Founding Working Groups
BioPhorum
BioPhorum (BioPhorum Operations Group Limited, The Gridiron Building, 1 Pancras Square, London N1C 4AG) is a cross-industry collaboration group connecting most of the world's largest biopharmaceutical manufacturers and suppliers to solve pertinent pre-competitive industry challenges and improve operational practices. BioPhorum creates an environment where biopharmaceutical companies can collaborate for the benefit of all by providing professional facilitation capability and processes to support cross company, representative collaboration teams of subject matter experts who produce high quality industry consensus and best practices.
Kilmer Consortium
The Kilmer Conference is a memorial conference to recognize Fred Kilmer, a leader in the pharmaceutical industry and director of Johnson & Johnson’s scientific laboratory from 1889-1934. The Sterility Assurance Community has used the forum of the Kilmer Conference to communicate innovations across medical devices and pharmaceuticals and between industry, academia and regulatory agencies. The Rapid Microbiology Methods group originated at the Kilmer Conference in 2019 and is one of several collaborations that support innovation for patient safety.
Online Water Bioburden Analyzer (OWBA) Working Group
In an effort to accelerate the implementation of an OWBA, a collaborative workgroup was formed, comprising representatives across the pharmaceutical / biopharmaceutical industry. By leveraging lessons learned through assessment and implementation of various rapid microbiological methods (RMM) and process analytical technologies (PAT) across the healthcare and consumer products industries, the primary goal of this workgroup is to provide guidance regarding the development and application of OWBA systems that would be broadly accepted by the industry and regulators.
Process and Environmental Monitoring Methods (PEMM) Working Group
The PEMM Working Group is a cross industry collaboration with a goal of advancing the acceptability and supporting the adoption of real time bio-fluorescent particle counting (BFPC) process and environmental monitoring methods, for air and water, within industries such as pharmaceutical, personal care, and food and beverage. To that aim, the team seeks out publication opportunities and the opportunity to collaborate with other industry working groups to support and facilitate the adoption of rapid microbiological methods within industry.
