Parma - Italy
Chiesi Group Headquarters
And online (live streaming)
November 22 - 23
2023
The Chiesi Center for Open Innovation & Competence
The Chiesi Center for Open Innovation & Competence (COI&C) is an innovative business playground and an open place for the interaction between Chiesi People and the external stakeholders from the research and continuous innovation fields. It is conceived to implement new ways to identify and develop open innovation projects and educational healthcare-related journeys.
The COI&C is structured as an open collaborative platform, able to nurture and finalize initiatives that will involve external partners and actors, in order to exploit and complement internal expertise with an interdisciplinary approach, while also maximizing the impact of activities at local, national and global level. It contributes to Chiesi business strategy by acting as a supporting service also identifying and opening untapped opportunities with a global reach.
The development of validated and reliable models of the human respiratory system could be of great impact in many sectors:
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safety & environment applications related to the inhalation of toxic or carcinogenic aerosols;
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healthcare applications e.g. transmission of pathogen agents such as bacteria or viruses;
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pharmaceutical product development for prediction and optimization of therapeutic aerosols deposition administered though nose and lungs.
Topics
Simulation and experimental characterization of air dynamics in the lungs;
Modelling therapeutic aerosol generation with DPIs, pMDIs and nebulizers;
Simulation and experimental characterization of aerosol deposition in the lungs;
Lung imaging and its processing; Digital lung models, lung digital twins and their applications in healthcare.
Other industrial applications of lung modelling and simulation include the design of inhalers, nebulizers and vapes. Finally, on a long-term perspective, a digital twin of the human respiratory system could enable the study of lung physiology in extreme conditions or under strong solicitations. The aim of the congress is to gather international experts in these research fields to discuss and challenge the current state of the art and chart a roadmap for future development.
Agenda
Day 1 | 22-11-2023
- 09:00 Registration and refreshments
- 10:20 Welcome and COI&C/R&D introduction Dr. F. Conicella, Director of COI&C and T. Eichholtz CTO
- 10:40 Developing a multi-scale computational tool for orally inhaled drug product design Dr. Ciro Cottini, Chiesi
- 11:00 TBD Prof. Maurizio Quadrio, Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy)
- 12:00 TBD Prof. Kelly Burrowes, university of Aukland, (Auckland, New Zealand)
- 13:00 TBD Dr. Ludovica Cacopardo, Università di Pisa (Pisa, Italy)
- 14:00 Lunch
- 15:00 TBD Elizabeth Estes, Open Source Imaging Consortium (Saugatuck MI, USA)
- 16:00 A critical analysis of CFD-DEM simulation of human airways Dr. Andrea Benassi, Chiesi Farmaceutici (Parma, Italy)
- 17:00 TBD Dr. Andrew J. Banko, West Point Military Academy (West Point NY, USA)
- 18:00 Poster session & Networking with refreshments
- 19:30 - 22:00 Social Dinner/buffet
Day 2 | 23-11-2023
- 09:30 TBD Prof. Andrea Aliverti, Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy)
- 10:30 TBD Dr. Fabio F. Stellari, Chiesi (Parma, Italy)
- 11:30 Coffee Break
- 12:00 TBD Prof. Stavros Kassinos, University of Cyprus (Cyprus, Greece)
- 13:00 Revisiting inhaled aerosol transport in the deep lungs Prof. Josue Sznitman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel)
- 14:00 Lunch
- 15:00 Dr. Ing. Manuel Reddemann, Aachen University (Aachen, Germany)
- 16:00 Prof. Marco Evangelos Biancolini, università Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy)
- 17:00 Closing remarks
- 17:30 - 19:00 Poster session & Networking with refreshments
Speakers
Elizabeth Estes
Executive Director at Open Source Imaging Consortium (Saugatuck MI, USA)
Prof. Josue Sznitman
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel)
Prof. Maurizio Quadrio
Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy)
Prof. Andrea Aliverti
Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy)
Prof. Kelly Burrowes
University of Auckland, (Auckland, New Zealand)
Prof. Marco Evangelos Biancolini
University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (Rome, Italy)
Andrea Benassi
Chiesi Farmaceutici, (Parma, Italy)
Fabio Franco Stellari
Chiesi Farmaceutici, (Parma, Italy)
Dr. Ing. Manuel Reddemann
Aachen University (Aachen, Germany)
Prof. Stavros Kassinos
University of Cyprus (Cyprus, Greece)
Dr. Andrew J. Banko
West Point Military Academy (West Point NY, USA)
Dr. Ludovica Cacopardo
Università di Pisa (IT)