Plagued with a headache, most of us will grab two small pills to alleviate the pain. Not many people think about how these pharmaceuticals are manufactured and the complexities involved in achieving a quality and effective product with minimal manufacturing issues.
“The manufacturing of pharmaceutical tablets: A ‘simple’ task of immense complexity” is the topic of 2015-2016 Albert Sauveur Lecture Awardee A.W. Grosvenor Professor Antonios Zavaliangos. The ASM International Philadelphia Liberty Bell Chapter selected Zavaliangos for the honor in recognition of his outstanding achievement in the science of metals. The lecture will take place at the chapter’s monthly meeting on Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 6 pm at the Williamson Banquet and Event Center in Horsham, PA.
Previous departmental award recipients include emeritus faculty member Dr. Alan Lawley, Distinguished University and Trustee Chair Professor Yury Gogotsi, and Teaching Professor and Associate Department Head Dr. Rick Knight.
Zavaliangos directs the Powder Materials Group in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He has published 50 journal papers and numerous conference papers on his research. Zavaliangos has been the director or co-director of five Department of Education grants on Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) and is the co-founder of Philly Materials Science and Engineering Day, the department’s premier day-long public hands-on outreach event about materials science and engineering. Zavaliangos was a visiting Scientist at Merck Inc. & Co., Johnson & Johnson, and CNRS in France. He has served as a consultant to various industries in the area of particulate processing including Johnson & Johnson, Janssen, Amgen, Merck, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Vertex, Pfizer, Cephalon, Xenoport, Alcoa, Mosaic, Komarek Research, and Philadelphia Gear. Zavaliangos has lectured extensively, including giving short courses to powder processing industries advocating the need for rational experimentation and modeling for the design and optimization of powder processing operations and currently serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Powder Metallurgy and Powder Metallurgy (UK).