Late Spring 2025
TBA – Europe
About This Conference
Single-Use Technologies VII: Revolutionizing Manufacturing for Tomorrow’s Medicines is the seventh event of an ECI conference series started in 2015 and unique in its aim – to advance knowledge in the fundamental science and engineering underpinning Single-Use Technology (SUT).
The conference will be a 4-day event and will target 100-120 attendees. The speakers and attendees are from industry and academia, single-use final product (e.g., bags, assemblies) manufacturers, film/resin manufacturers, the biopharmaceutical industry, experts in polymers/materials science, manufacturers of novel biomedical devices and organizations that support and facilitate single-use technology design and applications. Regulators are also invited to speak and attend.
This conference builds on the success of the previous editions, targeting highly relevant talks and poster presentations, and networking, with a focus on four key themes:
- Quality Foundations – demonstrates the continued efforts to meet fundamental requirements for single-use technologies and their applications: quality standards and regulatory compliance. Addresses risk-based management approach to validate new product introductions.
- Single-Use Technology Advancements and Enablers – refer to innovations that enhance single-use applications (e.g. new materials, films, sensors, and analytical tools), to the use of single use solutions in the R&D landscape and demonstrate how they improve manufacturing operations (e.g. process intensification, continuous processing)
- Sustainable Solutions in Single-Use Design and Manufacturing – signifies and acknowledges the collective efforts for an industry-wide approach to design and use single-use technology in a sustainable manner.
- Future Perspectives and Emerging Trends – examines the applications to new medicines of single-use technologies, broader developments in single-use design and application, including wider use in R&D, and adjacent technologies that enhance single-use applications in the manufacture of tomorrow’s medicines.
This conference brings together a multidisciplinary community interested in collaborating openly towards the advancement, expansion, and environmentally responsible use of single-use technology in the bioprocessing industry. The organizing committee welcomes the submission of high-quality scientific work, supported by data.
This is the seventh event of the ECI Single Use Technology conference series started in 2015 and unique in its aim – to advance knowledge in the fundamental science and engineering underpinning Single-Use Technology (SUT).
Conference Chairs
Alex DiBenedetto
Roche Genentech
Nelly Montenay
Sartorius
Andrea Rayat
University College London
Previous Conferences in this Series
Single-Use Technologies: Bridging Polymer Science to Biotechnology Applications
October 18-21, 2015
Leesburg, VA, USA
Conference Chairs:
Ekta Mahajan, Genentech, Inc., USA
Gary Lye, Department of Biochemical Engineering, University College London, UK
Single-Use Technologies II: Bridging Polymer Science to Biotechnology Applications
May 7 – 10, 2017
Tomar, Portugal
Conference Chairs:
Ekta Mahajan, Genentech, Inc., USA
Gary Lye, Department of Biochemical Engineering, University College London, UK
Regine Eibl, Zurich University of Applied Science, Switzerland
Single-Use Technologies III: Bridging Polymer Science to Biotechnology Applications
September 23 – 26, 2018
Snowbird, Utah, USA
Conference Chairs:
Weibing Ding, Amgen, USA
Martina Micheletti, University College London, United Kingdom
Robert Repetto, Pfizer, USA
Single-Use Technologies IV Webinar
May 20, May 25, June 1, 2021
Conference Chairs:
Magali Barbaroux, Sartorius, France
Weibing Ding, Amgen, USA
Martina Micheletti, University College London, United Kingdom
Single-Use Technologies V: Building The Future
March 20 – 23, 2022
Marseille, France
Conference Chairs:
Magali Barbaroux, Sartorius, France
Martina Micheletti, University College London, UK
Single-Use Technologies VI: Established, Emerent, Agile, Sustainable?
September 10 – 13, 2023
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Conference Chairs:
Magali Barbaroux, Sartorius, France
Sheryl Kane, Takeda, USA
Seongkyu Yoon, University of Massachusetts, USA
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