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2025 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo Focuses on Pharma 4.0™, with Takeda's Gunter Baumgartner as Executive Chair and AstraZeneca's Ciby Abraham as Conference Chair
The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) has announced Gunter Baumgartner, SVP Head of Global Engineering for Takeda Pharmaceuticals International AG, as the Executive Chair of the 2025 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo. ISPE has also announced Ciby Abraham, PhD, Senior Director and Group Manager, Project and Product Leadership for AstraZeneca, as Conference Chair.
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