Prof. Pat J. Sandra
Head of Separation Science, Director of the Pfizer Analytical Research Centre
Ghent University
Ghent, Belgium

Website: www.richrom.com

Pat J. Sandra received his M.S. Degree in Chemistry in 1969 and his Ph.D. in Sciences in 1975 from the Ghent University, Belgium. Since then, he has been on the Faculty of Sciences at the same University where he is currently Professor in Separation Sciences at the Department of Organic Chemistry. In 1986 he founded the Research Institute for Chromatography (RIC) in Kortrijk, Belgium, a center of excellence for research and education in chromatography, mass spectrometry and capillary electrophoresis. He is currently also extraordinary professor at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Evora, Portugal and director of the Pfizer Analytical Research Center at the Ghent University.

He is the author or co-author of more than 420 scientific papers with peer review and wrote books on High Resolution GC, Sample Introduction in Capillary GC, Essential Oil Analysis, Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography and Water Analysis.

He was the recipient of several awards and two doctor honoris causa in “Pharmacy” and “Food Chemistry and Safety”.

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Plenary Lecture & Meet the European Regulator Session

Dr. William Keith Leonard Pugh
Expert Pharmaceutical Assessor, Licensing Division
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
London, UK


http://www.mhra.gov.uk

DAY 1

Plenary Lecture:
Elaboration of Pharmacopoeia monographs in the 21 Century

DAY 2

REGULATIONS AND DRUG SUBMISSIONS IN EUROPE:

Part A: Keynote Lecture
Modern trends in assessing the Quality aspects of Marketing Authorisation applications for medicinal products in Europe.

Part B: Meet the Regulator in Public – a Questions and Answers Discussion

With two representatives from the Israeli MOH:

1. Dr. Mimi Kaplan
   Director, Institute for Standardization and Control
   of Pharmaceuticals, Israel MOH
   
2. Dr. Rami Kariv
   Head of GMP Inspectorate, Israel MOH

Participants will have the opportunity to pose ad-hoc questions and pre-submitted questions to the European Regulator. The answers will be given to the audience.
Pre-submitted questions should be addressed to Dr. Raphy Bar at rbar@nevision.net.il.

Part C: Meet the Regulator in Private!
If you or conference-attending representatives from your Company wish to meet Dr. Keith Pugh for a private informal interaction for a few minutes, please submit your request to Dorit Eldar at eldard@bezeqint.net. We will do our best to provide you with this opportunity in the course of the two days.

ANALYTICAL GC-MS WITH SUPERSONIC MOLECULAR BEAMS – THE QUEST FOR ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE GC-MS

Prof. Aviv Amirav
Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Website: www.tau.ac.il/chemistry/amirav/

Email: amirav@tau.ac.il

Prof. Amirav was born in Tel Aviv in 1950. Both B.Sc. (1974) and Ph.D. (direct course, 1979) were received from the Tel-Aviv University, School of Chemistry, with Summa cum Laude.
Since 1980 he is a senior academic stuff (lecturer) at the school of chemistry of Tel-Aviv University (no post doc) and a Professor of Chemistry at Tel Aviv University from 1989.
Prof. Amirav received 2 major international awards:
1. The Heinrich Emanuel Merck Prize for “Achievements in Analytical Chemistry”, given on the work “Pulsed Flame Photometer – A Novel Gas Chromatography Detector” at the opening ceremony of Euroanalysis VIII at Edinburgh Scotland, 1993.
2. HTC Award for “The Most Outstanding and Innovative Work in the Field of Hyphenated Chromatographic Techniques”, given on the development of GC-MS and LC-EI-MS with Supersonic Molecular Beams at the closing ceremony of the HTC 7 meeting in Brugge, Belgium, 2002.
He has 164 peer review papers plus 23 booklets and other non peer review publications and 15 Patents in 58 countries. Two patents on the Pulsed Flame Photometric Detector (PFPD) and ChromatoProbe sample introduction device are commercially available products in worldwide use in broad range of applications.
His current research area is Analytical Instrument Development with emphasis on analytical mass spectrometry with supersonic molecular beams – GC-MS and LC-MS.

RECENT ADVANCES IN THE USE OF LIQUID PHASE SEPARATION TECHNIQUES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF SEIZED DRUGS

Lurie S. Ira
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Dulles, Virginia, USA

Details will follow

Website: www.biomedexperts.com/Profile.bme/855912/Ira_S_Lurie