2012 AAPS Graduate Student Award in Quality By Design and Product
Performance
The Quality By Design and Product Performance Focus Group of AAPS will annually present an award to promote
the group’s goals to:
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provide a scientific forum which creates and fosters multidisciplinary collaborations leading to enhanced
product performance consistent with predefined objectives for greater patient benefit.
leverage, advance and accelerate science and risk-based approaches and technologies and develop strategies
which link the critical quality attributes, product, process and the patient throughout the product life cycle.
After consultation with the group’s membership at FIP PSWC 2010 / AAPS Annual Meeting 2010 it was decided
this would be best achieved by promoting these types of activities in graduate students as they would then take this
type of thinking into future careers and it may also stimulate fundamental academic research in this area.
Selection will be made on the basis of the student judged by the committee to have provided the most outstanding
contributions in the above field through their graduate research.
There are no citizenship requirements for this award. All interested candidates are encouraged to apply. Students
must be in their final year of graduate studies leading to the Ph.D. degree (or will be awarded their Ph.D. in 2012).
The student selected will receive a commemorative plaque and a cash award of $500.00.
Each award will be assessed against the following criteria:
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Integrates science from several disciplines
Demonstrates that understanding or defining product performance in the target patient population with respect
to target in vivo product performance for the intended efficacy and safety profile including suitability for dosing
compliance is a central theme of the work
Introduces new techniques or new ways of using science or new ideas to understand product performance in the
patient
Defines product release criteria and /or manufacturing conditions based on target in vivo product performance
Demonstrates a tangible benefit to patient and society
Has been communicated to the wider community
The winner will be invited to contribute a short article to the The Quality By Design and Product Performance Focus
Group Newsletter. For more info on this Focus Group go to
http://www.aaps.org/inside/focus_groups/QBDPP/index.asp.
Nomination Requirements
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The completed nomination form.
Include a supporting letter signed by your graduate advisor, and the additional information, not to exceed four
pages in length. The additional information should encompass the thesis work (may encompass published work or
other work in progress), so as to present an integrated view of the overall research program.
The nomination form and all supporting materials, must be sent as a single pdf file to awards@aaps.org by May 14,
2012. A single Microsoft Word document will be acceptable if pdf capability is not available. Failure to submit in
the proper format will be subject to return without consideration. The award name “2012 AAPS Graduate Student
Award in Quality By Design and Product Performance” must be shown in the subject line of your email. FAXED
OR MAILED NOMINATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Selection Procedures
The nomination materials are forwarded to a selection committee comprised of representatives of the AAPS Quality by
Design and Product performance Focus Group.
2012 AAPS Graduate Student Award in Quality By Design
and Product Performance
Name of Ph.D. Candidate
University
Title of Nomination
Title of Thesis
Please have your thesis advisor complete and sign the following recommendation.
I am nominating
On the basis of
Thesis Advisor Name (please print)
Signature and Date
Please indicate Nominee’s name and permanent address for further notification.
Name
Organization/Institution
Address
City
State
Zip
Daytime telephone
Email
Fax
Abstract
Country
**Not to exceed four pages**
2012 AAPS Graduate Student Award in Quality By Design
and Product Performance
Name of Ph.D. Candidate
University
Title of Nomination
Provide a brief summary of you PhD research:
Describe how your PhD research integrated science from several disciplines:
Describe how your work contributes to understanding or defining product performance in
the target patient population with respect to target in vivo product performance for the
intended efficacy and safety profile including suitability for dosing compliance is a central
theme of the work:
How has your research resulted in new techniques or new ways of using science or new
ideas that result in better understanding of product performance in patients?
How can the understanding from your PhD be used to set product release criteria and/or
manufacturing conditions based on target product performance in the patient?
Have any tangible benefits to the patient or society arisen (or could potentially arise) out of
your PhD?
Have the results of your PhD been communicated to the wider community? If not, what are
the plans to do so?