Download Call for Papers (PDF) XRD Training for the Pharmaceutical Scientist! The International Centre for Diffraction Data is pleased to announce The 6th Pharmaceutical Powder X-ray Diffraction Symposium in Barcelona, Spain Contributed papers are solicited for the session listed in the preliminary program or any general related topics. Papers may be scheduled for presentation in the evening poster session; those of more general interest will be placed in oral sessions. Please refer to the guidelines for preparing abstracts.

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Monday, 19 February Optional Workshop Exercises in Quantitative Phase Identification Tuesday, 20 February Time Type Title of Paper Speaker & Affiliation 9.00-9.30   WELCOMING REMARKS & INTRODUCTIONS John Faber, International Centre for Diffraction Data, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, USA   XRPD Structural Techniques (Acquisition and Use of XRPD Data, Indexing, Structure Determination, Rietveld Refinement) Session Chair: A. Kern, Bruker AXS GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany 9.30-10.30 Invited QUANTITATIVE PHASE ANALYSIS OF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOUNDS BY THE WHOLE-PATTERN DECOMPOSITION METHODS Didier Clénet, Sanofi-Aventis, Vitry-sur-Seine, France 10.30-11.00 Contributed DO 'STANDARD' DIRECT METHODS STILL HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY IN XRPD STRUCTURE DETERMINATION OF MOLECULAR SOLIDS? Kenneth Shankland, CCLRC, Rutherford Appleton Lab, Chilton, Oxon, UK 11.00-11.30 Break     11.30-12.00 Contributed RE-EXAMINING STRUCTURE AND CRYSTALLINITY IN CELLULOSE Timothy Fawcett, International Centre for Diffraction Data, Newtown Square, PA, USA 12.00-12.30 Contributed STRUCTURE ANALYSIS FROM POWDER DIFFRACTION DATA SUPPORTED BY TOTAL ENERGY CALCULATIONS Max Petersen, Accelrys, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA   Powder Diffraction Using Synchrotron Sources for Pharmaceutical Problems Chair: P. Stephens, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA 12.30-13.30 Invited POWDER DIFFRACTION USING SYNCHROTRON SOURCES FOR PHARMACEUTICAL PROBLEMS Peter Stephens, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA 13.30-15.00 Lunch     Afternoon Complementary Techniques Session Chair: R. Suryanarayanan, University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy, Minneapolis, MN, USA Time Type Title of Paper Speaker & Affiliation 15.00-16.00 Invited COMBINED XRD AND RAMAN COMBINATORIAL SCREENING Arnt Kern, Bruker AXS, Karlsruhe, Germany 16.00-16.30 Break     16.30-17.00 Contributed X-RAY DIFFRACTION AND COMPLEMENTARY ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES INCLUDING MICROSCOPY, RAMAN, AND SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING Linda Sauer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA 17.00-17.30 Contributed HOW TO COMBINE PXRD, RAMAN AND OTHER 1-D DATA IN HIGH THROUGHPUT POLYMORPH/SALT/CO-CRYSTAL STUDIES Christopher Gilmore, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK Evening (18.30-21.00)                                                    Poster Session Title of Paper Speaker & Affiliation USAGE OF AN ADVANCED FULLPAT METHOD TO QUANTIFY AMORPHOUS MATERIAL Detlef Beckers, PANalytical, Almelo, The Netherlands WHEN KEEN OBSERVATION SAVES YOU MONEY Zvicka Deutsch, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel VALIDATING CRYSTAL STRUCTURES SOLVED FROM POWDER DIFFRACTION DATA USING THE dSNAP SOFTWARE Christopher Gilmore, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK POWDER X-RAY DIFFRACTION IN THE RANGE 2 THETA < 15° (lambda = 0.154nm) Thomas Holz, AXO DRESDEN GmbH, Heidenau, Germany XRPD FOR NONDESTRUCTIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF SOLID DOSAGE FORMS Vladimir Kogan, DANNALAB & PANalytical, Almelo, The Netherlands X-RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION PATTERN OF IMIPENEM MONOHYDRATE Fangling Needham, International Centre for Diffraction Data, Newtown Square, PA, USA SOLID STATE CHARACTERIZATION OF A POTENTIALLY ACTIVE BENZOTHIAZOL DERIVATIVE Marco Pallagrosi, Industria Farmaceutica Serono S.p.A., Guidonia Montecelio (RM), Italy CRYSTAL STRUCTURE DETERMINATION FROM POWDER X-RAY DIFFRACTION DATA Liesbeth Theunissen, Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Beerse, Belgium Wednesday, 21 February Morning Formulation, Product Development, Drug Delivery and Polymorph and Salt Screening Session Chair: G. Stephenson, Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA Time Type Title of Paper Speaker & Affiliation 9.00-10.00 Invited PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF SOLID STATE ATTRIBUTES DURING DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT Srini Venkatesh, Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, NY, USA 10.00-11.00 Invited USE OF X-RAY POWDER DIFFRACTOMETRY IN DRUG DISCOVERY, PREFORMULATION AND DRUG PRODUCT CHARACTERIZATION Raj Suryanarayanan, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA 11.00-11.30 Break     11.30-12.00 Contributed X-RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION AT THE HEART OF PHYSICAL FORM DISCOVERY IN CPOSS Alastair Florence, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK 12.00-12.30 Contributed TBD TBD 12.30-13.00 Contributed HIGH RESOLUTION, HIGH THROUGHPUT X-RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION (HR HT XRPD) EXPERIMENTS AND DATA ANALYSIS Detlef Beckers, PANalytical, Almelo, The Netherlands 13.00-13.30 Contributed QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF MIXTURES USING HIGH THROUGHPUT INSTRUMENTATION WITHOUT THE USE OF STANDARDS Christopher Gilmore, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK 13.30-13.30- 15.00 Lunch     Afternoon Patent and Regulatory Issues Chair: P.Varlashkin, GlaxoSmithKline, Durham, NC, USA Time Type Title of Paper Speaker & Affiliation 15.00-16.00 Invited TRENDS IN SOLID FORM PATENTS: COCRYSTAL IP OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES Eyal Barash, Aptuit Consulting, West Lafayette, IN, USA 16.00-16.30 Break     16.30-17.00   An Invitation to Participate in an XRD Round Robin John Faber, International Centre for Diffraction Data, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, USA Thursday, 22 February Morning New Frontiers for XRD in Pharmaceutical R&D Session Chair: J. Han, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA Time Type Title of Paper Speaker & Affiliation 8.30-9.30 Invited CHARACTERIZATION OF INTACT PHARMACEUTICAL FILM-COATED TABLETS BY MICRODIFFRACTOMETRY Hiroyuki Yamada, Mitsubishi Pharma Co., Kamisu, Ibaraki, Japan 9.30-10.30 Invited THE ROLE OF PXRD IN QbD AND PAT Shawn Yin, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., New Brunswick, NJ, USA 10.30-10.45 Break     10.45-11.15 Contributed CHARACTERIZATION OF INSULIN MICROCRYSTALS IN PHARMACEUTICAL SUSPENSIONS Mathias Norrman, Novo Nordisk, Bagsvaerd, Denmark 11.15-11.45 Contributed GEOMETRY AND CONFIGURATION OF XRD SYSTEMS FOR PHARMACEUTICAL Bob He, Bruker AXS, Madison, WI, USA 11.45-12.15 Contributed NON-AMBIENT CONDITIONS X-RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION IN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY Olaf Grassmann, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland 12.15   Q&A/Closing Remarks   Organizing Committee Dr. John Faber, Chair, International Centre for Diffraction Data, Newtown Square, PA, U.S.A. Dr. Detlef Beckers, PANalytical, Almelo, The Netherlands Dr. Harry G. Brittain, Center for Pharmaceutical Physics, Milford, NJ, U.S.A. Dr. Julien Giovannini, AstraZeneca, Lund, Sweden Dr. Jun Han, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc., Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. Dr. Arnt Kern, Bruker AXS GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany Terry Maguire, International Centre for Diffraction Data, Newtown Square, PA, U.S.A. Leah Mooney, International Centre for Diffraction Data, Newtown Square, PA, U.S.A. Dr. Fangling Needham, International Centre for Diffraction Data, Newtown Square, PA, U.S.A. Dr. Kenneth Shankland, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxon, U.K. Dr. Peter W. Stephens, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, U.S.A. Dr. Gregory A. Stephenson, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A. Dr. Raj Suryanarayanan, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A. Dr. Peter G. Varlashkin, Metrics, Inc., Greenville, NC, U.S.A. Dr. Shawn Yin, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A. ICDD X-ray Clinics If you would like further training on X-ray powder diffraction or X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, join the ICDD for its annual clinics: Practical X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry - 30 April-4 May 2007 Fundamentals of X-ray Powder Diffractometry - 4-8 June 2007 Advanced Methods in X-ray Powder Diffractometry - 11-15 June 2007 Visit our web site at www.icdd.com/education for information or e-mail: clinics@icdd.com . Denver X-ray Conference 30 July - 3 August 2007, Sheraton Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A. Attendees to the World's largest X-ray conference will have access to sessions on the latest advancements in XRD and XRF. Workshops are run by experts who provide TRAINING and EDUCATION on many PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS of X-ray fluorescence and X-ray diffraction techniques for the study of materials. Visit our web site at www.dxcicdd.com or e-mail: dxc@icdd.com   Optional Workshop 19 February 2007 Exercises in Quantitative Phase Identification Poster Session 20 February 2007 An evening reception and poster session of submitted papers will be held at the Barcelo Hotel Sants. See guidelines for submission of abstracts for information on submitting a poster. Accommodations Barceló Hotel Sants Pl. dels Països Catalans s/n 08014 Barcelona Spain Tel: +34/93/503 53 00 Fax: +34/93/490 60 45 Web: www.bchoteles.com E-mail: sants@bchoteles.com A block of rooms has been reserved for symposium guests at the Barceló Hotel Sants at a special PPXRD rate of 110 € for a single room and 120 € for a double room, plus 7% VAT per room, per night. A complimentary buffet breakfast is included in the room rate. Please mention group name PPXRD-6 when making your reservations to receive the special room rate. Cancellation Policy A 50% refund will be issued, if the cancellation is received by the ICDD in writing no later than 15 January 2007 . No refunds will be issued for cancellations received after that date, however, you may transfer your registration to a colleague with advance notice. Symposium Deadlines Submission of Abstracts: 1 October 2006 Symposium Early Registration: 1 November 2006 Symposium Registration: 1 January 2007 Symposium Registration Cancellation: 15 January 2007 Hotel Reservations for Group Rate: Call for Papers Submission of Abstracts Deadline: 1 October 2006 Contributed papers are solicited for the session listed in the preliminary program or any general related topics. Papers may be scheduled for presentation in the evening poster session; those of more general interest will be placed in oral sessions. Please refer to the guidelines for preparing abstracts in this brochure. Exhibition 20-21 February 2007 Concurrent with the symposium and evening poster session and reception will be a commercial exhibition of analytical instrumentation and related products and services. Exhibitors are invited to inquire about exhibit reservations and sponsorship opportunities. Stay Informed For the latest symposium information: Visit www.icdd.com/ppxrd or Phone: +610-325-9814 Fax: +610-325-9823 E-mail: ppxrd@icdd.com To receive a brochure, e-mail your mailing address to ppxrd@icdd.com Information on Past PPXRD Symposiums PPXRD-5 February 14-16, 2006 PPXRD-4, February 21-24, 2005 PPXRD-3, February 23-25, 2004 PPXRD-2, December 9-12, 2002 PPXRD-1 - September 27-29, 1999 PPXRD-5 | Program | Register | Details | Abstracts | Exhibitors | Contact   .