PQT MEDICINES 8th ANNUAL MEDICINES QUALITY WORKSHOP FOR MANUFACTURERS – 27-30 October 2025
The 2025 8th Annual Medicines Quality Workshop for Manufacturers delivered by WHO PQT Medicines will take place from Monday 27 October through Thursday 30 October 2025 as a virtual event.
The workshop will focus on key quality requirements of a generic finished pharmaceutical product (FPP) dossier as submitted to PQT Medicines and will also cover bioequivalence and biowaiver issues, WHOPARs (WHO Public Assessment Reports) and product information, as well as GMP/GCP inspection findings. Additionally, WHO’s experience in implementing the Collaborative Registration Procedure will be shared (see draft programme). In order to make use of the best virtual window of time for all participants, the workshop will take place over four hours (14:00 to 18:15 CET) on four consecutive days, covering several talks per day.
This workshop is offered as an exceptional opportunity to hear PQT Medicines assessors and inspectors explain the issues commonly encountered during assessment and inspection and how to best address them. In the topics covered, the requirements will be described followed by how dossiers can be improved to enhance and expedite the process towards prequalification. Attendees will get the opportunity to ask questions following each talk.
The training will not cover dosage forms or products which are not invited to PQT Medicines (e.g. ointments, MDIs), or areas which the PQT Medicines team does not assess (e.g. falsified medicines, toxicity studies), or vaccines.
The workshop is primarily aimed at FPP manufacturers that are participating, or intend to participate in PQT Medicines. Those who stand to benefit the most are those without extensive experience with PQT Medicines, including new employees of experienced companies. The speakers/mentors are senior assessors/inspectors in PQT Medicines.
PQT MEDICINES 5th ANNUAL BIOTHERAPEUTIC PRODUCT (BTP) AND SIMILAR BIOTHERAPEUTIC PRODUCT (SBP) WORKSHOP FOR MANUFACTURERS – 31 October 2025
The abovementioned 2025 PQT Medicines 8th Annual Medicines Quality Workshop for Manufacturers will be followed by PQT Medicines 5th Annual Biotherapeutic Product (BTP) and Similar Biotherapeutic Product (SBP) Workshop for Manufacturers on Friday 31 October.
The biotherapeutics workshop will provide a detailed overview of the requirements, progress and results of the WHO projects on Biotherapeutics. The workshop will include key requirements and assessment of a BTP/SBP dossier as submitted to PQT Medicines covering product analytical characterization and biosimilarity, process development concepts, comparability pre-post process changes and viral safety. Furthermore, insight on BTP/SBP-specific clinical and pharmacovigilance requirements and human Insulin Master File procedure (hIMF) will be provided during the training (see draft BTP/SBP program). The workshop will take place on 31 October 2025 over 4.5 hours (14:00 to 18:30 CET).
If you are interested in attending either of these workshops or both workshops, please fill out and submit the corresponding application form(s) (NOTE: there is a separate application form for each workshop, so if you wish to attend both workshops, both forms need to be filled out). Attach the form(s), signed and dated by your supervisor, together with brief CV(s) to an email to Dr Matthias Stahl at stahlm@who.int, no later than COB Friday 3 October 2025. A separate confirmation whether you have been chosen to participate in the workshop(s) will be sent out in due course.