29 March - 31 March 2023

39th SCI Process Development Symposium

Organised by:

SCI's Fine Chemicals Group

Churchill College, Cambridge, UK

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Process Development is the application of chemistry to the scale up of new synthetic processes from the laboratory, through pilot plant to full scale commercial manufacture and into life cycle management. It is an extremely broad discipline, crossing the boundaries between synthetic organic chemistry, process technology and chemical engineering.

The area of Process Development continues to be a challenging and important area for the research into and application of modern synthetic organic chemistry, as well as enabling technologies.  


Attendees

The symposium aims to bring together a wide range of speakers from across the Pharmaceutical, Agrochemical and Fine Chemical industries, as well as from an academic background. This meeting brings together experts from across the entire spectrum of the discipline to present state of the art process development. 


Accommodation

 Accommodation is now sold out.

En-suite accommodation can be booked for delegates at the college. Bedrooms will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. The accommodation package is for 2 nights – Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 March and includes full English or Continental breakfast plus an evening meal on Wednesday 29 March. Rooms must be vacated by 10.00am on the day of departure. Those not wishing to stay in college accommodation can book accommodation directly through www.visitcambridge.org

Please note: Bedrooms at the college will be available from 14:00 on the day of arrival.


Exhibition and Sponsorship

For further information and prices, please email conferences@soci.org.


Programme

Wednesday 29 March

11:00
Registration and refreshments
12:15
Lunch and exhibition
CHAIRPERSON: Dr Hazmi Tajuddin, Syngenta, UK
13:25
Opening remarks
13:30
Process research and development of a herbicide candidate dioxopyritrione
Dr Helmars Smits, Syngenta, Switzerland
14:10
Early Process Development and Scale-Up of Orally Active Apomorphine Drug Candidates.
Dr Ekaterina Melikhova, CatSci, UK
14:50
Development and Scale up of an ERED/KRED Biocatalytic cascade towards the synthesis of BMS-986278
Dr Shane McKenna, BMS, UK
15:30
Refreshment break and exhibition
CHAIRPERSON: Dr Robert Walton, Pfizer, UK
16:10
Process enablement of COVID-19 oral inhibitor nirmatrelvir at unprecedented speed from milligrams to metric tons in 18 months
Dr Chris Allais, Pfizer Groton, USA
16:50
Your chemistry has got potential: highly reactive intermediates without the “bang”
Dr Kevin Lam, University of Greenwich, UK
17:30
Closing remarks
17:45
Wine reception sponsored by Chiralquest
19:00
Dinner for residents

Thursday 30 March

CHAIRPERSON: Dr Max Espensen, Pharmaron, UK
09:00
Complex anion chemistry in API synthesis
Dr Adam Gammack, Pharmaron, UK
09:40
Rapid investigation of approaches to a Nirmatrelvir starting material that avoid cryogenics
Dr David Daniels, Pfizer, UK
10:20
Refreshment break and exhibition
CHAIRPERSON: Dr David Lathbury, Astute Chemical Development Ltd, UK
10:50
Case studies for stacked CSTRs: scalability and opportunities
Dr Nikolay Cherkasov, Stoli Chem
11:30
Development of a scaleable route to the novel KRASG12C inhibitor AZD4625
Dr Mathew Tatton, AstraZeneca, UK
12:10
Lunch and exhibition
CHAIRPERSON: Dr Hilmar Weinman, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Belgium
13:10
Development of a scaleable transaminase process for highly volatile substrates
Dr Katharina Neufeld, Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V., Belgium
13:50
BAY 1163877 – complexity without chirality. A process R&D case study
Dr Joerg Gries, Bayer, Germany
14:30
Toward a safe and scalable preparation of 3-(3-methoxyisoxazol-5-yl)propanoic acid
Dr Cédric Bürki, Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Switzerland
15:10
Refreshment break and exhibition
CHAIRPERSON: Dr Matt Burns, AstraZeneca, UK
15:40
Continuous processing for oligonucleotide building blocks
Dr Heena Panchal, AstraZeneca, UK
16:20
Process chemistry award winner 2022 - New Synthetic Methodology for Sustainable Synthesis
Professor Tom Sheppard, University College London, UK
17:20
Closing remarks
17:30
Wine reception
19:00
Symposium dinner

Friday 31 March

CHAIRPERSON: Dr Richard Horan, GlaxoSmithKline, UK
09:00
Development of a phosphorylative activation for the synthesis of BET inhibitor GSK525762
Miss Rhiannon Jones, GlaxoSmithKline, UK
09:40
Clinical manufacture of a high-potency API
Dr Stephen Bell, Almac, UK
10:20
Refreshment break and exhibition
10:50
Opportunities in Discovery Process Chemistry at MSD
Dr Tiffany Piou, MSD, USA
11:30
Conference close

Venue and Contact

Churchill College

Storey's Way
Cambridge
CB3 0DS

Conference Team

Tel: +44 (0)20 7598 1561

Email: conferences@soci.org


Fees
Early bird - ends 27 Jan 2023
SCI Member - £395
Non-member - £440

After early bird
SCI Member - £510
Non-member - £565

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Sponsors

Gold Exhibitors

Silver Exhibitors
  • AS-Tec Chemicals

  • Pharmaron

  • Sinocompound


Bronze Exhibitors
  • abcr UK 

  • Key Organics

  • Radleys

  • Science Solutions Recruitment

  • Almac

  • Asymchem

  • Biopharma

  • CatSci


Organising Committee
  • Max Espensen, SCI/Pharmaron

  • Richard Horan, SCI/GlaxoSmithKline

  • Dave Lathbury, SCI/Astute Chemical Development Ltd

  • Hazmi Tajuddin, SCI/Syngenta

  • Robert Walton, SCI/Pfizer

  • Hilmar Weinman, SCI/Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson

  • Matt Burns, SCI/AstraZeneca

Webpage photo kindly provided courtesy of Boehringer Ingelheim.