November 3rd-4th, 2023 – Nicole and Nathaly attended the 46th ACS Senior Technical Meeting where they presented some of their research experiences. Nicole presented “Challenges and difficulties in the development of multivariate calibration models for amorphous API”. She shared her approach to overcome some challenges she is facing during her work in the NASA project…
September 12th, 2023 – This paper shows two case studies where the closed feed frame (a feed frame where the die disc is not turned on) is used as a material sparing approach to develop calibration models for monitoring blend uniformity. Movilla-Meza, N. A.; Sierra-Vega, N. O.; Alvarado-Hernández, B. B.; Méndez, R.; Romañach, R. J.…
Right after our successful IFPAC Summer Summit with INDUNIV, we had Emil Ciurczak’s visit to our UPR-Mayagüez labs and his seminar on “The Making of a Consultant”. Our students and faculty were treated to a fun seminar and Emil’s reflections on a career in consultancy. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rodolfo-romanach-34b2677_nirspectroscopy-careergrowth-careerdevelopment-activity-7106761995390988288-v29y?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
August 29th-30th, 2023 – IFPAC SUMMIT WITH INDUNIV is organized as four half day sessions (quadrants). Quadrant I was about the continuous manufacturing, quality, and Advanced Manufacturing Strategies. Quadrant II End to End Production: PAT & Analytics featured the research of graduate students: Nathaly Movilla Meza, Dhaval Patel, Juan Nasrala Alvarez. We shared our newest…
August 18th, 2023 – The first study on the identification of powdered complex cell culture media was published in collaboration with Karla Echeverría-Altamar, a Ph.D. Candidate from the Bioengineering Program, at the UPRM. The study describes the first efforts to build a spectral library to identify four cell culture media in powder form with spectra…
August 6th, 2023 – Nicole is part of an FDA-funded collaboration that bring together the University of Liege (CiTOS), the University of Puerto Rico, MIT and Northeastern University. Nicole went to CiTOs to familiarize herself with the synthesis component of the project, since she is in charge of the implementation of process analytical technology and…
July 10th, 2023 – Our group visited Janssen Ortho LLC, Gurabo to start talking possible collaborations between us. We would like to thank Vanessa Aviles, Nimaris Rodriguez, Yleana Lugo, Brenda Lopez, Ileana Quiñones, Gustavo Alejandro, Anthony Gonzalez and the entire Janssen team for their valuable time as we learned about their high quality products. We…
June 30th, 2023 – Nicole went to the Crystallization Design Institute (CDI), which operates within the UPR’s Molecular Science Research Center (MSRC). She received the NASA Puerto Rico Space Grant award for the academic year of 2022-2023 with an extension for the summer of 2023. At the CDI, Nicole assisted in the recrystallization processes to…
June 23rd, 2023 – We continued our hands-on trainings on PAT and continuous manufacturing thanks to the support of EDA Award # 01-79-14889. Today we received the visit of 3 associates from BMS-Humacao: Maria Malave, Norberto Alamo and Israel Rivera. We look forward to continuing to collaborate with our pharmaceutical industry. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rodolfo-romanach-34b2677_continuous-activity-7078075137920520192-q3PL/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
June 9th, 2023 – Universities develop talented students and prepare them to move toward new challenges.Good companies retain their highly skilled associates and minimize “personnel turnover”. Universities maximize “turnover” and celebrate it in graduation. We celebrate Barbara Alvarado’s transition to industry. Barbara completed her Ph.D. in our group and worked as a postdoctoral research associate.