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Full Schedule

Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, September 29, 2021
  • 08:30 – 09:30 EDT
    Special Topic 4: PDA QbD Book and PDA Vaccine Development Lifecycle Technical Report

    Moderator: Valerie Whelan – Amgen Inc.

  • 08:30 – 09:30 EDT
    Special Topic 5: AI Research Force (AIRForce) Group: Focus on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

    Moderator: Rebecca E. Dombrowski, MS – U.S. FDA

  • 08:30 – 09:30 EDT
    Special Topic 6: Risk Management of Non-Ingredient Suppliers

    Moderator: Mai X. Huynh, MS – U.S. FDA

  • 09:30 – 09:45 EDT
    Break
  • 09:45 – 11:15 EDT
    Plenary 5: Center Updates

    Moderator: Susan J. Schniepp – Regulatory Compliance Associates Inc.

    The global regulatory landscape is evolving, and innovative approaches to product life cycle and quality paradigms are met by new real-life challenges and complexities every day – patient-individualized medicines, supply challenges for legacy products, transition to new technologies, highly globalized supply chains. How will U.S. FDA continue to optimize its mission to safeguard the quality, safety, and effectiveness of medicines for patients even with these manufacturing and supply challenges? After introductory presentations, your questions on these and other issues will be posed to FDA executive management from various FDA Centers! In a virtual round table format, the conversation will focus on these issues that are often cross-cutting across different centers and relevant to the entire pharmaceutical space.
  • 11:15 – 11:45 EDT
    Virtual Exhibit Hall
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  • 11:45 – 13:15 EDT
    A4: Process Validation Lifecycle: 10 Years in Review

    Moderator: CDR Tara Gooen Bizjak, MBS – U.S. FDA

    QUALITY ASSURANCE & QMS

  • 11:45 – 13:15 EDT
    B4: ICH’s Initiatives to Advance Global Harmonization, Innovation, and Continual Improvement Throughout Lifecycle

    Moderator: Clarice H. Hutchens, PhD, MA, DM – Pfizer

    SUPPLY CHAIN & MANUFACTURING CHALLENGES

  • 11:45 – 13:15 EDT
    C4: Moving Quality to the Next Level: "What Would it Take?"

    Moderator: Mike G. Labruto, MS – University of Pennsylvania/Gene Therapy Program

    EMERGING TRENDS & INNOVATION

  • 13:15 – 13:45 EDT
    Connect & Network
  • 13:15 – 13:45 EDT
    Virtual Exhibit Hall
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  • 13:45 – 15:15 EDT
    A5: Aging Facilities vs. Modern Facilities

    Moderator: Patricia F. Hughes, PhD – U.S. FDA

    QUALITY ASSURANCE & QMS

  • 13:45 – 15:15 EDT
    B5: Sterile Drug Hot Topics

    Moderator: Douglas A. Campbell – InterPro QRA

    SUPPLY CHAIN & MANUFACTURING CHALLENGES

  • 13:45 – 15:15 EDT
    C5: All That Data…Now What?

    Moderator: Sharyl D. Hartsock – Eli Lilly and Company

    EMERGING TRENDS & INNOVATION

  • 15:15 – 15:45 EDT
    Break
  • 15:45 – 17:16 EDT
    Plenary 6: Thanks Science

    Moderator: Mary E. Farbman, PhD – Merck & Co., Inc.

    We live in a time at which scientific discoveries – and technologies based on them – come at an unprecedented pace . . . and yet also at time when the public may be increasingly slow to trust scientists. How can we improve the way we – scientists, engineers, quality professionals -- communicate with the public about our work? This session will feature CBER Center Director Dr. Peter Marks and Baylor College of Medicine’s Dr. Peter Hotez, who will discuss with us their work in helping the public at large appreciate science and its contribution to public health. At the same time, we’ll take a moment to celebrate some of science’s successes and to appreciate not just how science impacts the world, but how world events impact science, spurring us to ever new innovations and discoveries.