Dr. Hongwei Yang is Executive Director and Head of Flow Chemistry Technology at WuXi STA. Hongwei received his PhD in chemical engineering in 2009 from East China University of Science and Technology. After a post-doctoral position at RWTH Aachen University, he had held different positions in Bayer and Novartis mainly focusing on flow chemistry. In June 2020, he joined WuXi STA as the head of flow chemistry technology. He has authored more than 10 flow chemistry relevant papers in peer reviewed journals and has been involved in the development and the implementation of flow chemistry technologies in most of the stages in pharmaceutical development covering pre-clinical, clinical and process validations.

Title of presentation:

Flow Chemistry as an Enabler to Speed up the Process Performance Qualification for Challenging Processes