Call for Abstracts

The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) and the Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) call for abstracts for sessions and posters for the 2025 KILMER Conference has closed.

The theme for the 2025 KILMER Conference is Next Generation Microbiological Quality and Sterility Assurance. Submitted abstracts broadly reflect this theme and address topics related to industry innovations in sterilization, sterility assurance, and microbiological quality for medical devices and pharmaceuticals, including but not limited to the following areas:

  • Emerging technologies or approaches for cleaning, disinfection and sterilization
  • Microbiological quality control, aseptic and sterilization process validation and monitoring
  • Microbiological or alternative testing methods
  • Sterilization processes and modalities
  • Pathways to facilitate or innovate regulatory approvals
  • Quality control and assurance
  • Materials compatibility
  • Device and drug product packaging innovation
  • Application of process control or parametric approaches
  • Successes in industry-academia research partnerships
  • Industry approaches and innovations for infection prevention and contamination control in clinical settings
  • Sustainability
  • Leveraging pandemic or outbreak learnings (e.g., supply chain, etc.)
  • Career development

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    Submitters of proposals accepted for a presentation or poster for the 2025 KILMER Conference will be notified in early October 2024.

    Questions may be directed to Amanda Benedict at abenedict@aami.org.