SAXS in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Short online course
4 & 5 October 2023 14:00–16:00 CEST
Course on Small Angle X-ray Scattering in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Xenocs and BIOSAXS invite you to join our interactive two-day short course focused on the benefits and use of Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) for the pharmaceutical industry.
In addition to showcasing the benefits of SAXS at various stages of the drug development & production processes, we will cover practical workflows and how you can characterize and analyse (bio-)therapeutic systems, APIs and drug delivery systems with SAXS in the lab and at a synchrotron.
Reserve your place today to learn:
- how SAXS is used during drug discovery, formulation and production processes,
- what you can gain from the SAXS technique and how it complements analytical workflows,
- how properties such as overall shape & size, conformational & oligomeric polydispersity, degree of flexibility & stability are addressed with SAXS analysis,
- how you can characterize your samples with SAXS in your lab or at synchrotron facilities.
On request participants will receive the course materials.
Program
Day 1 – Wednesday 4 October 2023 (CEST Time)
Chair: Al Kikhney, Xenocs
14:00 – 14:10 | Welcome Al Kikhney, Xenocs & Dmitri Svergun, BIOSAXS |
14:10 – 14:30 | Pharmaceutical use of solution SAXS Dmitri Svergun, BIOSAXS |
14:30 – 14:40 | SAXS in the drug development process – introducing SAXS in the lab Søren Skou, Xenocs |
14:40 – 15:00 | SAXS for characterisation of nanoparticulate pharmaceuticals products Heinrich Haas, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
15:00 – 15:20 | SAXS for biopharmaceutical development Suzette Pabit, Merck (MSD) |
15:20 – 15:40 | SAXS in practice – Synchrotron Melissa Gräwert, EMBL Hamburg |
15:40 – 16:00 | SAXS in practice – in the lab Sanaullah Khan & Aden Hodzic, Xenocs Nordic |
16:00 – 16:05 | Conclusions Al Kikhney, Xenocs & Dmitri Svergun, BIOSAXS |
Day 2 – Thursday 5 October 2023 (CEST Time)
Chair: Melissa Gräwert, EMBL Hamburg
14:00 – 14:05 | Welcome and recap Dmitri Svergun, BIOSAXS |
14:05 – 14:25 | SAXS data analysis with ATSAS 4.0, a preview Daniel Franke , BIOSAXS |
14:25- 14:45 | Integration of free fatty acids into polysorbate micelles Norbert Nagel, AbbVie |
14:45 – 15:05 | Moving Biophysics and Applications of Small-angle scattering into Pharmaceutical Production
Malin Z. Oskolkova, Novo Nordisk |
15:05- 15:25 | How to do SAXS in the lab – Instrument solutions for SAXS in the pharma industry
BioXolver SAXS instrument virtual tour |
15:25 – 15:45 | BIOSAXS services to pharma industry
Synchrotron SAXS, P12 virtual tour |
15:45 – 16:00 | Q&A session |
Registration
REGISTRATION DEADLINE
3 October 2023
Registration is free. The number of participants is limited.
Your registration is pending until the final confirmation from the organizers. The course platform is GoToWebinar.
Attendees information will be processed and recorded by the organizers Xenocs SAS and BIOSAXS GmbH in accordance with their respective privacy policies. Please consult Xenocs SAS privacy policy & BIOSAXS GmbH privacy policy for more information.

