PROGRAM

DAY ONE

Monday, 20 June 2022

Confirm you arrival and pick-up your name-tag. 
Venue: Porthania Atrium, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

Prof. Clare Strachan, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki
Prof. Jouni Hirvonen, Vice-Rector, University of Helsinki

Venue: Auditorium PII, 1st floor, Porthania building, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

SESSION I
Single stream

AMORPHOUS SYSTEMS I

Student & postdoc presentations
Chairs: TBA
Venue: Auditorium PII, 1st floor, Porthania building, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

Refresh yourself with coffee and snacks.

SESSION II
Parallel session A

POWDERS AND TABLETS I

Student & postdoc presentations
Chairs: TBA
Venue: Auditorium PII, 1st floor, Porthania building, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

SESSION II
Parallel session B

SOLID DISPERSIONS

Student & postdoc presentations
Chairs: TBA
Venue: Suomen Laki Auditorium, 1st floor, Porthania building, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

12:20 - 13:20

SESSION III
Parallel session A

13:20 - 14:40

POWDERS AND TABLETS II

Student & postdoc presentations
Chairs: TBA
Venue: Auditorium PII, 1st floor, Porthania building, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

SESSION III
Parallel session B

AMORPHOUS SYSTEMS II

Student & postdoc presentations
Chairs: TBA
Venue: Suomen Laki Auditorium, 1st floor, Porthania building, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

SESSION IV
Single stream

15:10 - 16:30

ANALYTICS I

Student & postdoc presentations
Chairs: TBA
Venue: Auditorium PII, 1st floor, Porthania building, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

16:40 - 17:40

CITY RECEPTION

Helsinki city officials will welcome the symposium participants.

Venue: Old Court House, Aleksanterinkatu 20, Helsinki

Tuesday, 21 June 2022

SESSION V
Single stream

FORMULATION

Student & postdoc presentations
Chairs: TBA
Venue: Auditorium PII, 1st floor, Porthania building, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

SESSION VI
Parallel session A

PROCESSING

Student & postdoc presentations
Chairs: TBA
Venue: Auditorium PII, 1st floor, Porthania building, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

SESSION VI
Parallel session B

ANALYTICS II

Student & postdoc presentations
Chairs: TBA
Venue: Suomen Laki Auditorium, 1st floor, Porthania building, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

SESSION VII
Parallel session A

FORMULATION AND 3D PRINTING

Student & postdoc presentations
Chairs: TBA
Venue: Auditorium PII, 1st floor, Porthania building, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

SESSION VII
Parallel session B

SOLID DISPERSIONS AND PROCESSING

Student & postdoc presentations
Chairs: TBA
Venue: Suomen Laki Auditorium, 1st floor, Porthania building, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

SESSION VIII
Single stream

DRUG RELEASE AND SOLUBILITY

Student & postdoc presentations
Chairs: TBA
Venue: Auditorium PII, 1st floor, Porthania building, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

Sauna is optional. Dinner starts at 19.00.
Venue: Ravintola Unisaari, Pohjoinen Uunisaari 2, Helsinki

Wednesday, 22 June 2022
PSSRC & Industry

Current PSSRC perspectives on solid-state pharmaceutical development

Confirm your arrival and pick-up your name-tag. 
Venue: Porthania Atrium, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

Prof. Clare Strachan, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki

Prof. Jari Yli-Kauhaluoma, Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki

Venue: Auditorium PII, 1st floor, Porthania building, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

SESSION I
Amorphous
pharmaceuticals

Venue: Auditorium PII, 1st floor, Porthania building, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

Chairs: Prof. Leena Peltonen, Prof. Tapani Viitala

9:10 - 09:40

Prof. Thomas Rades, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
"Amorphous drugs – what can we learn from their properties to successfully make amorphous formulations"

9:40 - 10:00

Dr. Kārlis Bērziņš, Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, New Zealand
"Low-frequency Raman spectroscopy as an avenue to determine the transition temperature of β and γ-relaxation in pharmaceutical glasses"

10:00 - 10:30

Prof. João Pinto, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Portugal
"TBA" 

10:30 - 10:35

Industrial Sponsor

TBA

10:35 - 11:10

SESSION II
Solid dosage forms

Venue: Auditorium PII, 1st floor, Porthania building, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

Chairs: Prof. Anne Juppo/Prof. Timo Laaksonen, Elina Harju

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11:10 - 11:40

Prof. Robert Luxenhofer, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland
"Injectable ultra-high drug formulations – development and performance"

11:40 - 12:10

Dr Jens Bartsch, Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, University of Dortmund, Germany

"Hot-melt extrusion process design: spotlight on the residence time distribution"

12:10 - 12:40

Assoc. Prof. Amrit Paudel, Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering (RCPE) and Institute of Process and Particle Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Austria
"Connecting dots of dry powder inhalation (DPIs) development: A companionship among particles, properties, processing, and performance"

12:40 - 12:45

Industrial Sponsor

TBA​

12:45 - 12:50

Industrial Sponsor

TBA​

12:50 - 14:00

Time to refill your batteries.

SESSION III
Analytical
advances

14:00 - 14:30

Venue: Auditorium PII, 1st floor, Porthania building, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki

Chairs: Prof. Clare Strachan, Dr João Pedro Martins

Prof. Ben Boyd, Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Australia
"In situ monitoring of drug solid state during digestion of lipid formulations"

14:30 - 15:00

Dr Prince Bawuah, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
"The genesis of non-destructive terahertz porosity measurement: its applications in oral solid dosage forms manufacture and characterisation"

15:00 - 15:20

Dr Teemu Tomberg, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, Finland
"Quantitative Chemically Specific Imaging for Material and Life Sciences (qCSI) – a new infrastructure for pharmaceutical analysis"

15:20 - 15:30