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Freeze Drying Across Industries: From Space Food to Pharmaceutical Stability
Join #FreezeDrying Across Industries to explore expert insights, emerging technologies.
Date20th Oct 2026
Time16:55 – 21:50
PlaceCvent Platform, Online
VenueOnline, Cvent Platform
Price
from€349
Date20th Oct 2026
Time16:55 – 21:50
PlaceCvent Platform, Online
VenueOnline, Cvent Platform
Freeze Drying has become one of the most important technologies for preserving product quality, extending shelf life, and ensuring long-term stability across a diverse range of applications. From supporting food systems for long-duration space missions to enabling the development and manufacture of biologics, vaccines, and sterile pharmaceuticals, lyophilization plays a vital role wherever product integrity is critical.
This international webinar brings together experts from NASA, academia, and the pharmaceutical industry to share scientific knowledge, practical experience, and emerging innovations in freeze drying. Through expert presentations and an interactive panel discussion, participants will explore the science behind successful lyophilization, advances in pharmaceutical development and manufacturing, and the opportunities that cross-industry collaboration can create for the future of product stability.
Speakers
Varadharaj Vijayakumar, DEAssociate DirectorTerumo Pharmaceuticals Services GmbH
Vickie Lynn Kloeris, USFormer NASA Food Scientist
Key points
Understand how freeze-drying strategies differ across the space, food, and pharmaceutical industries.
Identify the critical process parameters that influence product quality, stability, and process robustness.
Apply scientific principles to optimize freeze-drying cycle development and product performance.
Explore practical approaches to formulation development, scale-up, GMP manufacturing, and technology transfer.
Learn how Quality by Design (QbD), process modelling, and digital technologies support process optimisation.
Discover how NASA's approach to long-term food preservation can inspire innovation in pharmaceutical development.
Gain practical insights from industry experts through real-world examples and cross-sector experience.
Explore future trends and emerging technologies shaping the next generation of lyophilization.
Who should attend
Chief Executives, Vice Presidents, Directors, Heads, Leaders, and Managers specializing in:
- Drug Product Development & Formulation Scientists
- Process Development, MSAT & Manufacturing Professionals
- CMC, Technology Transfer & GMP Specialists
- Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC) & Regulatory Affairs Professionals
- Research & Development Scientists
- Food Scientists & Food Preservation Specialists
- Space Food Systems & Life Support Researchers
- Process Engineers, Equipment Manufacturers & Technology Providers
- Biologics, Vaccine & Advanced Therapy Developers
- Academic Researchers
Freeze Drying Across Industries: From Space Food to Pharmaceutical Stability
Join #FreezeDrying Across Industries to explore expert insights, emerging technologies.
Date20th Oct 2026
Time16:55 – 21:50
PlaceCvent Platform, Online
VenueOnline, Cvent Platform
Price
from€349
Past events
4th Freeze-Drying Technology Summit
28th – 29th Apr
Munich, Germany
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