The role of life cycle assessment for chemical recycling deployment and policy decision-making

Despite the promise of target-based drug discovery ushered in by the genomics era, no mechanistically novel rationally designed antibiotic has reached clinically utility to address the threat of multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens. Phenotypic screening remains the primary source for new antibacterial compounds, which mainly come from mining various chemical libraries. In this webinar, Carl Balibar (Merck Research Laboratories) discussed screen design, target bias, and hit-prioritization strategies to identify those entities with the greatest opportunity to be developed into the next new antibiotic.

Jointly organised by STEM Alliance and Scientix, the webinar was held online on Thursday, 9 May 2019 at 18:00 CEST (Central European Summer Time) in English language. The purpose of this webinar was to give teachers, career counsellors, educational authorities and researchers an understanding of careers in the STEM field with the chemical and petrochemical industry. Our two speakers from company members of the European Petrochemical Association (EPCA), Ana Montenegro, Innovation & Improvement Manager at Repsol, and Daniel Zweifel, Technical Service and Development at Dow Europe GmbH, presented their experience related to this career path and talked about the opportunities existing in their sector.

Organizations of many kinds are creating lists of chemicals of concern and related restrictions, from regulatory agencies to manufacturers, brands, large scale purchasers, retailers, and NGOs. It can be overwhelming to track and manage these lists. Existing lists are constantly changing, and new lists are being continuously created. Learn about the thinking behind these lists and how tools including GreenScreen List Translator™ can help in the evaluation and prioritization of chemicals for your organization.

System integrity is critical to the operation of safe, reliable and efficient production and processing facilities in the oil and gas and chemical process industries. Integrity risks come in many forms and must be addressed at the design phase and across the full lifecycle of the equipment or system in operation. This webinar aims to demonstrate the value of engineering simulation in both the design phase and during the operating phase of a process system for quantifying, managing and avoiding integrity risks associated with process system operation.