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Quality by Design
23 January - 24 January 2013
Quality by Design

With increasing pressure to reduce overheads and enhance clinical effectiveness, QbD permits improvements and unnecessary expenses during development and manufacturing to be identified before production starts. The earlier these are implemented, the less expensive they become.

Through the strategic use of QbD and process analytical technology, we can save time, money and increase regulatory and business opportunities. Correctly employing a scientific, risk-based approach to lifecycle management, provides quantifiable benefits and value from:

  • Streamlined R&D and pre-market reviews
  • Improved quality with lower development risks
  • Faster product maturity
  • Fewer delays in manufacturing
  • Increased productivity
  • Lower overall costs
  • Easier regulatory compliance and flexibility 
  • Higher sale volumes

 

Together, these factors potentially provide $20-$30bn more in profit and speed time-to-market by years, conclude FDA and industry experts.

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Dave Gervais

Dave Gervais

Senior Process Scientist, Health Protection Agency
Jesus Zurdo

Jesus Zurdo

Head of Innovation, Biopharma Development, Lonza Biologics
Michael Leane

Michael Leane

Principal Scientist, Materials Science, Bristol Myers Squibb
Ronan O'Kennedy

Ronan O'Kennedy

Head of Cell Culture Process Development, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies
Simon Cooper

Simon Cooper

Director, Process Development Technology & Scale-up, Mylan Pharma
Zoltan K Nagy

Zoltan K Nagy

Professor of Chemical Engineering , Purdue University

Bruno Boulanger

CSO, Arlenda
Bruno Boulanger

Dave Gervais

Senior Process Scientist, Health Protection Agency
Dave Gervais

David Lathbury

Vice President of Chemical Development, AMRI
David Lathbury

Eleanor Berrie

Qualified Person, University of Oxford Clinical BioManufacturing Facility
Eleanor Berrie

Gary Montague

Head of School & Director, Research Centre in Biopharmaceutical & Bioprocessing Technology, Newcastle University
Gary Montague

Heike Kofler

Manager Technical Customer Service Europe, West Pharmaceutical Services
Heike Kofler

Jesus Zurdo

Head of Innovation, Biopharma Development, Lonza Biologics
Jesus Zurdo

Keith McDonald

Group Manager , MHRA
Keith McDonald

Mariangela Spitali

Associate Director, UCB
Mariangela Spitali

Mark Smales

Professor of Mammalian Biotechnology, University of Kent
Mark Smales

Michael Leane

Principal Scientist, Materials Science, Bristol Myers Squibb
Michael Leane

Nicolas Chaudet

Upstream Platform/Fermentation Unit , Sanofi Pasteur
Nicolas Chaudet

Paul Matejtschuk

Principal Scientist, National Institute For Biological Standards & Control
Paul Matejtschuk

Peter Jones

Lead, Manufacturing Sciences and Technology, Oxford BioMedica
Peter  Jones

Ronan O'Kennedy

Head of Cell Culture Process Development, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies
Ronan O'Kennedy

Simon Cooper

Director, Process Development Technology & Scale-up, Mylan Pharma
Simon Cooper

Sofia Simaria

Lecturer, The Advanced Centre For Biochemical Engineering
Sofia Simaria

Zoltan K Nagy

Professor of Chemical Engineering , Purdue University
Zoltan K Nagy

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Chairman's Opening Remarks

Jesus Zurdo

Jesus Zurdo, Head of Innovation, Biopharma Development, Lonza Biologics

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9:10

Implementing QbD in early development

David Lathbury

David Lathbury, Vice President of Chemical Development, AMRI

  • The foundation stone of QbD is process understanding
  • Many observations made in early development are neglected until later on in development
  • This represents a missed opportunity
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    9:45

    Drug substance design requirements

  • Biopharmaceutical and drug product manufacturing considerations when optimizing drug substance properties
  • Use of modelling tools and institutional knowledge to assist the process 
  • How to efficiently manage the QBD paradigm through the development cycle
  • Michael Leane

    Michael Leane, Principal Scientist, Materials Science, Bristol Myers Squibb

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    10:20

    Morning Coffee

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    10:40

    ICH Q11 - Development & Manufacture of Drug Substances - An Overview

    Keith McDonald

    Keith McDonald, Group Manager , MHRA

  • Describe the scope and purpose of ICH Q11
  • Overview of the content of the guideline
  • Regulatory context of Q11 with other EU guidelines
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    11:15

    Novel feedback control-based Quality by Design approaches for crystallisation processes using composite PAT-array and a crystallisation process informatics system

    Zoltan K Nagy

    Zoltan K Nagy, Professor of Chemical Engineering , Purdue University

  • Application of composite process analytical technology (PAT) array for monitoring crystallisation processes
  • Presentation of the Crystallisation Process Informatics System (CryPRINS) as an intelligent decision support and control system for crystallisation product design
  • Direct design and rapid scale-up of crystallisation processes using concentration feedback control and automated direct nucleation control (ADNC)
  • Application of ADNC for the control of size, shape, polymorphic form and purity of pharmaceutical products
  • Controlling crystal shape distribution using growth modifiers
  • Monitoring and control of continuous crystallisation systems
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    11:50

    Practical statistics for effective QbD in development from design of experiments to design space

    Bruno Boulanger

    Bruno Boulanger, CSO, Arlenda

  • Connecting the dots from the factory floor to the patient outcomes
  • Presenting statistical software solutions to achieve effectively QbD in development
  • Numerous examples on processes, analytical procedures and bioassays
  • Effective implementation of Q8 applied from small molecules to vaccines
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    12:30

    Networking Lunch

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    13:30

    Early risk mitigation approaches for selecting & designing better and safer biopharmaceuticals and avoid downstream complications

    Jesus Zurdo

    Jesus Zurdo, Head of Innovation, Biopharma Development, Lonza Biologics

  • Where ‘research’ meets ‘development’. Selecting and designing quality & functional attributes in lead candidates (pre-process QbD?)
  • Early assessment of developability & safety to reduce attrition and costs
  • In silico tools to predict and tune down developability & immunogenicity issues
  • Early (surrogate) parameters for risk assessment.  When the devil is not in the detail
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    14:10

    QbD for the development of antibody based bio-therapeutics

    Mariangela Spitali

    Mariangela Spitali, Associate Director, UCB

  • In the era of QbD, systematic and data-driven approaches to bio-therapeutics are needed more than ever
  • Such approaches are resource-intensive, costly and contradict the need for being lean and fast, particularly in early development
  • Is it possible to satisfy the “need for speed” in early development without compromising the systematic approach needed for building quality into processes and products?
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    14:50

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:10

    Implementation of DoE methodology for vaccine process development to better understand and efficiently process

    Nicolas Chaudet

    Nicolas Chaudet, Upstream Platform/Fermentation Unit , Sanofi Pasteur

  • Vaccine process : DoE,  an attractive tool to overcome the process development challenges from upstream to formulation and filling steps
  • DoE application : a perpetual compromise between methodology, information expected, scale down model, capacity and timelines
  • Case study : implementation of scale down model combined with DoE for process modelisation and improvement of vaccine manufacturing process at industrial scale
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    15:50

    The use of risk management to ensure the quality of viral vectors for clinical trial use

    Eleanor Berrie

    Eleanor Berrie, Qualified Person, University of Oxford Clinical BioManufacturing Facility

  • How do we ensure full traceability of starting materials for viral vectors?
  • What are the risks associated with the starting material for GMP manufacture of viral vectors?
  • How can the hazards be mitigated?
  • Possible issues due to the novelty of such IMPs and disease targets
  • Our experience to date
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    16:30

    PANEL DISCUSSION: QbD - where are we and what are the prospects for the future?

    Panellists will share strategies to move therapeutic entities from creation to development and commercialisation.  How can scientific evidence and molecular pharmacology best link with manufacturing process parameters and clinical activity relationships?  Improving real-time monitoring, specifications and product analysis for APIs,excipients, biologics and ATMPs to maximise patient benefit will all be considered.

    Jesus Zurdo

    Jesus Zurdo, Head of Innovation, Biopharma Development, Lonza Biologics

    David Lathbury

    David Lathbury, Vice President of Chemical Development, AMRI

    Zoltan K Nagy

    Zoltan K Nagy, Professor of Chemical Engineering , Purdue University

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    17:00

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Peter  Jones

    Peter Jones, Lead, Manufacturing Sciences and Technology, Oxford BioMedica

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    9:10

    New elastomeric formulation and the relevance of QBD in primary packaging

    Heike Kofler

    Heike Kofler, Manager Technical Customer Service Europe, West Pharmaceutical Services

  • Brief overview of Today´s Market Requirements for Primary Packaging Systems
  • New generation elastomeric materials for parenteral applications
  • The implementation of QbD principles in Primary Packaging
  • Benefits using QbD for Primary Packaging Systems
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    9:50

    Decisional tools for the design of robust and cost-effective bioprocesses

    Sofia Simaria

    Sofia Simaria, Lecturer, The Advanced Centre For Biochemical Engineering

  • Decisional tools work carried out in the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in emergent macromolecular therapies             
  • Tools enabling greater process understanding through modelling and optimisation and hence help achieve QbD
  • Demonstration of tools with case studies on the optimisation of purification sequence, equipment sizing and operating parameters of biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    10:50

    Using design of experiment in the lyophilisation of biological materials

    Paul Matejtschuk

    Paul Matejtschuk, Principal Scientist, National Institute For Biological Standards & Control

  • Lyophilization: the process benefits & challenges
  • Application of DoE in formulation development
  • Model studies of DoE in formulation development
  • Considerations for DoE in freeze drying cycle optimisation
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    11:30

    Using QbD & PAT to enhance process understanding

    Gary Montague

    Gary Montague, Head of School & Director, Research Centre in Biopharmaceutical & Bioprocessing Technology, Newcastle University

  • Managing the high dimensional data available from PAT
  • Maximising the information extracted from data
  • Risk-based decision making from available knowledge
  • Understanding the benefits of the approaches
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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:30

    Implementing product and process monitoring in biopharmaceutical manufacturing

    Dave Gervais

    Dave Gervais, Senior Process Scientist, Health Protection Agency

  • Understanding the link between process variables and product quality attributes
  • Demonstration of the effect of process changes on both in-process intermediates and final product quality
  • Utilising historical manufacturing data to establish acceptable ranges for process variables
  • Conducting process validation batches on legacy products, using in-process and final product monitoring
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    14:10

    Formulation problems for inhaled generics

    Simon Cooper

    Simon Cooper, Director, Process Development Technology & Scale-up, Mylan Pharma

  • Defining  the product profile
  • Understanding the design space?
  • Building a design space as applied to blending
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    14:50

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:10

    Process design to process qualification and beyond

    Ronan O'Kennedy

    Ronan O'Kennedy, Head of Cell Culture Process Development, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies

  • Using data in early-phase manufacturing for QbD
  • Benefits for a fuller QbD programme
  • Decreasing QbD timelines by effective use of early phase data
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    15:50

    Improving biotherapeutic recombinant protein yields from mammalian cell expression systems

    Mark Smales

    Mark Smales, Professor of Mammalian Biotechnology, University of Kent

  • Identifying limitations in mammalian cell expression systems
  • Novel approaches to the early selection and identification of high producing cell lines
  • Cell engineering approaches to enhance mammalian cell phenotypes
  • Translation engineering and reduced temperature cultivation
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    16:30

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two

    Peter  Jones

    Peter Jones, Lead, Manufacturing Sciences and Technology, Oxford BioMedica


    Vice President of Chemical Development
    AMRI
    Principal Scientist, Materials Science
    Bristol Myers Squibb
    Group Manager
    MHRA
    Professor of Chemical Engineering
    Purdue University
    CSO
    Arlenda
    Head of Innovation, Biopharma Development
    Lonza Biologics
    Associate Director
    UCB
    Upstream Platform/Fermentation Unit
    Sanofi Pasteur
    Qualified Person
    University of Oxford Clinical BioManufacturing Facility
    Manager Technical Customer Service Europe
    West Pharmaceutical Services
    Lecturer
    The Advanced Centre For Biochemical Engineering
    Principal Scientist
    National Institute For Biological Standards & Control
    Head of School & Director, Research Centre in Biopharmaceutical & Bioprocessing Technology
    Newcastle University
    Senior Process Scientist
    Health Protection Agency
    Director, Process Development Technology & Scale-up
    Mylan Pharma
    Head of Cell Culture Process Development
    Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies
    Professor of Mammalian Biotechnology
    University of Kent
    Lead, Manufacturing Sciences and Technology
    Oxford BioMedica

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    The Copthorne Tara Hotel boasts 745 square meters of flexible meeting space, consisting of the Shannon Suite and the Liffey Suite, ideal for hosting conferences, weddings and social events. Facilities include access to the business centre 24 hours a day, fully equipped fitness room, gift shop, theatre desk and Bureau de Change. With ample onsite parking outside the London congestion charge zone and excellent transport links via Heathrow Airport, the hotel is the perfect location for business or leisure stays. The hotel is within close proximity to the shops of High Street Kensington, Knightsbridge and Westfield London, Olympia Conference Centre, Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Palace and Hyde Park.

     

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