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Advancing Sustainable Processes in Pharma and Allied Industries via Green Chemistry Innovations

This symposium highlights outstanding research, applications, and innovations from industry and academia that demonstrate compelling environmental, safety, and efficiency improvements over current technologies. Speakers are invited by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable (GCIPR), the leading global organization dedicated to advancing green chemistry and engineering in pharma and allied industries.

In this symposium, you will hear from recent award winners and recipients of academic research grants from the GCIPR, including:

  • Winner(s) of the Peter J. Dunn Award for Green Chemistry & Engineering Impact in the Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Winner of the CMO Excellence in Green Chemistry Award
  • Winner of the Data Science and Modeling for Green Chemistry Award
  • Winner of the new Green Discovery Chemistry Award
  • Plus, novel innovations that have been developed and incentivized through our grants program

Session Organizers: Paul Richardson, Pfizer; Michael Kopach, Lilly; Isamir Martinez, ACS Green Chemistry Institute.

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This session will be presented at the 29th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, which will be held in Pittsburgh, PA, on June 23-26, 2025. Call for abstracts is open January 3–February 14, 2025. For more information, see www.gcande.org.

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Greener Reaction Systems for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

To meet the global health challenges of the future and advance the goal of good health and well-being for all, the pharmaceutical industry must find ways to minimize the human health and environmental impacts of producing medicines. Conventional methods to produce synthetic medicines are solvent-intensive and often rely on hazardous substances leading to climate and pollution impacts across the pharmaceutical supply chain. There is therefore an urgent need for more sustainable synthetic methods in pharmaceutical manufacturing. This session will explore recent advances in alternative reaction systems that offer sustainability advantages over conventional solvent-intensive systems. Topics may include chemistry in water, biocatalysis, mechanochemistry, electrochemistry, and photochemistry. The session will focus on recent work to overcome practical challenges to applying these reaction systems in pharmaceutical manufacturing. In particular, speakers will highlight the vital role of analytical chemistry in confirming product integrity, purity, and waste stream assessment to enable implementation of these new and emerging technologies.

Session Organizers: Dan Bailey, Takeda; Nnamdi Akporji, Merck; Matt Osborne, AstraZeneca

GC&E Conference

Presented at the

This session will be presented at the 29th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, which will be held in Pittsburgh, PA, on June 23-26, 2025. Call for abstracts is open January 3–February 14, 2025. For more information, see www.gcande.org.

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Greening the Pharma Supply Chain: Innovations for Early, Intermediate, and Raw Material Processes

Sustainability requires collective efforts from all of us to innovate in the face of declining natural resources. To this end, our symposium aims to showcase cutting-edge green chemistry innovations in the production of structure-complex building blocks or intermediates to minimize environmental footprint (scope 3 emissions). The session will highlight contributions from UNDP/EPA, pharma, biotech, CROs, CDMOs, and academic researchers on the more efficient and sustainable ways to manufacture early intermediates/raw materials. Topics included but not limited to:

  • ESG and carbon neutrality 2030 goal.
  • Case studies from CROs/CDMOs and pharma/Biotech companies demonstrating the impact of green chemistry innovations.
  • Academic insights into challenging yet critical chemical transformations in the building block space. Innovations relevant to various focus areas, including flow chemistry, catalysis/biocatalysis, chemistry in water, peptide synthesis, and nucleotide chemistry.
  • Pharmaceutical/biotech’s investigation and sourcing strategy of building blocks.
  • Strategies for selectively synthesizing complex molecules, such as highly substituted benzenes or asymmetric synthesis of small chiral molecules not accessible from the chiral pool, which are often overlooked but essential in process chemistry.

Session Organizers: Feng Peng, Merck; David Leahy, Biohaven; ZhenZhen Dong, PharmaBlock; Thorsten Rosner, J-Star Research/Porton.

GC&E Conference

Presented at the

This session will be presented at the 29th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, which will be held in Pittsburgh, PA, on June 23-26, 2025. Call for abstracts is open January 3–February 14, 2025. For more information, see www.gcande.org.

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