Times subject to change.  Please continue to check back for updates on the Agenda.

Sunday, September 29, 2024

 
4:00-6:00 pmVendor Display Set-Up
7:00-9:00 pmWelcome Reception and Registration

Monday, September 30, 2024

 
7:00 am – 5:00 pmRegistration/Information Desk
7:00 am – 8:00 amBreakfast/Vendor Display Set-Up
8:00 am – 5:00 pm Exhibitor Viewing
8:00 am Welcome and Announcements

R. Dennis Vigil, Iowa State University, ACT Steering Committee chair  

Mark Barrett, APC

8:30 am  Session I: Fundamentals of Crystallization
 Chairs: Adam J. Matzger, University of Michigan, and Jeff Rimer, University of Houston
8:30 am “Towards Understanding the Mechanisms of Synthesis of Zeolites”

Valeria Molinero, University of Utah

9:20 am“Bed net crystallography”

Bart Kahr, New York University

10:10 amMorning Break
10:25 am “Crystallization of Imperfect Nanocrystals into Supraparticles with High Complexity.”

Nicholas Kotov, University of Michigan

11:15 amPanel Discussion
12:30-1:30 pmLunch
1:30 pmSession II: Emerging and Novel Crystallization Science and Technology
 

Chairs: Christopher Burcham, Eli Lilly, and Eric Sirota, Merck

1:30 pm“Recycling Spent NiMH Batteries for Recovering High Value Metals : Several Routes Towards Innovative Processes by Selective Precipitation”
Beatrice Biscans University of Toulouse
2:20 pm“Nothing is Pure in Crystallization”
Fredrik Nordstrom Boehringer-Ingelheim 
3:10 pmAfternoon Break
3:30 pm“Myths versus Reality: Smart and Programmable Sponges from Basic Science to Implementation and Commercialization”
Omar Farha, Northwestern University
4:20 pmPanel Discussion
7:00-10:00 pmReception and Banquet
Museum of Science
1 Science Park, Boston, MA 02114
Please meet in hotel lobby at 6:45 for the 8min walk to the venue
 TBD

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

 
7:15 am – 5:00 pmRegistration/Information Desk
7:15 am – 8:15 amBreakfast
8:00 am – 5:00 pmExhibitor Viewing    
8:20 amSession III: Crystallization Process and Product Design
 Chairs: Deniz Erdemir, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Zoltan Nagy, Purdue University
8:20 am“A crystal engineering approach to tailor functional properties of food formulations”
Elena Simone, Politecnico di Torino
9:10 am

Integration of crystallization with biocatalysis”                                        Jan von Langermann, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

10:00 amMorning Break
10:20 am“Particle Engineering for a Needle-like Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient, from Thermo Cycling to Spherical Agglomeration”

Yihui Yang, Takeda

11:10 am

Panel Discussion

12:30-1:30 pmLunch
1:30-4:30 pmSession IV – SnapTalks:  See Below
 Chairs: Nandu Nere , Abbvie; Mahmoud Mirmehrabi, Solid State Pharma, and Daniel Patience, Biogen
5:00-6:00 pmVendors Dismantle Displays
5:00-6:00 pmSteering Committee Meeting

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

 
7:15 am – 8:15 amBreakfast
8:20 am

Session V: Crystallization in Digital Space

 

Chairs: Kevin Girard, Pfizer; and Mark Barrett, APC

8:20 am“A Strategy for Digital Transformation of CMC: Cyber-Physical Systems for Accelerated Crystallisation Development”
Alastair Florence, CMAC
9:10 am“Reimagining crystallization process design: A solid-state chemistry perspective”

Susan Reutzel-Edens, Sure Pharma

10:00 am

Morning Break

10:20 am“Advanced Modeling for Next-Gen Pharmaceutical Crystallization Processes”
Christos Xiouras, Janssen 
 Panel Discussion
12:00 pmAdjourn, Box Lunches

SnapTalks