AIChE Process Development Division Technology Transfer (Area 12C) Mtg

2003 San Francisco AIChE Annual Meeting

The agenda items for the Technical Transfer area (12c) meeting were general area information, technology transfer sessions in San Francisco, future scheduled sessions, and ideas for future sessions. Key highlights and minutes from this meeting follow.

The tech transfer area chair is John Peragine (from BMS). Annette Johnston (from Abbott) is the chair-elect and Osman Aboul-Nasr (from Fluor) is the activities chair. The new officers for the 2003-2005 term are:

• Annette Johnston - chair
• Osman Aboul-Nasr - chair-elect
• Randy Bridgeman (from Xerox) - activities chair

Welcome to the group, Randy. Congratulations to the new officers! John Peragine becomes past chair of 12c and the new chair-elect of the division as a whole.

VISION - Provide a forum to share and build on technology transfer (TT) principles and experiences of professional colleagues from different disciplines.

MISSION - Generate ideas to develop TT work processes aimed at extracting value from internal and external technology for speedy and cost effective communication and product commercialization.

GOALS - Learn from:

• technical and managerial challenges
• roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities of successful cross functional teams
• intra/inter company TT case studies
• successful projects resulting in cost effective commercialization
• best practices and standardization
• benchmarking
• tools and techniques
• rules of thumb
• modeling
• scale-up and scale-down
• chemicals, food, petroleum, paper, polymers, etc…industries
• TPMs, licensers, universities, and consultants
• creative methods to accelerate process development and manage scale-up risks
• domestic and international sources

There were two sessions at the annual meeting. "Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industry in View of FDA Regulatory Issues" (a Process Analytical Technologies- PAT- session) was chaired by John Peragine and had 7 papers presented. This was followed by a panel discussion. Both the paper session and panel discussion averaged about 100 attendees. "Biopharmaceutical Separations" was co-chaired by Annette Johnston and had 7 papers presented.

There is one session scheduled for the 2004 Spring National meeting in New Orleans. "Barriers to effective technology transfer" will be chaired by Osman Aboul-Nasr. For the 2004 Annual meeting in Austin, as part of the Process Development "Tools" topical session, the tech transfer area will co-sponsor "Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) for Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Applications" (along with group 15b). John Peragine and Dr. Henry Wang (from the Univ. of Michigan) will co-chair this session. There were no sessions planned yet for the 2005 Spring meeting in Atlanta . For the 2005 Fall meeting in Cincinnati, "Pharmaceutical Process Development and Scale-up" will be co-sponsored with group 15b

The group brainstormed potential programming topics within the division and for the 2005 Spring and Fall meetings. The idea of having a collaboration topical session was proposed and discussed. If a chair or champion for this can be identified by the Spring 2004 meeting, then a collaboration session at either of the 2005 meetings may be possible.