Presentations from the May 10-11 ExcipientFest Conference can be accessed here.

Day 1-Tuesday, May 10
TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP & SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Keynote Speaker: "A Vision for Total Excipient Control" Mr. Steven Wolfgang - Data Analysis Team Leader - FDA CDER (lPEC)

Conference Hall A Presentations:

• "Lipid Chemistry: Novel Approaches for the pharmaceutical Sciences" Mr. Damon Dalrymple -Abitec
• "Highly Flowable & Compactible Microcrystaline Cellulose" Mr. Masayuki Kakizawa - Asahi Kasei
• "Legislative Update; An Industry Perspective" Mr. James Willtraut - Buchannon Ingersoll (lPEC)
• "Co-Processed Excipients: IPEC Guidelines" Mr. Dave Schoneker - Colorcon (lPEC)
• "Co-processing & Modeling Tools for simplifying Modified Release Formulations" Mr. Franz Penz - Meggle

Conference Hall B Presentations:

• Understanding the Total Cost of the Extended Materials Supply Chain" Ms. Londa Ritchey - Pfizer (lPEC)
• "Got Value? Going beyond TCO in your supplier selection process" Mr. Alex Pena - Warner Chilcot (IPEC)
• "The First Aqueous Polymeric Dispersion for Moisture Barrier and Taste Masking Applications" Mr. Nigel Langley - BASF
• "A Superior Excipient for Roller Compaction and Dry Granulation" Mr.Gregory Thoorens - FMC
• "Innovative Ready- to-Use Coating Solutions for Taste Masking Applications with Focus on Process Simplification" Mr. Felix Specht - BioGrund
• "Isomalt in Pharmaceutical Technologies" Mr. Bodo Fritzsching - Beneo Palatinit

Day 2-Wednesday, May 11
EXCIPIENT FUNCTIONALITY & DEVELOPING ISSUES

Conference Hall A Presentations:

• "Effective Cleaning of Time Release & Color Coatings" Mr. James Sullivan - Dober
• "USP Excipient Performance Chapter <1059>: Excipient QbD for Performance and Functionality" Ms. Catherine Sheehan - USP
• "Harmonization - PDG Progress" Ms. Susan DeMars - USP
• "Atypical Actives" Ms. Janeen Skutnik - Pfizer (lPEC)
• "Handling the Overpressure Challenges of Taste-Masked APls" Mr. John Tillotson - SPI Pharma
• "FDA Excipient Library" Ms. Cindy Buhse, Director of Pharm Analysis, Testing & Research, Office of Pharm Science, CDER, FDA (lPEC)
• "Spectroscopic ID Testing" Alan Potts, PhD - USP

Conference Hall B Presentations:

• "Third Party Solutions: IPEA and Excipact"

1. Mr. Irwin Silverstein - IPEA
2. Mr. Dale Carter - Excipact

• "Characterization and Use of an Excipient in Direct Compression Tableting" Mr. James Farina - Mallinckrodt Baker
• "Know your Vital Excipients; Recent Developments Beyond Disintegration with Crospovidone" Mr. Wayne Camarco - ISP Pharma
• "Taste Masking and Moisture Protection" Mr. Abhishek Kathuria - Evonik Polymers
• "Applications of HPMCAS & L-HPC for Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms" Mr. Sakae Obara - Shin-Etsu
• "Elemental Impurities - Excipient Realities" Mr. David Schoneker, Colorcon (lPEC)

 Lunch Speaker - Baltimore Ballroom

• Lunch Speaker - "Excipient Variability and Functionality Testing" Mr. Steve Hoag - University of Maryland (lPEC)