VCU College of Engineering hosts second annual Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Day
Sponsored by the Build Back Better Regional Challenge, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Day brought together students, researchers and industry partners interested in advancing the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. The day-long event, which took place on Sept. 6 2024, consisted of talks, interactive discussions, technical presentations and a poster session, all centered around the theme of Translating Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Innovations from the Bench to Communities.
Bridging the gap between scientific findings and the broader public is the central concept of Innovations from the Bench to Communities, remembering the goal of pharmaceutical manufacturing is to improve health outcomes for all. A key part of ensuring the health of our communities can be done by translating complex scientific research and developments into language and strategies that folks outside the scientific community can understand and utilize.
Author and keynote speaker, Rosemary Gibson, opened the event with a talk on what pharmaceutical manufacturing means to communities. She emphasized the importance of domestic manufacturing to address quality control concerns in life-saving medicines.
Invited speakers addressed the integration of community into research framework, access to safe and affordable medicines, machine learning in pharmaceutical development and Virginia as a leader in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Plenary Speakers
Rosemary Gibson
Author
China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine
Frank Gupton, Ph.D.
Floyd D. Gottwald, Jr. Chair in Pharmaceutical Engineering
Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering
Invited Speakers
Vanessa B. Sheppard, Ph.D.
Professor and Interim Founding Dean
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Public Health
Barbara Exum, PharmD.
Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Compounding Practice and Research
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy
Catherine Ingrassia, Ph.D.
Professor and Dean
College of Humanities and Sciences
Charles McGill, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering
In 2022, stakeholders in the Richmond-Petersburg region, including Virginia Commonwealth University, were awarded nearly $53 million as winners of the Build Back Better Regional Challenge. This funding, which came from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration, has gone toward pharmaceutical manufacturing research and development.
Funding from the Build Back Better Regional Challenge has made events like Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Day possible.
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Categories Chemical & Life Science Engineering