Workshop on Dissolution Performance Verification Testing (PVT)

Pasteur Pharmatech Solutions (PPS), the Authorized Distributor of USP, is delighted to invite you to participate in a one-day Workshop on Dissolution Performance Verification Testing (PVT), in collaboration with USP India and Electrolab. This event will be held on Monday, 08 July 2024, at Lotus Lounge, Uttara Club, Dhaka.

This workshop aims to foster direct interactions with industry professionals and academic members to present how it serves as an active tool in Quality Control, routinely utilized to monitor the batch-to-batch consistency of dosage forms thereby maintaining drug safety and efficacy. It is designed to benefit dissolution chemists, analytical chemists, laboratory technicians new to dissolution, professionals involved in calibration & testing, and regulatory professionals.

Workshop Highlights:

• Critical operational parameters for the accurate setup of dissolution apparatus.
• Activities for the proper qualification of USP dissolution apparatus 1 and/or apparatus 2.
• Understanding and mitigating sources of variability in dissolution results.
• Best practices for conducting the Performance Verification Test (PVT) and interpreting results.

Key Topics:

• Importance of apparatus suitability and PVT, with a focus on apparatus.
• Sources of variability in the performance of the dissolution apparatus.
• Best practices for the qualification of dissolution apparatus.

Speaker:

Mr. Mark Liddell, Ph.D.

Senior Manager, Dosage Form Performance Laboratory, USP

Biography: Dr. Mark Liddell is the Senior Manager of Dosage Form Performance Laboratory (DFPL) at USP’s Rockville headquarters. Mark has spent 17 years at USP, pursuing and promoting a deeper understanding of the fundamentals, and sometimes the art, of dissolution science. At USP, Mark’s work has focused on improving the reliability and reproducibility of compendial dissolution and drug release test methods. Mark also supports USP Education course offerings, Reference Standard technical services, USP Dosage Form expert committee, the USP Performance Verification Testing expert panel, and various other internal and external stakeholders as a dissolution/drug release testing expert. Mark’s journey spans over 25 years, dedicated to refining in vitro test methods for dosage forms and drug delivery systems. His academic career began at Westminster College of Salt Lake City where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. Later, he pursued his doctoral degree in Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Utah as part of the Dr. William (Bill) Higuchi research group.

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