post-Docs and PhD students.

Find out more here

Dr Harris (Charalampos) Makatsoris, Brunel University has kindly agreed to visit CMAC at the University of Strathclyde and give a Seminar. Details to follow.

APS International PharmSci 2015, 7-9 September 2015 at East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham.

CMAC Academic Dr Dimitrios Lamprou will chair a session and also will be poster and oral presentations from many CMAC Post-Docs and PhD students.

Find out more here.

Please save the date for the 2015 conference, which will be hosted by the Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

The conference will be held at Churchill College, with evening events at Jesus College and the Imperial War Museum, Duxford. Further information will be available online shortly.

Contact: ifm-events@eng.cam.ac.uk

The CMAC Annual Open Day will take place on 23-24 September 2015 in Glasgow

More details to follow soon.

Enquires contact  info@cmac.ac.uk

The Association for Crystallization Technology will hold the 20th Larson Workshop October 4-7, 2015.  The preliminary announcement for the workshop as well as registration and lodging information can be found at  http://www.extension.iastate.edu/registration/events/conferences/crystallization/  The workshop will be hosted by GSK and held at the historic Hyatt at The Bellevue in Philadelphia, PA.

The structure of the 2½-day workshop will remain identical to earlier years.  Five half-day sessions devoted to particular topics will be organized by leading researchers in the area.  Each session will include presentations by invited speakers followed by a one-hour open panel discussion.  The topics to be covered are listed on the attached preliminary announcement.  The final program with a list of invited speakers will be available on the event website on or before May 1, 2015.

 Brochure here

This event is taking place at Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Registration is now open – you can access the registration pages through the CCG website. The theme of the meeting is "Functional Materials".

Global Engage are pleased to announce the Microscopy Congress 2015, which will be held on 30th November - 1st December 2015 in London, UK.  More here

This webinar takes place at 3pm (UK). The webinar will focus primarily on mixing and mass transfer issues. Register and information here

3rd Winter Process Chemistry Conference at University of Bath, includes a Design of Experiments (DoE) event on 16th December. Webpage with more details here

A Molecular Scale Understanding of Crystal Growth

Venue: Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia

Scope of the meeting: The aim of this meeting is to bring together experts in crystal growth from both experiment, theory and computation for a discussion regarding the molecular mechanisms of crystal growth.

CONTACT: Michael Anderson Email: m.anderson@manchester.ac.uk; Julian Gale Email: J.Gale@curtin.edu.au

Website here.

The 3 day course delivered by University of Leeds will be of interest to postgraduate students involved in research in the general area of crystallisation and we are pleased to advise that discounted fees apply.  Limited places are available for full time PhD students at 30% discount. 

Find out more here.

Tuesday 19^th January, 11am SIPBS HW 112-114

'The Factory of the Future - Industry 4.0’

Alan Norbury is the Central Technology Officer for Siemens industrial activities - a leading global supplier of industrial plant and software, manufacturing automation and drive technologies to industrial customers across the UK and Ireland. Alan started his career as an Apprentice in Siemens Congleton in 1978 moving into the role of Technical Specialist where he specialised in automation and low voltage products. In 1998 Alan spent time in Germany acting as Global Account Manager for key accounts such as Philip Morris & ICI. He later became the UK Product Specialist for a number of advanced technologies, developing into the role of Applications Specialist primarily focussing on the UK OEM market. Alan setup a team of Application Specialists in 1997, a team of pre-sales technical consultants located around the UK and Ireland who advise customers on the best use of Siemens technologies. Alan spent the past two years working closely with High Value Manufacturing Catapult Centres, particularly the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry and more recently the AMRC Sheffield. He is now Siemens Industrial Central Technology Officer and dedicates his time to developing leading technology innovation which seeks to benefit Siemens UK manufacturing facilities and also Siemens industrial customers.

For more info please contact organiser: stewart.mitchell@strath.ac.uk

This event taking place in London, UK, is about the developments in the field of  pharmaceutical Microbiology. Pharmaceutical microbiology is crucial to the manufacture and production of drugs, biologics and devices. Website here

Thursday 28^th January, 3pm Royal College 512

'Is the crystallisation of pharmaceutical molecules controlled by thermodynamics or kinetics?’

Prof Sally Price is a computational chemist who heads the project “Control and Prediction of the Organic Solid State” CPOSS www.cposs.org.uk. The project aims to develop ability to interpret crystal energy landscapes to find novel polymorphs, solve structures from powder diffraction or other experimental data and predict and rationalise static or dynamic disorder.

For more info please contact organiser: rebekah.russell.100@strath.ac.uk

Thursday 28^th January, 12pm Thomas Graham 223

‘Purification of Organic Molecules by Crystallization – Some Considerations following Case Studies’

Dr Beckmann is Senior Expert at Bayer Technologies. He studied Chemical Engineering and Physical Chemistry in Germany and the US. He spent one year as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Marseille and has spent the last 20 years working at Bayer developing crystallization processes for pharmaceutical compounds.

For more info please contact organiser: rebekah.russell.100@strath.ac.uk

The Future of Pharmacy Conference will explore the currents within UK society and the technological innovations that have put community pharmacies under pressure and will engage with experts in pharmacy, government officials, and e-pharmacy champions, to debate the future of pharmacy in the UK.the conference will take place at University of Salford, Manchester (UK). Register and Information here

This three day Conference on Continuous Flow Technology is organised by both SCI and RSC, combining previously successful 1 and 2 day symposia. This reflects the advances made with continuous flow technology over recent years and the impact it is making right across the chemicals industry spanning discovery applications, process development advances and value for commercial manufacture of fine and speciality chemicals. To reflect the mix of interests and applications across the chemistry community, the symposium is structured as two back to back events with options for attending two consecutive days or all three.

Held at  Robinson College, Cambridge (UK) Email: conferences@soci.org Webpage here

Taking place in the City Observatory, Technology and Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Flyer is here.

Science and Risk Based Approach: The Future of Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacture. Taking Place at De Montford University.CMAC Director Prof Alastair Florence, and Director C-SOPS Fernando Muzzio will be at the meeting.

Website with full programme is here

The University of Bath are  hosting ChemEngDayUK 2016 and will be welcoming leading UK Chemical Engineering academics, industry partners and international guests, to discuss developments and innovations towards a more sustainable future. More here

10TH WORLD MEETING
on Pharmaceutics, Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology
4 April to 7 April 2016 | Glasgow

Glasgow (UK) More here.

GSK, Ware
Industrial Insights is a two day event for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in exploring opportunities in the Pharmaceutical Industry. As a student attending the event, you will be able to gain first-hand insight into the Pharmaceutical Industry through a series of talks by pharmaceutical scientists working within the industry as well as a tour of the GSK Research and Development and Global Manufacturing site at Ware in Hertfordshire. Website here

APACT 16 will be taking place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Chester on 20th - 22nd April 2016. There will also be pre-conference courses on 19th April.  The courses are open to both conference delegates as an additional option, or may be attended on a 'course only' basis.

APACT is an open forum for the presentation and discussion of recent scientific and engineering advances relevant to process analytics and control technologies. Plenary and keynote speakers will report recent advances in the development and application of novel process analytics, predictive modelling and control technologies, and will review the benefits achieved.

Information and full programme available on APACT website

The UKICRS Symposium 2016 will be held on Friday 22 April 2015 in the Redwood Building, Cardiff University. The symposium is aimed at those working in the pharmaceutical sciences. As always, the symposium will offer a wide range of opportunities for both young and established scientists to present their latest research and network with others from academia and industry. Although the programme is still being finalised, the general format is presented below.

A number of additional activities, including workshops, exhibitions and the symposium dinner, are planned for the Thursday 21st April, the day before the main symposium. 

Abstracts are due by 14th February 2016, with submissions welcomed from December.

 Website here .

The Dynamic Structural Science Workshop, 25-27 April 2016, covering aspects of: simulations-spectroscopy-scattering-imaging. We have a diverse Programme (pdf) of international speakers. Click here to Register for the Workshop.

Seminar: On 27th April 2016 at 1.30-3.00pm in TIC, University of Strathclyde

Robot chemists, artificial creativity and self-evolving chemical systems: the evolution of science or science fiction?

Professor Harris Makatsoris, Cranfield University 

How will chemical sciences change over the next 30 to 50 years? Specifically, how will the design and development of high value chemical products will take place in the future? These are questions that both EPSRC Grand Challenge Networks Directed Assembly and Dial A Molecule have posed to the chemistry and chemical engineering communities. The roadmaps both networks produced describe developments in the tools and workflows employed that could potentially transform chemical science as a ‘data driven discipline’. The Directed Assembly roadmap for example discusses how nature-inspired processes could lead to the development of novel approaches and tools for the control of molecular assemblies in the solid state to obtain materials with targeted functionality. The Nobel Laureate in Physics, Frank Wilczek, recently predicted that in 100 years’ time the best physicist will be a machine. We currently experience significant innovation in processing equipment. In particular, the use of intelligent automation in chemical discovery and materials design and development is rapidly increasing. It may therefore take considerably less time than that when we could see machines with sufficient intelligence undertaking some discovery or design tasks with little or no human supervision. In this talk Prof Makatsoris will report on what is involved in making such intelligent machines, what’s possible now and in the future and  will present what his group is working on in this domain.

The PSE Webinar Series presents: "gPROMS FormulatedProducts preview." This webinar will be held on 28 April 2016 at 15:00 BST / 10:00 EDT.

This event will be a platform for CMAC industrial partners, collaborators and academia to present, discuss and network. 

Presentations will feature current hot topics, technology developments, collaborative opportunities and a CMAC Director’s update.

Find out more here

Thursday 5^th May 2016 (2:00 pm, TG314)     Analytical/Bionano/Physical Chemistry, University of Strathclyde

Prof Ian Hamley, University of Reading

Bioactive Lipopeptides

https://www.reading.ac.uk/chemistry/about/staff/i-w-hamley.aspx

Prof Hamley’s research spans bioactive peptides, peptide and block copolymer synthesis, self-assembly and nanostructures, hydrogel biomaterials, as well as x-ray scattering and circular dichroism experiments at Diamond and neutron scattering experiments at ISIS

Continuous Crystallization of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients

Steven Ferguson

School of Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

Development efforts over the past decade have resulted in huge advances in continuous manufacturing aimed at pharmaceutical scales of operation; with all continuous operations showing significant progress. The first end to end continuous production run of an API (Aliskerin) from an intermediate right through formulation to final tableting was demonstrated in 2012.¹  Continuous crystallization  is no exception in this regard with a variety of designs and strategies that enable continuous crystallizations to be successfully implemented on pharmaceutical scales of operation outlined in the literature.  ^{1, 2, ,3, 4, 5, , 6, 7} This is essential for  the uptake of continuous manufacturing  in pharmaceuticals where crystallization is the preferred method of API isolation and purification and also utilized to generate the final solid form and API properties for formulation of drug product.⁸

The most popular approaches to continuous crystallization for pharmaceuticals that have emerged can be broken down into three main categories; standard plug flow/tubular crystallizers, continuous stirred tanks and finally tubular designs with imposed mixing to increase allowable residence time. Both types of tubular/plug flow crystallizers have ideally no or limited back mixing. This means that they operate at steady state with respect to time but not with spatial position within the crystallizer. As such the dynamics of continuous tubular crystallizations are identical to that of the of a batch crystallization except progressing with respect to residence time rather than batch time. Continuous stirred tank crystallizations, often referred to as MSMPR type crystallizers, are perfectly backmixed, which means that they operate at steady state with respect to both time and spatial position.

This results in continuous operation at a non-equilibrium steady state which poses some interesting challenges and opportunities in the design of this type of continuous crystallizations. Stirred tank crystallizers (MSMPRs) have been demonstrated to selectively crystallize both stable and metastable polymorphs via a kinetically controlled crystallization.⁹ Operation of a MSMPR so that (non-equilibrium) steady state concentration has supersaturating with respect to both polymorphs eliminates solution mediated phase transformation. The process then becomes purely kinetically controlled allowing robust production of metastable forms as well as the thermodynamically stable forms in a given solvent system.⁹ Similarly, non-equillibrium steady states also enable attainment of higher enantiomeric purity that in batch crystallizations. ¹⁰ Per pass yield reductions associated with operation at non-equilibrium steady states can be eliminate by recycling of mother liquor and operation at conditions more preferential for crystal growth. ^11,12,13 Finally, a wider range of potential CSDs and particle morphologies can be accessed when continuous crystallizations are considered. ^{4, 14, 15,16, 17, 18}

Lisbon, Portugal

Find out more here.

Summer School in Erice, Italy website here

Fundamental topics covered in the course include experimental techniques for pressure generation, X-ray and neutron diffraction on single crystal and powder materials, comparative structural studies and combined high-temperature and low-temperature experiments. These will be demonstrated through examples of different chemical and structural complexity, from minerals to ices and biomolecules. Specialized and frontiers high-pressure research topics will include computational crystallography, dynamic compression, characterization of liquids and glasses and pair distribution function analysis. The course will be rounded up by illustrating the use of high-pressure as a means to study and access new materials for industrial application such as pharmaceuticals, energy storage, magnetic and ultra-hard materials.

COST Action Crystallize will co-organize a summer school on crystallisation in Granada, Spain, Sunday 29th of May to Friday 3rd of June 2016. CMAC's Prof Joop ter Horst will be one of the many lecturers there.  There are grants available.

You can find more information at: http://www.iscgranada.org/.

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
31 May 2016, 10:20 - 17:00
Organised by SCI's Scotland Group

Website here

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Topics include encapsulation of live bacteria, yeast biocapsules, applications to food pharmaceutical and agrochem markets. Companies represented include QinetiQ, National Formulation Centre, Aqdot, Revolymer and various academic institutions.

Find out more here.

26^th European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering at Portorož Slovenia at the Grand Hotel Bernardin Congress Centre from June 12 -15, 2016. More here

IPDM 2016 (Innovation & Product Development Management Conference) taking place in the premises of the Technology and Innovation Centre at University of Strathclyde
on June 12-14, 2016.   The main theme of the conference is
"Crossing Borders and Boundaries: The Changing Role of Innovation/Entrepreneurship”.
Please find all useful details on the following web site : http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=1164

CMAC DTC Summer School is taking place 13-17th June 2016. Places by invitation only. Please respond promptly when you receive your invite.

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in the 21st Century-From Batch to Continuous Manufacturing-An FDA Perspective

Wednesday, 15th June 2016 | 9AM EST

ATTEND FREE WEBINAR

Taking Place at Technology and Innovation Centre, Glasgow, UK
Organizer: Joop ter Horst

Speakers are Peter Vekilov, Roger Davey, Denis Gebauer, Jan Sefcik and Joop ter Horst. You can also find more information on the cmac website: http://www.cmac.ac.uk/summer_school.htm. Note that the summer school will be held the week before the CGOM/BACG meeting 26-29 June in Leeds (www.crystalgrowth2016.co.uk). For more information you can contact the organizing committee: nucleation-summerschool2016@strath.ac.uk.

Flyer is here.

University of Southampton

The NGCM Summer Academy is a one-week event bringing together PhD students from across the UK who work on computer simulation of science and engineering problems, and want to extend their training through the workshops available at the Summer Academy. The training is delivered by world-leading experts and key developers of the relevant software tools, and includes 2-day courses on IPython and the IPython Notebook. Website here

"Connecting Future Leaders in Chemistry" at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

CMAC's Dr Thomas McGlone is chairing an Early Career Symposium for chemists at Strathclyde on 23^rd – 24^th June 2016. There will an exciting line up of speakers confirmed including RSC president Dominic Tildesley and former UK Apprentice winner and founder of Hyperspec Recruitment Solutions, Ricky Martin. In addition, on the evening of the 23^rd, we have a Science Ceilidh event which is not to be missed! Please check out our website: http://www.rscecs.org/

CGOM 12
12th International Workshop of the Crystal Growth of Organic Materials

JOINT CONFERENCE

BACG 2016
47th Annual British Associateion of Crystal Growth Conference

University of Leeds, UK

Website is here

Registration is now open for the Royal Microscopical Society’s Electron Microscopy Summer School 2016

10-15 July 2016, University of Leeds

Scientific Organiser: Rik Brydson, Rebecca Thompson, Michael Ward

http://www.rms.org.uk/discover-engage/event-calendar/electron-microscopy-summer-school-2016.html

The EM Summer School aims to provide a basic training in both the theory and practice of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The course covers imaging, diffraction and chemical microanalysis as well as the highly important area of sample preparation.

The course fees are as follows:

RMS Member rate: £1075

Non-Member rate: £1195

Accommodation Package: £320 including 5 nights’ accommodation

To book your place, view the programme or find out more information about the course please visit http://www.rms.org.uk/booking.electron-microscopy-summer-school-2016.html

Held in Nottingham UK.More information here.

Keele University, Sustainability Hub, 15th July 2016. If you are planning to attend please email Dr Clare Hoskins: c.hoskins@keele.ac.uk to register.

The Directed Assembly Network Summer School is aimed at PhD students at the end of their 1st year, or in their 2nd year, working in the field of directed assembly.

5 nights accommodation and food will be fully funded for each successful delegate. We are unable to cover travel costs. How to apply: Due to high demand, each applicant will need to complete and return an application form to us (which will be made available here on 1 March 2016). The applicants will be reviewed and 25 places will be available. Each successful applicant must pay a £100 registration fee (details will be given to successful applicants).

Invited speakers include:

Lee Brammer (University of Sheffield)

Niek Buurma (Cardiff University)

Neil Champness (University of Nottingham)

George Jackson (Imperial College London)

Harris Makatsoris (Brunel University)

Anna Peacock (University of Birmingham)

Sally Price (UCL)

Paul Raithby (University of Bath)

Kevin Roberts (Leeds)

Matt Rosseinsky (University of Liverpool)

Mike Ward (University of Sheffield)

Chick Wilson (University of Bath)

Event is held at Lake Biwa, Shiga, Japan in conjunction with 18th International Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy (in Nagoya on August 7-12, 2016).

http://www.iccge18.jp/isscg16/welcome.h tml

http://www.iccge18.jp/welcome.html

BACG (British Association for Crystal Growth) supports a meeting on Methods to Simulate Nucleation and Growth from Solution (MSNGS) to be held in Sheffield, UK  4-5th, August 2016. 

REGISTRATION OPEN
Website: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/materials/msngs

Understanding the nucleation and growth of phases from solution at the nanoscale is key to addressing challenges in a wide range of scientific disciplines, including biology, medicine and materials engineering. MSNGS will bring together computational experts to discuss state of the art methods in this area of simulation. Our programme will cover a number of themes. These include methods to access necessary time and length scales, and to measure the thermodynamics and kinetics of nucleation and growth, as well as solution modelling and effects.

APS International PharmSci is the leading UK Pharmaceutical Science conference and has firmly established itself as the premier pharmaceutical science event in the UK.

5-7 September 2016 will see the 7th APS International PharmSci Conference moving to the newly-opened Technology & Innovation Centre at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. The conference will follow in Scotland’s rich heritage in the Sciences, Mathematics and Technology which has left a proud trail of famous scientists to inspire and encourage others to follow in their footsteps. The theme of the conference in 2016 is 'Pharmaceutical Sciences: Improving World Health'. Keep an eye on this site for info.

ICPE 2016 – 7^th International Congress on Pharmaceutical Engineering 14-15 September 2016 at Graz. More here.

Key topics:

• Advanced Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

• Continuous manufacturing

• PAT for continuous manufacturing

• Regulatory aspects of continuous manufacturing  

Deadline for abstract submission: 15 July 2016 Please send your abstracts (2 pages A4) as pdf file to mb@apv-mainz.de   

Organised by the North West Centre for Advanced Drug Delivery (NoWCADD): a collaboration between AstraZeneca and The University of Manchester

Title: Developing the next generation of medicinal products

Museum of Science and Industry (Garratt Suite 2), Manchester, September 23rd 2016 (13:00 – 17:00)

Find out more here

 4th Annual International Conference on Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences (PHARMA 2016) which will be held on 26th – 27th September 2016 in Singapore.

CMAC students are invited to submit a paper to the conference. The full paper submission deadline is on 8th July 2016.

For more information, please visit the PHARMA 2016 website: http://www.pharma-conf.org/.

International Workshop on Process Intensification (IWPI) 2016

29-30 September 2016, Manchester, UK

Call for papers now open

Clean and sustainable processes are essential to mitigate climate change and tackle emerging food, energy and water shortages. Process intensification (PI) will be key to many of these processes. 

IWPI 2016 will create a multi-disciplinary environment for the advancement of the PI-technology, which is why it is an ideal event for anyone who is active in PI at all levels. 

Keynote speakers

Professor Galip Akay - director,  GAP Technologies, UK

Dr Naoki Furukawa, general manager, Kaneka Corporation, Japan

Professor Ken-ichiro Sotowa, Tokushima University, Japan

The National Facility team will be exhibiting at CPhI Worldwide conference in Barcelona, Spain (4-6 October 2016) to provide information and capabilities for attendees.  In addition, Craig Johnston, CMAC Industrial Director, will be presenting during the pre-connect congress (3 October) in a section entitled ‘Driving innovation and competitiveness in formulation, sourcing and manufacturing strategies.’

Come visit us at stand 1G70.

Disordered or amorphous materials are commonplace across formulation sciences, metals and glasses. While our understanding of amorphous solids has advanced there remain challenges in the reliable preparation, processing and manufacturing of such materials. This year’s BCA Industrial Group autumn meeting focuses on the challenges to materials characterisation presented by such solids. Split over two days, the first day will feature presentations from a number of experts across these fields. The second day will be dedicated to a workshop on the practise of measuring and interpretation of Pair Distribution Functions using the newly commissioned PDF beamline at the Diamond Light Source.

Confirmed speakers include Bruno Hancock (Pfizer), Yaroslav Khimyak (UEA), Katie Ryan (SSPC) and Shen Qi (UEA).

The two-day meeting will be hosted a the Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire and has kindly been sponsored by Diamond and Pfizer. Early bird registration fees are available until the 14^th October and reduced fees for students are also available. Some student bursaries are also available, please contact the chair Cheryl.doherty@pfizer.com if you wish to apply.

Early bird rates apply and registration is open now: https://registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/bcaig16

Taking place in Colorado Convention Center, Denver. Headquarter Hotel—Hyatt Regency Convention Center. Keep an eye on this site for info.

The course is intended for chemists, chemical engineers and plant managers working in the chemical and life-science industry, in the fine chemicals industry as well as in the basic chemicals industry who develop crystallization processes, transfer crystallizations into production or between sites, operate crystallization processes or who optimize crystallizations.

The course is equally directed towards persons working in formulation of crystalline products, in the life-science but also in alimentary or consumer products fields, wanting to learn more about the potentials of the processes leading to the crystalline starting material to be formulated.

To find out more click here.

I2APM International Symposium & Satellite Training Day at University of Strathclyde - Save the date - details to follow

We are hosting the 4th Winter Process Chemistry Conference in the Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) from 12th – 14th December.  The speakers will discuss the latest issues in synthetic route design, development and optimisation, reactor design, work up and purification, crystallisation, polymorphism, catalysis, and quality and regulatory issues. The presentations will be from either speakers within the chemical industry or academics with a strong link to industrial process development, so the material presented will be of particular relevance to all chemists and biochemists in industry, as well as graduate students considering a career in industry. Please click here for more info.

The seminar will feature André de Vries (DSM Chemical Technology) who will deliver his talk "3D-printed Metal Flow Reactors; Design, Production & Applications". Please contact info@cmac.ac.uk for more information if you want to attend.

The second annual CPD short course on Crystallisation Science and Engineering takes place in Leeds on Monday 16 – Wednesday 18 January 2017. You can now book your place at the course website.

The programme has now been finalised and the course leaflet and programme are available for download.

If you have any colleagues or contacts who would benefit from attending this course please forward these details on to them.

Clairet Scientific (CMAC Tier 2 partner and supplier of various process analytical equipment in our facility) run an annual course on Process Spectroscopy in collaboration with CPACT. The next one will take place Tuesday 17th January - Thursday 19th January 2017 and spaces are filling up fast.

Thomas McGlone, Pól MacFhionnghaile and Tariq Islam attended last year and can answer any questions if anyone is interested in attending. More information is available here.

The CORE Network is organising a lecture by Professor Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern, Otto von Guericke University and Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany who will speak about the Process to separate enantiomers.  This hour long lecture is part of the project kick-off meetings and introductory week which will be taking place at the University of Strathclyde, 30 January – 3 February 2017, it will take place on Thursday 2 February 2017, 09:00-10.00 in Room CW507a/b, Cathedral Wing Business School, University of Strathclyde.  Please follow the link to the abstract and online registration – further information.

CMAC Open Day 2017 will take place in TIC in Glasgow and will be a showcase of the research outputs from the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation from 2011-2016.

The programme will include:

• Highlights from the CIM research programme will be presented
• Posters from all Centre Researchers
• Exhibitions from our world leading Tier 2 Partners
• Excellent networking opportunities
• Chance to tour the CMAC National Facility
• Attend the Confernce Dinner for a subsidised fee of £50pp

For more information please contact info@cmac.ac.uk

To register go to this webpage

Wednesday 29 March 2017, at De Montfort University, Leicester.

Website is here

PSE will host the 2017 Advanced Process Modelling Forum in London on 25-26 April 2017. As part of the forum there will be an academic poster session now calling for submissions. To find out more click here. The closing date for submissions is 10 March 2017. If you wish to register for the Forum, please click here.

6th FIP Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress 2017
Stockholm, Sweden,  21-24 May 2017
Future Medicines For One World - Systems approaches to drug discovery, development and clinical usage

Website is here

9th CRYSTAL FORMS@BO CONVENTION (4-6th June 2017, Bologna)
 “CRYSTALLIZATION BY DESIGN”
Making, discovering, protecting and using crystal forms

website is here

CMAC DTC Summer School 2016 Dates have been confirmed as 12-16 June 2017.

It has been announced that the British Association of Crystal Growth (BACG) annual meeting will be held in Manchester in 2017. The meeting will take place from 27th to 30th of June 2017 and CMAC has been invited to attend.

The abstract submission and registration process are now online on the website.
Please visit www.bacg-2017.co.uk for further details.

The deadline for abstract submission will be 27th of February 2017 and for early bird registration the 28th of April 2017.

Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing International Conference, Nottingham, UK

The conference that delivers the credible independent voice for state-of-the-art and future Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing. Website here.

The 20th International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization to be held in Dublin, Ireland from the 3rd - 6th September 2017, has invited authors to submit their abstract for oral/poster presentation at the conference. Please read the submission process carefully before submitting your abstract.

AAPS  will take place in November 12–15, 2017 at San Diego Convention Center.  Keep an eye on this web page for more details. 

The next ACHEMA will take place from 11 - 15 June 2018 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.  Keep an eye on the web page for more information.