Did you Miss any of AMRI's Causal Nexus Webinars? 

AMRI hosts a weekly cadence of webinars that allows great minds to come together to learn more about the ideas, topics, and trends that are driving the CDMO industry. 

This holiday season, AMRI would like to present you with all of the webinar recordings "wrapped up in a bow." All of the recordings can be found below and can be accessed at any time.  


Episode One: Formulation Development and Clinical Supply of Aseptic Liposomal Formulations 
Presenters:
  • Iain MacGilp, Ph.D., Director, GMP Production, AMRI
  • Amber McFarlane, Head of Formulation Development
Listen as our experts discuss: 
  • The importance of an integrated formulation development and clinical supply function that can support accelerated timelines to clinic, including complex formulations
  • Recent and ongoing experiences in liposomal formulations, with focus on high pressure homogenization
  • Linearity of laboratory to clinical supply scale-up with supporting analytics
  • Broad applicability to variety of product types and presentations (liquid, lyophilized, potent compounds, cytotoxics
 
Episode Two: T3P® - A Versatile Peptide Coupling and Water Removal Reagent
Presenters:
  • Peter Talbiersky, Ph.D., Manager of Fine Chemicals Sales, AMRI
Listen as our experts discuss: 
  • The importance of a green and versatile condensation reagent
  • Safe alternative for commonly used condensation reagents like dicyclohexyl carbodiimide (DCC)
  • Examples showing the advantages of T3P vs commonly used coupling agent

Episode Three: Sterile Drug Product Manufacturing During a Global Pandemic
Presenters:
  • Ankit Agrawal, Senior Director, Commercial Strategy, AMRI
  • Anish Parikh, Vice President, Drug Product Sales & Marketing, AMRI
Listen as our experts discuss: 
  • The shortage of sterile manufacturing capacity within CDMOs given the Covid-19 pandemic
  • The push to keep manufacturing within US borders
  • The immense coordination to work with our clients to find a vaccine for Covid-19
  • The shortage of supplies (components, gowning, etc.)

Episode Four: Strategies for HPAPI Containment to Enable Rapid Development and Production
Presenters:
  • Brian Haney, Ph.D., Director of Technical Operations, AMRI,
  • Iain MacGilp, Ph.D., Director, GMP Production, AMRI
Listen as our experts discuss: 
  • The basics of handling HPAPI's safely in GMP production settings
  • The traditional paradigms of engineering controls
  • How new strategies of single-use containment can speed production process without compromising safety
 
Episode Five: Saving Time in Hit-to-Lead Investigations
Presenters:
  • Mark Wolf, Ph.D., Section Head, Medicinal Chemistry - AMRI
  • Doug Kitchen, Ph.D., Section Head, CADD, Medicinal Chemistry - AMRI
Listen as our experts discuss: 
  • The importance of a strong hit-to-lead program in drug discovery
  • What makes a promising starting point
  • Strategies used to triage hits
Episode Six: Biocatalysts, Biosynthesis, and Fermentation - The Evolution of Chemistry via Biology
Presenters:
  • Pete Michels, Ph.D., Head of Global Fermentation, AMRI
  • Jose Luis Barredo, Ph.D., Director, Engineering Services, AMRI
Listen as our experts discuss: 
  • A brief history of biocatalysis with a look at its current and future growth trends
  • Role of practical process development for synthetic biology, fermentation, and biocatalysis
  • Case studies demonstrating industrial applications of synthetic biology and biocatalysis
  • cGMP and regulatory issues to consider for fermentation and biocatalysis
  • The value of a multi-disciplinary teams in development

Stay Tuned!

AMRI will continue to host more fresh, exciting Casual Nexus webinars in 2021. 

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Ravi Rai, Ph.D.

Presenter
Senior Research Scientist III
AMRI

Ravi Rai received his Ph.D. in carbohydrate chemistry from Utah State University in 2006. He then pursued an industrial post doctorate at a CRO called Organix Inc. in Woburn MA. Rai joined AMRI in 2007 as a Senior Research Scientist in the medicinal chemistry department where he worked on a diverse range of customer projects primarily developing an SAR based library of compounds that had the desired efficacy for the targets that were being pursued. His current role requires him to discuss pre-RFP projects with potential customers, oversee the same projects transition from various phases of development such as route scouting, process development, NCSS and finally into a GMP suite. Rai is also involved with planning and execution of late stage process development including CPP and DOE on various projects.

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Todd Phillips, PharmD, RAC

Presenter
Director, Global Regulatory Affairs
Cardinal Health Regulatory Sciences

Todd Phillips, PharmD, RAC is Director of Global Regulatory Affairs for the Regulatory Sciences division of Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions. Dr. Phillips provides strategic development and regulatory consulting services to a variety of drug and biological product manufacturers. Dr. Phillips has more than 16 years of experience in regulatory affairs, drug development, clinical project management, and product marketing. Prior to joining Cardinal Health in 2011, his experience had been gained at FDA and in varying positions in the pharmaceutical and CRO industries.

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Greig Ross

Presenter
Director of Business Development
PCI Clinical Services

Greig has over 15 years of experience guiding pharma and biotech companies through clinical trials and preparing for commercial launch. Greig’s expertise includes packaging, packaging technology, inventory management, supply planning and new technologies.

Greig has lead the project management and distribution teams for both the US and the UK. He was on the lead team establishing PCI’s clinical business in North America, developing portal design and ERP system customization specific to clinical supplies.

Greig brings a unique perspective based on his global project management knowledge from his various roles within PCI.

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Marisa Reinoso

Host
Marketing Manager
PCI Pharma Services

Marisa has over 14 years of experience bridging life science companies to patients. She began her career researching medical vaccines and solutions to infectious diseases before shifting into marketing. Prior to PCI, she was the marketing manager of Sherpa Clinical Packaging where she implemented marketing programs that established Sherpa as a premier global clinical packager. With the acquisition of Sherpa by PCI, Marisa continues to bring thoughtful educational pieces to the forefront and promote clinical trial services globally. Reinoso has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Reed College and a master’s degree in business administration from Portland State University.

 

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