FIPSE 4.5 – Conference Series in Vaccine Manufacturing

Since FIPSE 5 has been postponed until 2022, conference organizers have annouced FIPSE 4.5, a free webinar series over zoom. The first will take place June 22-23 in 2021. It will consist of a discussion about the goals and mission of the conference series, a presentation on vaccine manufacturing, and an industrial panel. The tentative agenda is:

• The mission of the FIPSE conferences
  • Christos Georgakis, Tufts U.
• FIPSE 1-4: What has been tried and achieved
  • Dominique Bonvin, EPFL
• Presentation on: “Quality by Digital Design for vaccine process development and manufacturing”
  • Cleo Kontoravdi, Imperial College
• Panel discussion with industrial representatives 
  • (to be announced)

To encourage live participation, the webinar will be held twice on consecutive days, for the convenience of multiple time zones:

1. June 22nd for audiences in the USA and Europe 
   • 11:00 – 13:00     Boston Time 
   • 17:00 – 19:00     Central European time
   • 16:00 – 18:00     London Time
   • 08:00 – 10:00     Pacific Time 
2. June 23rd for audiences in Europe and Australasia, 
   • 09:00 – 11:00      London Time 
   • 10:00 – 12:00     Central European time 
   • 16:00 – 18:00     Beijing Time
   • 17:00 – 19:00     Seoul/Tokyo Time  
   • 18:00 – 20:00     Sydney Time
   • 20:00 – 22:00     Auckland Time

Organizers will release more information in the coming days.