8 BPS

With regards to events over and above the FIP Centennial

Congress, preparations for the 2014 Pharmaceutical Sciences

World Congress (PSWC) in Melbourne, Australia are well

underway, with Prof. Ross McKinnon at the helm of the

Organising Committee.

This year, FIP s Special Interest Groups (SIGs) have organised

symposia/workshops in Vietnam, Hungary and Thailand on

Bio­equivalence/Biosimilars/Dissolution testing, with both

science and regulations being addressed in these meetings.

For more information on the activities of each individual SIG

please click their titles below:

Drug Design and Discovery Natural Products Formulation Design and Pharmaceutical Technology Pharmacokinetics (PK), Pharmacodynamics (PD), Absorption,

Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion (ADME)

Translational Research and Individualized Medicines Biotechnology; this SIG currently has 1 focus group: Vaccine Analytical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Quality Regulatory Sciences; this SIG currently has 2 focus groups:

Dissolution/In vitro drug release and BCS and Biowaivers

BPS has also worked with the Young Pharmacists Group (YPG)

Over the course of the 2011­2012 period the BPS has been highly

dedicated to contributing to the success of the FIP Centennial

Congress in Amsterdam and look forward to realising the

outcome of these initiatives in October.