Society for Pharmaceutical Dissolution Science (SPDS) will be holding its first annual international convention - Disso India 2013 on May 3 and 4 at hotel The Lalit in Mumbai..

The event will promote introduction of new technology, innovation and would have deliberations on various issues faced related to dissolution. Disso India 2013 event shall witness eminent professionals from the pharmaceutical industry.

This event is being organized under the chairmanship of renowned Dr. Vinay G Nayak, President-Technical of Alembic Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and the Organizing Secretary, Dr. L. Ramaswamy, Managing Director of Sotax India Pvt. Ltd. The scientific sessions are executed under the chairmanship of Dr. Mangal Nagarsenker, HOD & Professor of Pharmaceutics, Bombay College of Pharmacy, Mumbai.

The event shall comprise plenary lecture, poster session, panel discussion and exhibits.

Participants will be able to listen to talks by reputed global speakers such as : Prof. Dr. Diane J. Burgess- Professor of Pharmaceutics, University of Connecticut,USA who will be talking on In vitro release testing for particulate systems;Dr. Umesh Banakar- Prof. & President, Banakar Consulting Services,USA who will be talking on In vitro In vivo co relation(IVIVC):What makes them Challenging, Dr. Vinod Shah- Ex.US FDA, Pharmaceutical Consultant, USA, will be talk ing on Role of Dissolution and In vitro Release in Regulating Pharmaceuticals.

Vijay Kshirsagar- Executive Vice President-Corporate QA & Regulatory Affairs, Unichem Lab Ltd, will be talking on Dealing with out of specification results in dissolution results;Prof.Dr.Jean Michelle Cardot- Professor and head of the Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology from the Universite d’Auvergne, France will be talking on Statistics and modelling in In vitro release testing ; Samir Haddouchi - Managing Director, SPS Pharma services, France, will be talking on Automation in Dissolution Testing and Validation,Vatsala Nageshwaran M.S- Asso. Director, Scientific Operations, Absorption Systems,USA, will be talking on Permeability Classification of highly variable drugs using In vitro CaCo2 assay;Dr. Kailas Thakker - Co-founder & President,Tergus Pharma, LLC, will be talking on Drug release test for topical dosage forms using diffusion cells.

Dr. Vinay Nayak- President-Technical Operations,Alembic Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Vadodara will be talking on Harmonisation of Pharmacopoeal Dissolution Testing; Dr. Sandip Tiwari,Technical Director: South Asia, Colorcon Asia Private Limited, Verna, Goa will be talking on Effect of Exciepients on Dissolution: Case Studies with Bio Relevant/Hydro alcoholic Media and Prof. Dr. Mukesh C. Gohel-Course Coordinator, M. Pharm. Program, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad will be talking on Gaining In-depth insights on QbD in Dissolution Testing

Disso India has been specifically designed for all the professionals from R&D,QA and QC as well as academia. Around 250-300 delegates are expected to participate in this event, which would be first mega event focussing on dissolution.