Designed Experiments for Life Sciences (2 days)

Day 1 Section 1—Introduction to Factorial Design
 
  • Brief description of factorial design
    • The factorial design planning process
  • Basics of factorial design (microwave popcorn)
    • Multiple response optimization
Lunch Section 2—Enhancements for Full Factorials
 
  • Replicated full factorial (mouse cell assay)
    • Explanation of power
  • 28 full factorial (assay contaminants)
    • Blocking
  Section 3a—Fractional Factorials
 
  • Fractional factorials
    • 28-2 fractional factorial (assay contaminants)
    • Setup and aliases
  • Minimum-run resolution V (MR5) designs (stent delivery)
    • Response transformation
Day 2 Section 3b—General Factorials
 
  • Immunofluorescent assay optimization
  Section 4—Introduction to Response Surface Design
 
  • Factorial with center points (bench reaction)
  • Introducing Response Surface Methods “RSM”
  • Augmenting to central composite design “CCD”
  • “Good” response surface designs
  • Sizing for precision
  Section 5—Response Surface Methodology
 
  • Instructor led exercise (fluid bed coating)
    • Building the design
    • Details of analysis
    • Optimization
    • Quality by Design “QbD”
Lunch Section 6—Constrained Response Surface
 
  • Constrained design space
    • Optimal design
    • Stent spray coating
  Section 7—Quality by Design "QbD"
 
  • Quality by Design
  • Illustrative example (tableting process)
  Section 8—Introduction to Mixture Design
 
  • What makes a mixture?
  • Mixture (Scheffé) polynomials
  • Simplex lattice designs (synthetic medium)
  • Constrained mixture (antiseptic)
  Summary
 
  • Next steps

See the public workshop schedule and the DELS course description for further information.

 


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