Congratulations to Jose Puche Mercado
December, 2022 – Congratulations to Jose Puche Mercado, who has now completed his Ph.D. Doctoral exam, and is now a Ph.D candidate.
Diplomado Pharma 4.0
November 17th, 2022 – Several group members will be presenting a short course on Continuous Manufacturing via web lectures to the Diplomado Pharma 4.0 “Herramientas para la mejora de procesos y la productividad en la industria farmacéutica” intensive training organized by the Colegio Nacional de Químicos Farmacéuticos de Colombia.
Transforma Technology Meeting
November 4th, 2022 – Transforma technology meeting held at the Caribe Hilton in San Juan. Professor Rodolfo J.Romañach presented “Process Analytical Technology and Advanced Pharmaceutical Manufacturing”, TRANSFORMA is a series of conferences and events to educate on digital transformation, as well as for the exchange of solutions and knowledge management. The implementation of technology must…
Forward Research Symposium
November 3th, 2022 – Graduate student Raúl S. Rangel-Gil presented a poster on: “Assessment of blend uniformity in a stream sampler device using a portable Raman spectrometer”, at the Forward Research Symposium held at the Fairmont San Juan Hotel and sponsored by the Puerto Rico Science and Technology Research Trust. Professor Romañach also presented a…
19th Annual IFPAC® Summit with INDUNIV
November 1st-2nd, 2022 – 19th Annual IFPAC® Summit with INDUNIV, held at the Courtyard Marriott in Isla Verde, Carolina, Puerto Rico. This conference brings together Puerto Rico’s top pharmaceutical scientists focused on improving pharmaceutical processes. The following poster presentations were made at the IPFAC conference: “Closed feed frame: a novel option to reduce material amount…
AAPS Meeting
October 18 – 20: Professor Romañach presented “Understanding the Sources of Error in PAT Methods That Monitor Continuous Processes” at the Symposium on Novel Manufacturing approaches in the AAPS meeting in Boston, organized by Maria T Cruanes.
NASA PR Space Grant Fellowship
July 8th, 2022 – Graduate student Nicole M. Torres Colón, received a NASA PR Space Grant Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year.
IFPAC 2022 Conference in North Bethesda
June 12, 2022: Professor Romañach presented “Reducing and Estimating Sampling Errors in PAT Applications”, a 3-hour short course at the IFPAC 2022 Conference in North Bethesda, MD. June 15, 2022: Professor Romañach shared the session on Incentives and Business Cases at the IFPAC 2022 Conference in North Bethesda, MD.
10th World Conference on Sampling and Blending
May 31 – June 2, Professor Romañach, participated in the 10th World Conference on Sampling and Blending held in Kristiansand, Norway, where he presented: Differentiating analytical error from sampling errors in PAT methods through variographic analysis, co-authored by: Jose Puche, Nobel O. Sierra-Vega, and Professor Rafael Méndez.
Development and Application of a Business Case Model for a Stream Sampler in the Pharmaceutical Industry
March 23, The publication: Development and Application of a Business Case Model for a Stream Sampler in the Pharmaceutical Industry, is now on-line in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Innovation. Abstract: A template to prepare a business case for Process Analytical Technology (PAT) and Continuous Manufacturing (CM) projects is presented in this study. Business cases are…