CPhI Worldwide has announced the opening of the annual CPhI Pharma Awards for 2015 – with five new categories covering the entire pharmaceutical supply chain. Now in their 12th consecutive year, the awards will honour companies and individuals driving the pharma industry forward through innovations, new approaches, technologies and strategies.
This year’s awards are open for entries from across the entire pharmaceutical industry and are split into eight categories covering: ‘Best Innovation in Packaging’; ‘Best Innovation in Process and Formulation Development’; ‘Excellence in Partnering & Outsourcing’; ‘Best Innovation in APIs and Excipients’; ‘Best Innovation in Biologic Drug Development and Manufacturing; ‘Innovation in Supply Chain & Logistic Management’; ‘Best Innovation in Manufacturing Technology’; and ‘CEO of the Year’.
The expanded award categories have been created to give full recognition to all the great innovations coming out of the pharma industry. All entries will feature in the global CPhI Pharma Awards campaign – including communications to an internal database of over 100,000 pharma professionals – and the winners will be unveiled live during CPhI Worldwide, taking place from October 13 to15 in Madrid, Spain.
Entries are now open to both exhibitors and visitors of CPhI Worldwide until August 7. The finalists will be confirmed on September 21, with each having a unique profile of their award entry featured in the CPhI Show daily.
On October 13 at CPhI Worldwide , the selected finalists will then be invited to deliver a presentation in a dedicated feature area on the show floor – providing a great opportunity for the judges and the intentional industry to have a closer inspection and evaluation of the merits of the shortlisted entries. Shortly afterwards, the CPhI independent jury panel will retire to reevaluate and score the entries, before remerging to announce the winners at a prestigious award ceremony later that day.
CPhI Pharma Awards Jury Panel features some of the industry’s most influential and respected figures. The 2015 panel includes Dr. Hendrik Baumann, Arevipharma GmbH; Michaël Nieuwesteeg, NVC (Netherlands Packaging Centre);Dr. Michael Platscher, Merck & Cie; Dr. Rene Bommer, pharmAccel Consulting; Gil Roth, PBOA; Hillary Ayshford, HCPi Media; Dr. Didier Bensoussan, AMRI Global; Gary Norman, DFE Pharma; Harsh Chauhan, Creighton University and Veronique Bregeon, Merial – a Sanofi company.
Last year, MJR PharmJet was awarded the ‘Formulation’ category for its technology that enables the drug loading of hydrophobic nanoparticles; Locked4Kids BV and its world first child-resistant carton, won the ‘Best Innovation in Packaging’ category; Catalent Pharma Solutions won the ‘Partnering’ category for their collaboration with Redwood Bioscience; and the ‘Best Innovation in Process Development’ was received by acib’s Catalophor System.
To learn more about the awards, or to submit an award entry, visit http://www.cphi.com/awards/home.