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

Sunday, September 29, 2024

 
4:00-6:00 pm Vendor Display Set-Up
7:00-9:00 pm Welcome Reception and Registration
   

Monday, September 30, 2024

 
7:00 am – 5:00 pm Registration/Information Desk
7:00 am – 8:00 am Breakfast/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
8:20 am   Session I: Fundamentals of Crystallization
  Chairs: Adam J. Matzger, University of Michigan, and Jeff Rimer, University of Houston
8:20 am  “Towards Understanding the Mechanisms of Synthesis of Zeolites”
 

Valeria Molinero, University of Utah

9:10 am “Bed net crystallography”
 

Bart Kahr, New York University

10:00 am Morning Break
10:20 am  “Crystallization of Imperfect Nanocrystals into Supraparticles with High Complexity.”
 

Nicholas Kotov, University of Michigan

11:10 am Panel Discussion
12:30-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Session 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 pm Afternoon Break
3:30 pm “Myths versus Reality: Smart and Programmable Sponges from Basic Science to Implementation and Commercialization”
  Omar Farha, Northwestern University
4:20 pm Panel Discussion
6:00-11:00 pm

Reception and Banquet

  TBD

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

 
7:15 am – 5:00 pm Registration/Information Desk
7:15 am – 8:15 am Breakfast
8:00 am – 5:00 pm Exhibitor Viewing    
8:20 am Session III: Crystallization Process and Product Design
  Chairs: Deniz Erdemir, Bristol-Meyers-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 am Morning 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 pm Lunch
1:30-4:30 pm Session IV – SnapTalks:  See Below
  Chairs: Nandu Nere , Abbvie; Mahmoud Mirmehrabi, Solid State Pharma, and Daniel Patience, Biogen
   
   
5:00-6:00 pm Vendors Dismantle Displays
5:00-6:00 pm Steering Committee Meeting

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

 
7:15 am – 8:15 am Breakfast
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 pm Adjourn, Box Lunches
   

SnapTalks