CPhI
Entry to the annual CPhI Pharma Awards for 2015 is now open and there are five new categories, ensuring that the entire pharmaceutical supply chain is covered. Now in their 12th consecutive year, the awards honour companies and individuals driving the pharma industry forward.
This year’s awards are split into eight categories: ‘Best Innovation in Packaging’; ‘Best Innovation in Process and Formulation Development’; ‘Excellence in Partnering & Outsourcing’; ‘Best Innovation in APIs and Excipients’; ‘Best Innovation in Biologic Drug Development and Manufacturing; ‘Innovation in Supply Chain & Logistic Management’; ‘Best Innovation in Manufacturing Technology’; and ‘CEO of the Year’.
The winners will be unveiled live during CPhI Worldwide, taking place 13–15 October in Madrid, Spain.
Entries are now open to both exhibitors and visitors of CPhI Worldwide until 7 August. The finalists will be confirmed on 21 September, with each having a unique profile of their award entry featured in the CPhI Show daily.
At CPhI Worldwide on 13 October, the selected finalists will be invited to deliver a presentation in a dedicated feature area on the show floor, providing a great opportunity for the judges to have a closer inspection and evaluation of the merits of the shortlisted entries. Shortly afterwards, the CPhI independent jury panel will retire to reevaluate and score the entries, before remerging to announce the winners at a prestigious award ceremony later that day.
CPhI Pharma Awards Jury Panel features some of the industry’s most influential and respected figures, the 2015 the panel includes:
• Dr. Hendrik Baumann, Arevipharma GmbH
• Michaël Nieuwesteeg, NVC (Netherlands Packaging Centre)
• Dr. Michael Platscher, Merck & Cie
• Dr. Rene Bommer, pharmAccel Consulting
• Gil Roth, PBOA
• Hillary Ayshford, HCPi Media
• Dr. Didier Bensoussan, AMRI Global
• Gary Norman, DFE Pharma
• Harsh Chauhan, Creighton University
• Veronique Bregeon, Merial – a Sanofi company
Last year, MJR PharmJet was awarded the ‘Formulation’ category for its technology that enables the drug loading of hydrophobic nanoparticles; Locked4Kids BV, and its world first child-resistant carton, won the ‘Best Innovation in Packaging’ category; Catalent Pharma Solutions won the ‘Partnering’ category for their collaboration with Redwood Bioscience; and the ‘Best Innovation in Process Development’ was received by acib’s Catalophor System.
To learn more about the awards, or to submit an award entry, please visit http://www.cphi.com/awards/home.