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Issue Highlights
- Emil Ciurczak on the limits of PAT and NIR
- Using MVA to optimize biopharmaceutical processes
- Upcoming webcast to provide PAT answers

PAT in Perspective: Drugs Are Not Potato Chips
Although PAT and technologies like NIR are important, there still are things that they cannot do, concedes NIR expert Emil Ciurczak. Are advocates within the industry suspending rational and much needed skepticism, he asks, when they talk about eliminating final product stability testing altogether?

Microreactors, MVA and Biopharma Process Optimization
Invitrogen is now using SimCel's automated cell culture system for contract biopharma process development. The micro bioreactors allow users to apply the principles of process intensification and multivariate analysis to optimize process conditions.

Raman Microscopy: An Essential Aid in Characterizing Drug Delivery Products
Raman microscopy provides information about molecular organization and crystalline order at the resolution of optical microscopy at the sub-micron scale, and is being used to characterize drug delivery materials. This white paper by Horiba Jobin Yvon discusses the mapping of creams, timed-release solids and stents, and how Raman maps provide hyperspectral cubes from which images can be reconstructed that show distribution, dissolution and molecular associations.

NSF Funds Engineering Research Center's July 1 Launch

Malvern Acquires Spectral Dimensions

Pfizer's Catalyst Wins Microsoft Accolade for Manufacturing

Save the Date — Webcast Alert!

Coming Sept. 12 to a computer near you! Pharmaceutical Manufacturing will present "Succeed with PAT in Drug Scaleup and Manufacturing," a one-hour webcast on best practices, industry trends and financial drivers. Registration will open soon — visit www.pharmamanufacturing.com for updates.

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Coming Events

Take an Online Course from Stevens, Get a Discount from Us
Classes begin Sept. 6

Deadlines Loom for Analytics Groups' Calls for Papers
Sept. 18, IFPAC; Sept. 30, Industrial Tomography Conference

IQPC's PAT Implementation Strategies for Biotechnology
Oct. 23-25, Del Mar, Calif.

Yokogawa Technology Innovation Fair
Nov. 29-Dec. 1, Houston, Texas

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