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What do NASA's space food programme and the world's leading pharmaceutical manufacturers have in common? They both rely on freeze drying to solve one of science's greatest challenges: preserving product quality, stability, and performance over time.
Freeze Drying Across Industries: From Space Food to Pharmaceutical Stability is a unique international webinar bringing together leading experts from NASA, academia, and the pharmaceutical industry to explore how lyophilization is shaping the future of product preservation. Discover how space food systems, cutting-edge scientific research, and pharmaceutical manufacturing are connected by a common challenge—and how cross-industry collaboration is accelerating innovation.
Read moreFreeze Drying has become one of the most important technologies for preserving product quality, extending shelf life, and ensuring long-term stability across a diverse range of applications. From supporting food systems for long-duration space missions to enabling the development and manufacture of biologics, vaccines, and sterile pharmaceuticals, lyophilization plays a vital role wherever product integrity is critical.
This international webinar brings together experts from NASA, academia, and the pharmaceutical industry to share scientific knowledge, practical experience, and emerging innovations in freeze drying. Through expert presentations and an interactive panel discussion, participants will explore the science behind successful lyophilization, advances in pharmaceutical development and manufacturing, and the opportunities that cross-industry collaboration can create for the future of product stability.
Join #FreezeDrying Across Industries to gain practical insights from internationally recognised experts working at the forefront of space food systems, pharmaceutical development, and lyophilization science. Discover emerging technologies, explore real-world applications, and learn how knowledge from different industries can help drive innovation, improve product stability, and shape the future of freeze drying.
This webinar is designed for professionals responsible for the research, development, manufacture, and quality of freeze-dried products, as well as those advancing preservation technologies and product stability across the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food, and research sectors, including:
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Varadharaj (Varad) Vijayakumar is an internationally experienced pharmaceutical professional specializing in aseptic processing, sterile manufacturing, and contamination control. He is the author of the best-selling book Mastering Aseptic Processing, widely recognized by pharmaceutical professionals for its practical and regulatory-driven approach to sterile manufacturing.
With more than 16 years of experience in pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical technical operations, Varad has deep expertise in sterility assurance, aseptic operations, contamination control strategies (CCS), validation, lyophilization, isolator technology, and VHP decontamination. He is known for applying science- and risk-based approaches to resolve complex GMP and regulatory challenges in high-risk sterile manufacturing environments.
Varad currently serves as Associate Director – Aseptic Processing at Terumo Pharmaceutical Solutions GmbH and is Co-founder of Quantum Bio-Consulting. During his career he has held senior technical roles at organizations including WuXi Biologics, Pfizer, Franz Ziel GmbH, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Emcure Pharmaceuticals, Biocon Biologics, and Caplin Steriles.
An active member of ISPE and PDA, Varad is a global speaker and trainer who delivers programs on aseptic processing, qualification, validation, and contamination risk management. He has trained pharmaceutical teams across Europe, the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Thailand, India, and Germany.
Vickie L. Kloeris retired from NASA where she worked in space food systems for 34 years. For 29 of those years, she served as the NASA manager of first the Shuttle and then the International Space Station food systems. She has authored and co-authored numerous scientific publications and has received several awards including NASA’s highest civilian award, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 2019. During her career, she was twice awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and received the Johnson Space Center Director’s Commendation Award. In 2017, she was given an Outstanding Alumni Award by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at her alma mater, Texas A&M University.
Vickie has been a member of IFT, the professional organization for food scientists, since 1978 and has received their designation of Certified Food Scientist. At the national level she has served in numerous volunteer roles including three years on the IFT Board of Directors (2017-2020) and three years in the Office of President…President-Elect, President and Immediate Past President (2020-2023). Vickie authored a book about her career including information about the NASA food system as well as anecdotes from her tenure at NASA. :”Space Bites” was published in December 2023 and is available from Ballast Books. Any profits from her book will go to scholarships for food science students.
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