Develop sensitive, rapid, high-throughput methods to detect, identify, and enumerate microbial contaminants and validate their utility in assessing product sterility
Develop and evaluate methods for microbial inactivation/removal from pharmaceutical products that are not amenable to conventional methods of sterilization
Evaluate the impact of specific manufacturing processes on microbial contamination
Develop reference materials for use by industry and academia to evaluate and validate novel methods for detecting microbial contamination