- Health and well-being
The organizer of the Nordic POP workshops is the School of Pharmacy at the University of Eastern Finland.
The virtual link and meeting guidelines will be sent by email prior to the event to all registered.
THURSDAY AUGUST 26, 2021
09:00 - 09:15 Opening of the workshop
Assoc. Prof. Teijo Saari, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Turku, Finland
Prof. Jarkko Rautio, School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
09:15 - 10:00 Keynote lecture: Design and clinical evaluation of the hypoxia-activated prodrug PR-104
Prof. William A. Denny, Auckland Cancer Society Research Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand
10:00 - 10:45 Keynote lecture: Multifunctional drugs assembled by oligonucleotides
Prof. Kurt Vesterager Gothelf, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University, Denmark
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:15 Introduction to prodrugs
Adj. Prof. Kristiina M. Huttunen, School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
11:15 - 12:00 Targeting by prodrugs - enzyme-prodrug strategies
Assoc. Prof. Alexander Zelikin, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark
12:00 - 12:45 Focal chemotherapy under bioorthogonal control
Prof. Asier Unciti-Broceta, Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, University of Edinburgh, UK
12:45 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 14:15 Transporter-utilizing prodrugs in brain-targeting
Adj. Prof. Kristiina M. Huttunen, School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
14:15 - 14:30 Introduction to bioconjugates
Dr. Astrid Subrizi, School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
14:30 - 15:15 Molecular engineering of bioconjugates
Dr. Tessa Lühmann, Institute for Pharmacy and Food Chemistry, University of Wurzburg, Germany
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:15 Targeting subcellular trafficking to generate antibody-based therapeutics
Prof. E. Sally Ward, Centre for Cancer Immunology, University of Southampton, UK
FRIDAY AUGUST 27, 2021
CONTINUOUS PROCESSING
10:15 - 11:00 Keynote lecture: Postgraduate studies and industrial collaboration: The Parc (Pharmaceutical Applied Research Center)
Prof. František Štěpánek, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic
11:00 - 11:15 Opening of the workshop
Prof. Jarkko Ketolainen, School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
11:15 - 11:45 Continuous tablet manufacturing – State of Art
Prof. Ossi Korhonen, School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
11:45 - 12:15 UEF PromisLab – Virtual lab tour
Dr. Tuomas Ervasti, School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
12:15 - 12:45 Challenges and opportunities for real-time release testing in continuous tablet manufacturing
Dr. Daniel Markl, Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, UK
12:45 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 14:00 Developing a continuous drug substance manufacturing process
Dr. Cameron Brown, Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, UK
14:00 - 14:30 Computational tools in process design
Dr. Luis Martin de Juan, Astra Zeneca, Sweden
14:30 - 14:45 Coffee break
14:45 - 15:15 Company drivers towards continuous manufacturing – A generic company’s view
Dr. Pawel Stasiak, Zentiva, Czech Republic
15:15 – 15:45 Tackling the challenge of critical material attributes in continuous wet granulation
Dr. Fanny Stauffer, UCB, Belgium
15:45 - 16:15 Process simulation and validation of continuous tableting
Dr. Anssi-Pekka Karttunen, Nanoform, Finland
Contact - scientific content: Astrid Subrizi, School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, +358 50 410 7315, astrid.subrizi@uef.fi