The recipient of this year’s Thomas Graham Lecture Award is Prof Alex Routh from the University of Cambridge. An event to celebrate Alex’s achievements and the presentation of the award will be held on the 1st of April 2025 at the SCI headquarter in London. More details about the event are available here.
The recipient of this year’s McBain Medal is Prof. Jason Zhang from the University of Birmingham. An event to celebrate Jason’s achievements and present him with the McBain Medal will be held on the 25th of January 2024 at the Exchange, Birmingham.
The recipient of this year’s Rideal Award is Dr. Andrew Howe from AQDOT. An event to celebrate Andrew’s achievements, ending with the Rideal lecture, will be held on the 24th of April 2024 at the SCI, London.
The 11th MIBio conference will take place at Howard Theatre, Downing College, Cambridge, on 18th October 2023. MIBio engages leading experts from industry and academia in a discussion on how the latest molecular interaction-based discoveries can be exploited in biopharmaceutical formulation to produce more effective, patient-friendly, and safer therapeutic products. Abstracts for poster presentations at MIBio 2023 are now being invited.
For more information on the conference please visit
UK Colloids 2023 will be held at ACC Liverpool from Monday 17th July to Wednesday 19th July 2023, including parallel sessions on several themes. The deadline for abstract submissions for oral contributions is 1st March 2023. The full list of Plenary Speakers and Keynote Speakers corresponding to the Session Themes is available here.
The 4th Annual SCI Formulation Forum will be held at SCI, London from Tuesday 24th January to Wednesday 25th January 2023.
There are still places left for posters. Abstracts should be sent by email to conferences@soci.org with the subject “Formulation Forum – poster abstract”.
Event details are available here.
The 2022 McBain Medal meeting, Stimuli-Responsive Soft Matter and Interfaces, will feature invited lectures and will be concluded with the 2022 McBain Medal Lecture by
Professor Rachel Evans of the University of Cambridge, the 2022 recipient of the prestigious McBain Medal. More details can be found here. Early bird registration ends on 28th October 2022.
Downing College Cambridge, 19th October 2022
Following a 2-year break due to the pandemic, the 10th meeting of the MIBio conference series will return as an in-person conference to be held at Downing College, Cambridge (UK) on 19th October 2022. The MIBio conference series engages leading experts from industry and academia to discuss how the latest molecular interaction-based discoveries can be exploited in biopharmaceutical formulation to produce more effective, patient-friendly, and safer therapeutic products.
For more information on the conference please visit www.constableandsmith.com/events/mibio-2022
Update on UK Colloids, Liverpool
Due to the ongoing uncertainty caused by the current global pandemic, the planned UK Colloids conference is now postponed until 2023. UK Colloids 2023 will be held in Liverpool from 17th to 19th July 2023. There will be an online version in 2021. Please see below.
UK Colloids 2021 (online)
The CISG, in partnership with the SCI’s Colloid and Interface Chemistry Group is running its three-day flagship event, UK Colloids, from 19–21 July 2021. The event will be run entirely online as a series of half-day sessions on panels, posters and presentations, and will culminate in Professor Colin Bain’s lecture to mark his winning the 2020 Rideal award.
Session themes:
Colloids and nanostructures for sustainable technologies
Colloids for energy
Early career colloid scientists
Women in colloids
Rheology and gels
Polymers in liquid formulations
Further information on the sessions, timings, registration and how to submit an abstract for a five-minute flash presentation are available at this link.
13th November 2019, Downing college, Cambridge
The MIBio conference series engages world leading experts from industry and academia in a discussion on how the latest molecular interaction based discoveries can be exploited in biopharmaceutical formulation to produce more effective, patient-friendly and safer therapeutic products.
The biopharmaceutical product development landscape is rapidly changing. There are an increasing number of novel product modalities, including multi-specific antibodies, RNA based products, fusion proteins or various types of gene and cell therapies. Each of those products poses specific and different challenges that need to be addressed in the development process. In addition, stronger focus on patient-centric product strategies, increasingly more complex regulatory requirements and patent coverage further contributes to the challenge of developing robust drug products. MIBio 2019 will focus on discussing these challenges as well as strategies to overcome them, particularly focusing on protein-protein interactions, formulation, drug product development and competitive product profiles.
We attracted 95 delegates from industry and academia creating a stimulating event fostering new collaborations and discoveries that will help steer the development of the next generation formulation technologies.
For more information please visit the conference website here: www.mibio-conference.com
You can become a member by joining one of the two groups:
SCI Colloid & Surface Chemistry Group (CSCG). http://www.soci.org/Membership-and-Networks/Technical-Groups/Colloid-and-Surface-Chemistry-Group
RSC Colloid & Interface Science Group (CISG). http://www.rsc.org/membership/networking/InterestGroups/colloidscience/
The former is open to SCI members only. The latter is open both to RSC members and associates AND to scientists and engineers who belong, either, to a chartered professional or learned body from outside the chemical sciences, or to another chemical society with whom the RSC has entered into an international partnership agreement approved by RSC Council. Non-RSC members of CISG pay RSC a small annual fee to cover administration and postage.
For information on how to become a member of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) or Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) please see the links below:
http://www.soci.org/Membership-and-Networks http://www.rsc.org/Membership/join/admission/index.asp
Non-members of RSC wishing to join CISG should contact the RSC Membership Dept. (contact details at http://www.rsc.org/Membership/join/admission/Contacts.asp), asking to join the Colloid & Interface Science Interest Group, only, and mentioning their own affiliation. The membership administration fee is £10 currently. In case of difficulty please contact a member of the Joint Committee.