Lab Coat Legends
Edward Jenner, often referred to as the father of vaccinology, created this vaccine
What is the smallpox vaccine?
This lab technique uses thermal cycling to create millions of copies of specific DNA segment in hours
What is PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)?
Linked together by peptide bonds to form proteins, there are 20 standard types of these building blocks
What are amino acids?
This technology prevents outside contaminants from entering a drug manufacturing suite
What is Cleanroom technology?
The TAMU student chapter operates under this broader regional ISPE chapter
What is the South Central Chapter?
Selman Waksman, a microbiologist discovered streptomycin leading to an effective drug treatment against this infection
What is tuberculosis (TB)?
This specialized vessel provides a controlled environment—regulating temperature, pH, and oxygen—for living cells or microorganisms to grow at industrial scale
What is a bioreactor?
A chemical reaction occurs spontaneously when this thermodynamic value is negative
What is Gibbs free energy?
This manufacturing process is where a sterilized product is put into pre-sterilized containers inside a clean, germ-free environment and then sealed air-tight
What is aseptic filling?
Located off Discovery Drive in College Station, TAMU ISPE is closely tied to this Texas A&M center known for advanced biopharmaceutical manufacturing training
What is the NCTM?
Katalin Kariko's research focused on mRNA technology which laid the crucial foundation for which vaccine and earned her the Nobel Prize in 2023
What is the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine?
This gene-editing system acts like molecular scissors to target and modify specific DNA sequences
What is CRISPR-Cas9?
Non-superimposable mirror images are described by this stereochemical property
What is Chirality?
This process stabilizes heat-sensitive biologics by freezing them and removing water via sublimation under a vacuum
What is freeze-drying?
This payment amount allows students to become ISPE National members
What is $29?
This Danish physician/scientist's early work on gut hormones led to the discovery of GLP-1, paved the way for these multi-receptor agonists
What is tirzepatide?
Known by this four-letter industry acronym, these third-party companies provide drug development and manufacturing services to pharmaceutical firms on a contract basis.
What is a CDMO (Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization)?
This cytosolic pathway branches from glycolysis to generate NADPH for reductive biosynthesis and ribose 5-phosphate for nucleotides
What is the pentose phosphate pathway?
Inactive ingredients—such as binders, disintegrants, and lubricants—added alongside the active drug substance to form a usable tablet or capsule
What are excipients?
This official 4-word motto of TAMU ISPE defines its core purpose
What is "Connecting Students to Industry"?
The work of these Nobel Prize winners, Doudna and Charpentier, on CRISPR-Cas9 laid the groundwork for this gene-editing treatment
What is Casgevy or exa-cel?
This living drug therapy harvests a patient's own T-cells and is genetically modified to express a chimeric antigen receptor, and then reinfused to destroy cancer cells
What is CAR T cell therapy?
This large family of cell surface receptors detect molecules outside the cell to trigger internal cellular response and is often referred as the seven-transmembrane receptors
What are GPCRs (G protein-coupled receptors)?
The biologically active component in a drug formulation responsible for producing its intended therapeutic effect
What is an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API)?
These students are the current TAMU ISPE South Central Chapter officers (Name one)
Who is Sofia Rosas, Vishnu Vasudev, Joanelis Rijos Arroyo, Tanya Kari, Nicole Calderon, Isabel Stowe, or Ava Daly?