Workshop

Drug Delivery Day: Designing and developing a successful formulation

November 4, 2025​ | San Diego, CA, USA


Overview

Evonik Health Care is excited to present our full-day Drug Delivery workshop! Focusing on both oral and parenteral technologies, Evonik’s team has created an agenda full of everything you need to know when designing your formulation.

In this one-day workshop, Evonik’s Drug Delivery experts will share their experiences and insights on the discovery and development of oral formulations, long-acting injectables and RNA-based therapies and mRNA vaccines. As a CDMO partner offering end-to-end solutions, Evonik has decades of experience and expertise in every step of the manufacturing process, including route scouting, process development and optimization, purification, isolation, characterization, scale-up, and commercialization.



Key learnings for participants

  • The use and application of EUDRAGIT® polymers and EUDRATEC® technologies in delayed release, sustained release, controlled release, taste masking, and moisture protection
  • Current advances in leveraging novel lipids, such as randomized PEGs (rPEGs) in LNP-based delivery systems
  • GMP manufacturing considerations for both parenteral excipients and drug products, focusing on product-by-process manufacturing, ocular implants, microparticles and nanoparticles





Note: Please fill in your details and click 'Submit' to register for the workshop. Once we have received your registration, we will send you a status notification as soon as possible. Due to the high demand for our workshops, we sometimes need to reject registrations or put you on a waiting list. Workshop materials will be available for download at the end of the workshop. Any photographs taken during the event are the property of Evonik and may be used for promotional purposes.



Details
Participation fee: Free of charge 
Workshop language: English



Agenda
The workshop will start at 08:30 a.m. on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, and finish at 04:30 p.m. on the same day. To see the detailed workshop program please click here.



Venue
The workshop will take place at:
San Diego Marriott La Jolla Hotel
4240 La Jolla Village Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037




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Agenda

08:30 a.m. | Registration & Breakfast

09:15 a.m. | Welcome and Introduction
Josh Stephens
Associate Director, Business Development
Evonik Health Care

09:30 a.m. | Overview of EUDRAGIT® Oral Excipients
Dr. Kamlesh Oza
Head of Technical Sales NA, Formulation & Application Services
Evonik Health Care

10:00 a.m. | Customized Release With EUDRATEC® Technologies
Dr. Manish Rane
Associate Director, Technical Sales
Evonik Health Care

10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break & Networking

11:00 a.m. | EUDRACAP® Ready-to-Fill Capsules Enhance Functional Performance
Bettina Hölzer
Senior Project Manager, Oral Drug Delivery
Evonik Health Care

11:30 a.m. | Solubility Enhancement of Poorly Soluble Drugs Using EUDRAGIT® Polymeric Excipient & EUDRATEC® SoluFlow
Dr. Irfan Syed
Associate Director, FAS
Evonik Health Care

12:00 p.m. | Lunch & Networking

01:00 p.m. | Long-acting Formulations – Polymeric Microparticles and Implants
Dr. Tom Tice
Senior Director, Technical Marketing
Evonik Health Care

02:00 p.m. | Choosing the Right Bioresorbable Polymer for Your Formulation
Dr. Manish Rane
Associate Director, Technical Sales
Evonik Health Care

02:30 p.m. | Coffee Break & Networking

03:00 p.m. | Lipids, Learnings & Future Opportunities
Dr. Zahra Merchant
Project Manager: Innovation Projects
Evonik Health Care

03:30 p.m. | LNP Mixing Technologies
Dr. Michael Parr
Director, Formulation and Process Development
Evonik Health Care

04:00 p.m. | Q&A & Wrap Up

04:30 p.m. | Happy Hour Reception





Disclaimer

Notice for business transactions
We assume that you are not currently or foreseeably involved in a business decision in favour of or in direct connection with the Evonik Group or, if this is the case, the decision will not be influenced by this invitation. Therefore, we do not see any concerns on our part regarding your participation. However, we would like to ask you to ensure that you are allowed to accept the invitation in accordance with the regulations that apply to you.

Note for public officials
We assume that you are not or have not been involved in any official act in favour of or in connection with the Evonik Group, either now or in the foreseeable future or in the past and therefore your participation in the event is not subject to any concerns. In addition, we ask you to ensure that your superior approves your participation or you may also accept the invitation in accordance with the rules applicable to you. By registering or participating, you confirm to us that the acceptance of this invitation is permitted according to your internal rules and that you have obtained all necessary approvals. If this is not the case, we ask you for a corresponding note.

Tax notices
Any tax liability resulting from this event will be borne by Evonik Industries AG through a flat-rate tax levy pursuant to Section 37b of the German Income Tax Act (EStG). If you are not taxable in Germany, please clarify whether you must report the invitation to your employer for taxation or whether taxation must be made via your income tax return.




QUESTIONS? 

Griffin Brownback
Sales & Marketing Analyst | North America
+1 732 981 5298

Cléa Michel

Cléa Michel is product manager for Cell Culture Ingredients at Evonik Health Care. She provides biopharma companies and media manufacturers with the finest specialty ingredients to increase cell culture performance. Cléa has a background in biochemistry and biotechnology engineering and holds a master’s degree from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon, France. She has held various positions in marketing, project management and business development and is passionate about innovative solutions that enable the successful development of life-saving biopharmaceuticals.
Dr. Stephan Brinkmann

Stephan Brinkmann works as project manager and head of Evonik's Biopharma Applications group at Evonik R&D for the Health Care business line. He is responsible for biopharma innovation projects as well as application tests of Evonik's cell culture ingredients (i.e., cQrex® peptides). Stephan studied molecular biotechnology at Bielefeld University in Germany, where he specialized in biopharma upstream and downstream process development. Before joining Evonik, Stephan worked in Switzerland on industrial mammalian cell line development for the production of therapeutic biologics. Stephan obtained his Ph.D. in a public private partnership with Sanofi and later Evotec at Fraunhofer IME in Giessen with a focus on the discovery of natural products, especially peptides.

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