Amsterdam, 2nd July 2018 : CPhI Worldwide – organised by UBM (part of Informa PLC) – announces the opening of the 2018 CPhI Pharma Awards for entries. The industry’s preeminent awards return for a landmark 15th edition, with 17 categories honouring companies and individuals driving the pharma industry forward through innovations, technologies, and strategies.
Full list of categories:
Excellence in Pharma: API Development
Excellence in Pharma: Formulation
Excellence in Pharma: Excipients
Excellence in Pharma: Manufacturing Technology and Equipment
Excellence in Pharma: Bioprocessing and Manufacturing
Excellence in Pharma: Analysis, Testing, and Quality Control
Excellence in Pharma: Drug Delivery Devices
Excellence in Pharma: Packaging
Excellence in Pharma: Supply Chain, Logistics, and Distribution
Excellence in Pharma: Contract Services and Outsourcing
Excellence in Pharma: Regulatory Procedures and Compliance
Excellence in Pharma: Corporate Social Responsibility
Excellence in Pharma: CEO of the Year
Excellence in Pharma: Pharma Company of the Year
Excellence in Pharma: OTC
Excellence in Pharma: Patient Centricity
Excellence in Pharma: IT, mHealth & Digitalisation
Last year, the Awards received a record number of submissions with over 200 applications, and CPhI Worldwide is expecting even greater interest in 2018. Categories include innovations across APIs, excipients, and formulations to drug delivery technologies, packaging, patient-centricity, contract services and business performance focused awards.
This year the Bioprocessing & Manufacturing category – powered by the new bioLIVE event – is expected to see a big increase in applications in light of the increased biologics and supply chain audiences now attending CPhI Worldwide. Amongst 2017’s most hotly contested categories were API Development, along with the fiercely competitive ‘Product Packaging’ and ‘Drug Delivery and Devices’ categories, which each received over 20 high-quality entries.
Former winners of the prestigious CEO of the year award feature a ‘who’s who’ of Pharma executives, such as Vivek Sharma, CEO of Piramal (winner in 2015); Udit Batra, CEO of Merck (winner in 2016), and last year Richard Chin, MD, founder and CEO of Kindred Biosciences.
Another increasingly significant category is the Corporate Social Responsibility award, which will be given in partnership with official charity partner, International Medical Corps.
Submitting your entry(ies) for the CPhI Pharma Awards is free of charge and the deadline is July 31st 2018 – with shortlisted finalists announced 28th August 2018. The winners will be unveiled during a glitzy ceremony at the prestigious Eurostars Madrid Tower in Madrid, on October 9th during the evening of the first day of CPhI Worldwide.
