21st ISAM Congress focused on emerging trends

Exhibition
In the exhibition hall, several companies showed off new device concepts, including Pharmaero, a joint venture between Xellia Pharmaceuticals and Scandinavian Health, which introduced its aqueous droplet inhalation (ADI) device.

Philips Respironics was exhibiting the recently launched InnoSpire Go nebulizer, which is based on technology that the company acquired from Aerogen in 2014. Aerogen also participated in the exhibition, showing its nebulizers for hospital use, and Boehringer Ingelheim was demonstrating the Respimat device.

Environmental aerosol instrument maker TSI exhibited alongside MSP Corporation, maker of the NGI cascade impactor, which TSI acquired in November 2016. Daryl Roberts, a co-inventor of the NGI and longtime product and business development executive with MSP, is no long with the company and attended the meeting representing his new business, Applied Particle Principles.

Other exhibitors included Battelle Memorial Institute, Harro Höfliger, InspiRx, Lupin, Proveris Scientific, Catalent, Clement Clarke, Data Sciences, Envigo, Inhalation Sciences, ITR Laboratories, Lovelace Biomedical, Vitrocell Systems, IIT Research Institute, and PARI Pharma.