G. E. Peck Symposium - October 13, 2005

Garnet E. Peck

The Third Annual Garnet E. Peck Symposium in Industrial Pharmacy was held on Thursday October 13, 2005 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the Holiday Inn Select City Centre in Lafayette, Indiana. The theme for this year's symposium was "Approaches to the Prediction of Dosage Form Design." Dr. Allen Chao, (PhD '73, HDR '2000) gave the opening presentation: The Role of the Pharmaceutical Scientist in Developing Niche Products. Dr. Chao is the founder, president and CEO of Watson Pharmaceuticals. He and his wife, Lee-Hwa Chao (BSPhar '73) have established the Chao Center for Industrial Pharmacy and Contract Manufacturing at Purdue, making Purdue one of only five universities in the country to blend pharmaceutical education and drug manufacturing.

For more information see http://www.thechaocenter.com/.

Other speakers included Michael Doyle, PhD, of Accelrys; Metin Çelik, of Pharmaceutical Technologies International; Alice Martino, of Pfizer, Inc.; Carl Wassgren, associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue; Charles Cunningham of Colorcon North America; and Garnet Peck, professor emeritus of Purdue University.

Metin Çelik, PhD, founder and president of Pharmaceutical Technologies Internal, Inc., was one of the guest speakers at the 3rd annual Peck Symposium. Here he explains the use of artificial intelligence "expert systems" as formulation and process tools to overcome the PAT challenges to Dr. Steve Byrn, head of industrial and physical pharmacy.		Nancy Gibson, secretary of industrial and physical pharmacy, visits with Dr. Alice C. Martino, (BSPhar '80), research scientist with Pharmaceia & Upjohn. Dr. Martino presented on Robust Tablet Design at the 3rd annual Peck Symposium.
Faculty, staff, students, and esteemed guests focus on the presentation of "Near Infrared Monitoring of Roller Compaction" given by Dr. Garnet E. Peck (MS '59, PhD '62).		Drs. Steve Byrn, Ken Morris, Garnet Peck and Joseph Stowell congratulate one another on a successful Peck Symposium.