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• Next symposium, 22^nd Annual Symposium of the Finnish Society of Physical Pharmacy will be organised in Kuopio 10th February 2011. The theme of the symposium will be Development and characterization of solid dosage forms. Please visit symposium page and see the final programme. Registration and abstract submission is open and deadlines are 28th January 2011!

• 21st Annual Symposium of the Finnish Society of Physical Pharmacy was organised in Turku on January 28th 2010. The symposium attracted approximately 60 participants from academia, industry and research institutes. You can find symposium programme, presentations and abstract book from symposium website.

• New steering committee of the Society was elected at the annual meeting in Turku, January 2010. You can find current members of the committee here.

• 8th meeting of the steering committee of term 2009
  The meeting was held via videoconference on January 18th, 2010. The committee went through the registration info and the final arrangements for the symposium next week. Also some preparations for the annual meeting of the Society was discussed on. Also the board run through the status of Polymorfi 2010 journal. The board noted that the new website is operational, and that there is so far no potential editor-in-chiefs for the text book project, in co-operation with Fortis ry. Many new membership applications were accepted in the meeting, welcome! Next meeting: the last meeting of the steering committee of term 2009 at Restaurant Smör (Turku) on Wednesday January 27th, 2010, 18:30-08:00 o'clock. (19.1.2010/TH)
  
  
• New website published January 8th, 2010
  New year, new pages! The content of the pages is about the same as before, but the design and engine have been updated. Happy new year! (8.1.2010/TH)
  
  
• Invitation to the annual meeting on January 28th, 2010
  The statutory annual meeting of the Finnish Society of Physical Pharmacy will be held in Turku (Finland) after the scientific program of the annual symposium at the Old Mill's auditorium on January 28th 2010, beginning at 17:00. The agenda for the annual meeting (in Finnish, 18KB PDF). Welcome! (30.12.2009/TH)
  
  
• Newsletter 2/2009 sent to members
  The newsletter is also available online. (30.12.2009/TH)
  
  
• 7th meeting of the steering committee of term 2009
  The meeting was held via videoconference on Tuesday 8th of December, 2009. The main themes of the meeting were the program, arrangements and advertising of the next symposium. The board also discussed on the content of the 2010 issue of Polymorfi journal and draw out some final additions to the new web pages. The distribution of the member letter 2009 (including the invoice for the membership fee of 2009), which started during early December, has been hindered by lack of current contact details of many members. Hence, the board discussed about sending future member letters via e-mail instead of the regular post. The association of pharmaceutical students Fortis ry and the Finnish Society of Physical Pharmacy are currently in talks over publishing a text book on pharmaceutical science. Potentially, a representative of the Society would act as the editor-in-chief of this text book. If you are potentially interested on such appointment, please contact the board. Two new member applications were reviewed and accepted in the meeting, welcome aboard new members! The next meeting will be arranged on Wednesday 13th Monday 18th of January 2010, 16-18 o'clock. (9.12.2009/TH)
  
  
• University of Kuopio is raising funds for a portrait of a founding member of the Society
  University of Kuopio (UKU, Finland) is having a portrait painted of Mr. Petteri Paronen in recognition of his significant career and accomplisments as a professor of UKU, rector of UKU and the mayor of the Kuopio city. Mr. Paronen is also an accomplished scientist, and his work has contributed greatly on the development of the pharmaceuticals research in Finland. Mr. Paronen is one of the founding members of the Finnish Society of Physical Pharmacy. The Society will contribute to this fund raising campaign and also encourages the members of the Society to do one's bit (instructions in Finnish, please contact if you need help in translating). The deadline for the donations is 31st December, 2009. (9.12.2009/TH)
  
  
• The member letter of 2009 is in the mail!
  Now is a good time to check your mailbox, as the member letter of 2009 has been mailed to you. The letter includes a short greeting from the chair, the invoice for paying your membership fee for the year 2009, as well as the interesting program (290KB PDF) for the next symposium. You can also read the greetings from the chair online (38KB PDF, Finnish/English). Please remember, that by depositing your membership fee of 2009 you'll be entitled to the lower entrance fee for the next symposium! Contact the board/member-issues in case you haven't received your letter and invoice. (9.12.2009/TH)
  
  
• 6th meeting of the steering committee of term 2009
  The sixth meeting was held via videoconference on Tuesday 3rd of November, 2009. The meeting concentrated on speaker invitations and the formulation of the final program for the next symposium and the first design draft of the new web pages of the Society. The program is still lacking a few speakers due to cancellations, so the organization committee will send out a few more invitations. The steering committee also reviewed the first graphic design and layout plan for the new web pages, and decided to suggest a few modifications on the plan. The next meeting will take place on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009. (16.11.2009/TH)
  
  
• 5th meeting of the steering committee of term 2009
  The fifth meeting was held via videoconference on Tuesday 6th of October, 2009. The meeting concentrated on the finalization of the next symposium. The meeting will take place in Turku, Finland at the technology center Old Mill on January 28th, 2010. The 21st symposium will deliver new and exciting developments in biomaterials, traditional pharmaceutical materials, functional bioactive materials and associated analytics from respected invited speakers under the main title "Functional materials for healthcare - current developments in biomaterials and drug formulations research". The first invitation (202 KB, PDF) has been published. The facelift project for the Society's homepage is moving along nicely, and hopefully these pages will have a new look before the end of this year. One new member application was processed and accepted, welcome aboard! The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 3rd of October, 2009 at 16-18 o'clock. (7.10.2009/TH)
  
  
• Newsletter 1/2009 sent to members
  The newsletter is also available online. (7.10.2009/TH)
  
  
• 4th meeting of the steering committee of term 2009
  The fourth meeting was held via videoconference on Thursday 10th of September, 2009. The board reviewed the offers from the potential venues for the next symposium and decided to visit a few of the most interesting ones. The board also discussed about the final title for the symposium, detailed timetable and new candidates for speakers. It was also decided to ask offers on the redesign of the Society's website. The status of the Physical Pharmacy book project was updated and it was also discussed how to proceed with the project. The next meeting will be held on Tuesday 6th of October, 2009 between 16-18 o'clock. (21.9.2009/TH)
  
  
• Societys electronic journal archives available!
  During its 20 years of activities the Society has published quite a substantial amount of scientific literature, especially issues of the Polymorfi journal and books of abstracts in the annual symposiums. Before year 2000 these publications were distributed as traditional hardcopies, thus the availability of most of these is nowadays limited. Since those times electronic publishing has revolutionized the distribution of scientific literature and data. Thus, the need for making the old publications available electronically has been obvious so that the valuable data wouldn't be lost and could be made available to new generations of scientists working in the field of physical pharmacy. During this term the Society decided to start looking for the old publications and convert them to electronic form. Thankfully, most of the old publications could still be located from different sources and could now be made available online. In addition to collecting large amount of data for easy online access, the editorials, columns, causeries, board introductions, profiles, interviews, travel logs, and even some slightly humorous essays in the publications are a great archive of history for the Society and in general the development of the physical pharmacy research in Finland through the years. Some items are still missing from the archives (e.g. member information leaflet 1/1992, book of abstracts 1996) and the board now asks help from the members of the Society to locate these. Please contact the board if you have any material that you feel should be included or is missing from the archives! (28.8.2009/TH)
  
  Polymorfi journal archive
  Book of abstracts archive
  
  Picture by Katariina Kalsta, from Polymorfi 1/1993 ("What kind of polymorph is this??").
  
  
• EuPAT 4 - Taking PAT to the next level. May 2010!
  Concentrating on PAT issues the EuPAT 4 conference (Fourth pan-European PAT Science Conference) will be held next year in Kuopio, Finland during 5-6th of May, 2010. You can find more information from the first invitation and from the web pages of the organizers (EUFEPS PAT network). Interesting PAT issues have also been presented in the previous annual symposiums of physical pharmacy. Certainly the EuPAT 4 meeting will draw many members of the Society under the same roof. (27.8.2009/TH)
  
  
• 3rd meeting of the steering committee of term 2009
  The third meeting was held via videoconference on Wednesday 3rd of June, 2009. The board discussed about potential speakers for the symposium program and decided to start sending invitations to few speakers. The board decided to start the process of collecting old publications of the Society and scan them to electronic format in order to make them available online. It was also decided that the minutes of the board meetings will be electronically archived from now on. Also it was decided to start looking for a suitable candidate to modernize the look of the web pages. The next meeting will be held on Thursday 27th of August, 2009 between 16-18 o'clock (NOTICE! the fourt meeting has been postponed to week 37 due to unvailable videoconference facilities/TH 26.8.2009). (3.6.2009/TH)
  
  
• The book of abstracts of the I annual symposium available for download
  In order to conserve the long history of the Society all of its old publications and any other interesting and related information is being collected to this site during the current term. To inaugurate this project the book of abstracts from the I annual symposium is now available for download. The I Annual Symposium of Physical Pharmacy was held in Turku, Finland in the venue of Farmos-Yhtymä Oy on the 26th of January, 1990. In the near future all of the old Polymorfi journals and book of abstracts that can still be found will be made electronically available from these pages. (3.6.2009/TH)
  
  
  
• 2nd meeting of the steering committee of term 2009
  The steering committee met for the second time during this term on 28th of April, 2009 via videoconference. The board decided that the next symposium should be held in Turku, Finland on the 28th of January, 2010. "Biomaterials and pharmacy" was contemplated as the main topic of the symposium and potential venues for the symposium were discussed. To spice the traditional symposium program the board discussed about organizing a "Young scientist of the year" competition. A new e-mail list for the Societys members has been under internal testing between the board members and it has been found to work very well. It was decided that the e-mail list will be put to use. The next meeting of the board will be held on 3rd of June, 2009 between 16-18 o'clock. (28.4.2009/TH)
  
  
• The member application form is working again
  The form is working as normal. Please use the form to update your info if those have changed during your membership. (28.4.2009/TH)
  
  
• The member application form is not working
  The reason for the fault is under investigation. In the mean time, please send member applications and information updates to the board member responsible at jasenasiat@fysikaalinenfarmasia.fi. (3.4.2009/TH)
  
  
• Photos from the 20th annual symposium available
  Photos from the 20th Annual Symposium of Physical Pharmacy, held in Tuohilampi, Vihti (Finland) on 28-29th January 2009 are now available. (3.4.2009/TH)
  
  
• Web pages on new server
  The www pages you are now reading were moved to a new server. The switch allows easier linking to specific pages on this site, e.g. http://www.fysikaalinenfarmasia.fi/43-symposium, which was not possible before due to domain address issues. The dedicated web hotel also allows more dynamic features to be added to the web pages, for example a discussion forum is possible. Should the Society have it? Send your feedback to the board at hallitus@fysikaalinenfarmasia.fi! (3.4.2009/TH)
  
  
• Presentations from the 20th annual symposium available for download
  Some of the slides from the 20th annual symposium (Tuohilampi, Finland, 28-29.1.2009) are now available for download from the symposium page. In addition four presentations are available as handouts in Polymorfi 2009. (27.3.2009/TH)
  
  
• Developing the website
  The Society is contemplating to modernize this homepage during the year 2009. What kind of changes would you like to see in the new pages? Is there something important missing from the current pages? Send your feedback to the steering committees e-mail hallitus@fysikaalinenfarmasia.fi! (24.3.2009/TH)
  
  
• Polymorfi journal 2009 available for download
  The official 2009 issue of the Societys own journal "Polymorfi" is now available for download. Within you'll find the abstracts from the 20th annual symposium (including the slide handouts from: Randy Mellaerts, Gavin K. Reynolds, Marja Savolainen and Edwin Aret), the abstracts of the 2008 PhD dissertations and the titles of the 2008 MSc thesis connected with the Finnish physical pharmacy research activities. This issue also includes an introduction to the new discipline in the University of Helsinki, Industrial Pharmacy, by Niklas Sandler. Naturally, the new Polymorfi journal also includes a small puzzle for those long coffee breaks. So, the Polymorfi 2009 is certainly worth the dowload. Please note also the previous issues of Polymorfi on the same page! (24.3.2009/TH)
  
  
• Description of the member register
  The description of the member register of the Finnish Society of Physical Pharmacy, as required by the Finnish law, can be found here. (available only in Finnish at this time) (23.3.2009/TH)
  
  
• 1st meeting of the steering committee of the term 2009
  The new steering committee of the term 2009 had their first meeting via videoconference on thursday 19th March, 2009. The different fields of responsibility in the Society were divided amongst the steering committee members and the activities of the term 2009 discussed. The organization of the next symposium in Turku in 2010 was discussed and the topics suggested by the attendees of the previous symposium were considered. Also, the organization of the previous symposium was debrieffed and the upgrading of the web pages of the Society were discussed. One new member application was considered and accepted, welcome onboard new member! The next meeting of the steering committee will be held on 28th April, 2009, between 16-18 o'clock. (19.3.2009/TH)
  
  
• The founding members of the Society awarded with official certificates of honour
  Due to the 20th anniversary year activities the founders of the Society were especially remembered and awarded with the official certificate of honour of the Society. The framed certificate was directly given to Juhani Posti (Bayer Schering Pharma Finland) and Jouko Yliruusille (University of Helsinki) at the 20th annual symposium, and sent in the mail to the other representatives of the "the original eight" (the names of the founding members can be found in the bottom of the page). (January-March 2009/TH)
  
  
• Two new honorary members, Kirsti Saarnivaara and Hannu Jalonen
  The 2008 steering committee decided to propose the promotion of two long-time members of the Society to the honorary member status, due to the special 20th anniversary year of the Society. The proposition was fully supported in the annual meeting of 28th January, 2009. Thus the new honorary members of the Society are Kirsti Saarnivaara (Orion Pharma) and Hannu Jalonen (Orion Pharma) for their far-reaching and substantial work for the benefit of the Finnish Society of Physical Pharmacy. To celebrate this event both new honorary members were awarded in the evening jubilee of the 20th annual symposium with an official certificate of honour of the Society and a rose. (28.1.2009/TH)
  
  
• The board for the 2009 term was selected
  The new steering committee of the Finnish Society of Physical Pharmacy was selected in the annual meeting of 28th January, 2009. The committee was renewed with four new members. The current and previous line-ups of the steering committees can be found here. (28.1.2009/TH)
  
  
• 20th Annual Symposium sweepstakes winners!
  The attendees of the 20th annual symposium were given the option to cast their vote on the topic of the 2010 symposium. As an incentive two excellent sweepstake prizes were on offer, firstly a free entrance to the 21st symposium in 2010, and second a free membership in the Society for the year 2010. Two names were randomly drawn up from the ballot, and the first prize (free registration) went to Sanni Matero from the University of Kuopio, while the second prize (free membership) went to Ari Kauppinen also from the University of Kuopio. Congratulations to the lucky winners! (28-29.1.2009/TH)
  
  
• Best poster award won by Natalja Genina
  The poster session in the 20th Annual Symposium was as popular as ever and draw room full of crowd in the breaks. The award for the best poster (200 €) was won by Natalja Genina from the University of Helsinki with her poster titled "Effective modification of particle surfaces using ultrasonic water mist". The esteemed poster jury consisted of the invited speakers of the symposium, namely Gavin Reynolds (AstraZeneca, United Kingdom), Edwin Aret (Avantium Technologies, The Netherlands), Randy Mellaerts (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) and professor Guy Van den Mooter (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium). Congratulations! The abstract for the awarded poster, as well of course all of the other posters, can be found in the book of abstracts (Polymorfi 2009). (PDF, 8.51MB) (28.1.2009/TH)
  
  
• Special 20th Annual Symposium of Physical Pharmacy was held on January 28-29th, 2009
  The Finnish Society of Physical Pharmacy celebrated its 20 years of activities in the special two-day 20th Annual Symposium on January 28-29th 2009. The venue for the symposium was the Tuohilampi training centre (located in Vihti, Finland), which was kindly provided by Orion Pharma corp. Once again the symposium proved to be a major hit as it brought together most of the Finnish professionals working in physical pharmacy. The organizers wish to thank all the speakers, sponsors, and the audience. In the spirit of the special symposium, all of the speakers were rewarded with a very special scientific instrument as a souvenir, namely the saunameter, which measures some of the most important parameters in the field of physical pharmacy (i.e. temperature and humidity). The book of abstracts (Polymorfi 2009) for the meeting has been released, and it can be found from the symposium page. Later on, some of the slides of the presentations seen in the meeting, as well as photos will be published on the same page. (January 2009/TH)
  
  
• 7.1.2009
  INVITATION TO THE ANNUAL MEETING
  The annual meeting of the Finnish Society of Physical Pharmacy will be held in Tuohilampi, Vihti (Finland) during the annual symposium on January 28th, 2009 starting at 5:00 pm. Agenda for the annual meeting (in Finnish) (PDF, 18KB).
  
  
• 18.11.2008
  The program for the 20th anniversary symposium is almost finished. See detailed information from the symposium pages. Ensure your place in the symposium and register now.
  
  
• 15.5.2008
  The 19th Helsinki Drug Research is held 9.-11. of June. The Finnish Society of Physical Pharmacy recommends everyone to attend.
  
  
• 18.3.2008
  Professor Veli Pekka Tanninen was nominated as an honorary member of the Finnish Society of Physical Pharmacy on 24.1.2008.
  
  
• 19.3.2008
  The winners of the best poster price on the XIX symposium were:
  Karin Kogermann, University of Helsinki 200€
  Satu Virtanen, University of Helsinki 100€
  Additionally, lucky winner of the free registration to the next symposium was Vesa-Pekka Lehto (University of Turku).
  Congratulations!
  
  
• 19.3.2008
  The presentation "Applications of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) and Chemometrics in Pharmaceutical Industry" by Pekka Teppola (VTT) can now be downloaded from the symposium pages.
  
  
• 19.3.2008
  The steering committee of the society can be contacted using email address hallitus@fysikaalinenfarmasia.fi.
  
  
• 25.2.2008
  The XIX annual symposium of the society of physical pharmacy was held successfully in Science Centre Heureka 24.1.08. The society wishes to thank all who attended the symposium, especially the speakers and sponsors. Pictures from the symposium can be found here and the abstract book Polymorfi is available in here.
  
  
• 25.2.2008
  The new steering committee was selected in the symposium.
  
  
• 25.5.2007
  The XIX Annual Symposium of the Society of Physical Pharmacy is arranged in Helsinki on 24.1.2008! The topic of the symposium will be "Analytical Methods in Pharmacy - Industrial and Novel Applications". For more information click here.
  
  
• 25.5.2007
  The steering committee gathered again 22.5.07. The arrangements of the next symposium are on schedule. Other topics included forthcoming publication and newsletter. Next meeting will be held on 21.8.2007.
  
  
• 7.5.2007
  The new address for the web pages of the society is www.fysikaalinenfarmasia.fi. Some contact persons can now be contacted by e-mail addresses puheenjohtaja@fysikaalinenfarmasia.fi (chairman), polymorfi@fysikaalinenfarmasia.fi (editor of polymorfi), jasenasiat@fysikaalinenfarmasia.fi (membership affairs).
  
  
• 7.5.2007
  The steering committee gathered 12.4.07 to discuss about the next symposium, updating the constitution of the society, publication about measuring methods in physical pharmacy and the new web domain. Next meeting will be held on 22.5.2007.
  
  
• 6.3.2007
  The steering committee gathered 28.2.07 to discuss about the next symposium, the Polymorfi journal and updating the constitution of the society. Next meeting will be held on 12.4.2007.
  
  
• 25.1.2007
  The 18th Annual Symposium of Physical Pharmacy was held at Kuopio. This years subject was Lipid research and pharmaceutical applications. Some pictures can be seen here.

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