The
World
Batch Forum (WBF, Orlando, FL, www.wbf.org)
has announced two
awards to leading professionals in the field of process automation and
manufacturing. The Dr. Guido Carlo-Stella Award to John F.
MacGregor,
PhD, professor, department of chemical engineering at McMaster
University (Hamilton, Ontario, www.mcmaster.ca)
and the Thomas G.
Fisher Award will be presented to Lynn Craig,
president of
Manufacturing Automation Associates (Medford, NJ). The awards will be
presented at the upcoming WBF 2005 North American Conference on May
15–18 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The deputy director of FDA's Office of
Pharmaceutical Science (OPS), Ajaz
Hussain PhD, is relinquishing his secondary role as director of
OPS's Office of Testing and Research. The change will allow Hussain to
focus on OPS issues. FDA has started looking for a new testing and
research director. Candidates interested in the opening can find more
information at this link.
Sheldon
T. Bradshaw, Esq., was appointed new associate general counsel
of the Food and Drug Division of the Office of the General Counsel, at
the Department of Health and Human Services. Bradshaw currently serves
at the US Justice Department as principal deputy assistant attorney
general in the Civil Rights Division.
The USP
Pharmacopeial Convention (USP, Rockville, MD, www.usp.org)
elected 40 members to the 2005–2010 Council of Experts at its meeting
held in Washington, DC. Each elected member will chair one of 38
Standards and two crosscutting Expert Committees through a five-year
term of office, which begins in March 2005 and ends in 2010. In
addition, Darrell
R. Abernethy was elected
president of the 2005–2010
US Pharmacopeial Convention and Herbert S. Carlin
received the USP Beal
Award in recognition during his volunteer efforts for the past 35 years
on behalf of USP.
Gentris
Corporation (Morrisville, NC, www.gentris.com)
added two senior
executives to its management team. Deborah Oronzio
will serve as
vice-president of business development and marketing and Sandra
Sonnessa will become vice-president of corporate development. (continued to Calendar)
