In 2004, we started our first seminar on freeze-drying in the Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Erlangen. The great success and positive feedback of the attendees during this initial seminar gave us, the Freeze Drying Focus Group, sufficient motivation to continue with a seminar in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. We are now planning for our seventh seminar in 2011 which will be held on Thursday, June 9 2011. We started our first seminar in 2004, and until today this seminar (series) is well known as:

Freeze Drying in Practice: The Erlangen Seminar

When we first brought up the idea of such a seminar it was our goal to bring interested people from academia, pharmaceutical industry and vendors / suppliers of equipment together for 1-2 days to facilitate and support discussions (on a sound scientific basis) on the different aspects of the freeze-drying science. In addition, we are keen on providing an update on the latest research and technology in the freeze-drying world. From the very beginning it was important to us to keep the seminar expenses for the participants moderate and therefore to allow more people at different working positions to attend. We still try to keep the number of participants low to facilitate and support discussions between speakers and attendees.

Until today, all talks of the Erlangen Seminar were given in the German language. We will also follow this tradition in 2010. However, at some point in the future we are going to plan for a separate seminar to be held in English since we want to enable more people from outside of Germany, Austria and Switzerland to attend!

January 2011: The agenda and the registration form of the Erlangen Seminar 2011 is now ready for download. As known from former seminars, the number of people who can register is limited. Hurry up, this seminar fills up very quickly!

Please fill out the registration form and send it over to us by email (lyo@pharmtech.uni-erlangen.de) or fax (09131-85-29545)…