Call for Papers

JPI invites Perspectives, Case Studies, Research Letters, Research Articles, and Reviews in the following categories:

• Materials science
• Process design, optimization, automation, and control 
• Product design 
• Facilities 
• Information management 
• Regulatory policy and strategy 
• Supply chain developments 
• Education and professional development

Potential topics that could fall under the above categories include:

• Biologics 
• Biosimilarities 
• Computers, specifically Web 2.0 
• Continuous processing 
• Drug delivery 
• Facilities 
• Facility design 
• In vivo 
• Industrialization 
• Information Technology (IT) 
• Lean 
• Liposome technology 
• Materials science and products 
• Materials properties 
• Mixing, sampling, segregation, BU review 
• Nanoparticle synthesis (engineering aspects) 
• Nanoparticle technology; issue of solubility, polymorphisms 
• Nanotechnology 
• Novel product forms product design 
• Predictive methods computer approaches 
• Process Analytical Technology (PAT) 
• Process design 
• Process scale-up 
• Processing technology 
• Quality by Design 
• Regulations 
• RFID 
• Small scale (laboratory) to large scale 
• Speed and efficiency 
• Statistical methods and how they apply to processing 
• Statistical methods lean manufacturing applications to product and process design 
• Statistics of drug agglomeration 
• Supply chain 
• Viral

There will be 4 issues in 2009:

• MARCH 2009
  Papers Due: 6 Oct 2008
  Publishes: 10 Mar 2009
• JUNE 2009
  Papers Due: 5 Jan 2009
  Publishes: 10 Jun 2009
• SEPTEMBER 2009
  *Theme: Speed and Efficiency in Pharmaceutical Development
  Papers Due: 6 Apr 2009
  Publishes: 10 Sep 2009
• DECEMBER 2009
  *Theme: Nano/Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology
  Papers Due: 6 Jul 2009
  Publishes: 10 Dec 2009
  

For submission instructions, contact:

Gloria N. Hall
Managing Editor, JPI
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ghall@ispe.org

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Kathleen P. Lyons
Editorial Director
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