2025 Annual Report
20th Anniversary Year
In 2025, the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable celebrated 20 years of partnership between global pharmaceutical companies and the ACS Green Chemistry Institute. From modest beginnings, the Roundtable has grown to 53 member companies, aligned by a shared commitment to drive sustainability in the manufacture of medicines and beyond.
Annual Report
In honor of the 20th anniversary, the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable (GCIPR) held a series of special events, expanding our outreach to over 4,000 stakeholders in 2025 across different regions of the globe. Download the full annual report to see how GCIPR made an impact in 2025.
2025 Highlights
The ACS GCIPR held 15 symposia, workshops, and webinars combined in 2025.
We reached a total of 4,912 stakeholders located in 45 countries across these events.
Through our Grants Program, we distributed $480,000 in research grants in 2025.
The Roundtable published 5 journal publications in ACS journals in 2025. In addition, we celebrated the 20th anniversary with an article published in Chemistry Today and a Chemistry & Engineering News article.
We honored 5 companies through our Awards Program in 2025, including the inaugural Discovery Chemistry Award.
2025 Publications, Awards, and Events
- All
- API Sustainability Strategy
- Articles of Interest
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
- Biocatalysis
- CMO Excellence Award
- Catalysis
- Continuous Flow
- Data Science & Modeling Award
- Green Discovery Chemistry Award
- Medicinal Chemistry
- PMI
- Peptides
- Peter J. Dunn Award
- Supply Chain
Good Health and Well-Being: Advancing Good Health through Innovative Chemistry
At ACS, we are committed to improving lives through the transformative power of chemistry, and in this session, we aim to leverage this power to advance U.N. SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being. Aligned with this goal, this symposium will bring together researchers focused on reducing the environmental and health impacts of medicines and commercial […]
GChELP: A Vital Resource for Teaching Practical Green Chemistry in Industry and Academia
GChELP: A Vital Resource for Teaching Practical Green Chemistry in Industry and Academia. Isamir Martinez*, Alan Steven*, Nicholas Babij, Ashley E. Baker, Christiana Briddell, Naoko Ichiishi, Shazia Keily, Andrew Kennedy, Rebecca Newton, Paul F. Richardson, Helen F. Sneddon, and Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2025, 13, 27, 10259–10267. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.5c00379.
Environmental Sustainability Strategy of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Manufacturing
Environmental Sustainability Strategy of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Manufacturing: A Perspective from the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable. Juan Colberg*, John L. Tucker, Isamir Martínez, J. Daniel Bailey, Christiana Briddell, Stefan G. Koenig, Michael E. Kopach, Sharon Michalak, Astrid Parsons, Paul F. Richardson, Frank Roschangar, Eva Vestergaard, and Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal. ACS Sustainable Chem. […]
The Evolving Landscape of Industrial Biocatalysis in Perspective from the ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable
The Evolving Landscape of Industrial Biocatalysis in Perspective from the ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable. Francesco Falcioni*, Luke Humphreys*, Richard C. Lloyd*, Hao Wu, Isamir Martinez, Jonathan Jones, Shane McKenna, Katharina Neufeld, Ryan M. Phelan, Tay Rosenthal, Christophe J. Szczepaniak, Kumiko Yamamoto, Scott P. France, and Anna Fryszkowska. ACS Catal. 2025, 15, 12, 10780–10794. […]
Green Chemistry Using Smarter Metrics: A Life Cycle Approach
Chemists and chemical engineers hold immense power to reduce environmental impact through the choices they make, especially when selecting synthetic routes. But how can they be sure they’re making the greener choice? The ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable has developed robust metrics to advance decision making in development of greener synthetic processes, not just for the pharmaceutical sector, […]
Green Chemistry Articles of Interest to the Pharmaceutical Industry – May 2025
Green Chemistry Articles of Interest to the Pharmaceutical Industry Melissa A. Ashley, Miles H. Aukland, Marian C. Bryan*, Megan A. Cismesia, Theresa Dutschei, Oliver D. Engl, Pascal S. Engl, Álvaro Enríquez García, Alejandro Gimenez Molina, Vanessa Harawa, George Karageorgis, Shazia Keily, Christopher B. Kelly, Alexandre Leclair, Johnny W. Lee, Wei Li, Matthew Osborne, Jan Pawlas, […]
Algorithmic Process Optimization (APO) for Pharmaceutical Development.
2025 Data Science and Modeling for Green Chemistry Award The Merck and Sunthetics team, consisting of Kevin Stone, Daniela E. Blanco, Kaitlyn Brinza, Melodie Christensen, Shane Grosser, Yasser Khelalef, Abderrahman Lazizi, Andy Liaw, Spencer McMinn, Rafik Oulbsir, Victor Schultz, Ethan Tenison, César A. Urbina-Blanco, Ajit Vikram, and Yuting Xu, is awarded for their work, “Algorithmic Process Optimization (APO) for […]
Recombinant DNA technology and chimeric protein expression for sustainable production of therapeutic peptides by microbial fermentation
2025 CMO Excellence in Green Chemistry Award Olon S.p.A is awarded on their innovative work, “Recombinant DNA technology and chimeric protein expression for sustainable production of therapeutic peptides by microbial fermentation.” Leveraging their expertise in microbial fermentation, Olon S.p.A. has developed a flexible manufacturing platform for the synthesis of peptide therapeutics. This novel technology synthesizes peptides […]
From Bottleneck to Breakthrough: Developing a Sustainable and Scalable Manufacturing Process for a Complex ADC Drug-Linker
2025 Peter J. Dunn Award for Green Chemistry & Engineering Impact in the Pharmaceutical Industry The Merck team, consisting of Patrick Fier, Patrick Moon, Scott McCann, Tao Liang, Greg Estrada, Marc Poirier, Reed Larson, Lu Wang, Gao Shang, and Fuh-Rong Tsay, received this award for their work, “From Bottleneck to Breakthrough: Developing a Sustainable and […]
A Sustainably-Designed Manufacturing Process to Adavelt™ Active from Renewable Feedstocks.
2025 Peter J. Dunn Award for Green Chemistry & Engineering Impact in the Pharmaceutical Industry Corteva’s winning submission “A Sustainably-Designed Manufacturing Process to Adavelt™ Active from Renewable Feedstocks.” The Corteva team demonstrated the design of an efficient manufacturing process for Adavelt™ active, with sustainability as a core focus. They adopted green chemistry principles to maximize […]
Walk-Up Automated Reaction Profiling (WARP) System: A Tool for Reaction Monitoring Designed for Discovery Chemists
2025 Green Discovery Chemistry Award The Pfizer team has been awarded the inaugural prize for their submission, “Walk-Up Automated Reaction Profiling (WARP) System: A Tool for Reaction Monitoring Designed for Discovery Chemists.” The WARP system emphasizes waste reduction and minimizing exposure to hazardous substances. The technology provides a useful and versatile profiling tool for challenging […]
Sustainability in Organic Chemistry: 20 Years of the ACS GCIPR Grants Program
Join session organizers Isamir Martinez (ACS GCI) and Paul Richardson (Pfizer) in this ORGN session exploring new approaches to chemical synthesis relevant to the pharmaceutical industry that utilize green chemistry. This session highlights academic research funded by the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable. This session has 10 presentations: 2:00 PM Introductory Remarks 2:05 PM HTE platform for developing greener C-H […]
Sustainability in Organic Chemistry: Special Student and Postdoc Session
The development of new synthetic methodologies and strategies has been the cornerstone upon which sustainable industrial processes are built. The pure research advances arising from academia fuel the world’s industrial innovation while also training the scientific leaders of tomorrow. This special session highlights the research of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars across the broader, global […]
Practical Considerations for a More Sustainable Medicinal Chemistry DMTA Lifecycle
Covering topics such as in silico tools to filter compound designs to reduce the number of compounds being synthesized; direct to biology type technologies; practical methods to carry out ‘greener chemistry’ for example novel (more efficient/sustainable) methodologies for classical reaction types; new purification methods; alternative reagents to avoid toxic/environmentally damaging reagents; reaction miniaturization efforts for […]
Twenty Years of Sustainable Continuous Flow Chemistry: Lessons Learned
This symposium plans to unite various practitioners of Flow Chemistry across a broad range of modalities and track the evolution of Flow, highlighting the synergies not only with other technologies but also with the academic community. The latter is showcased by a number of grants awarded in this space, while overlaps exist with the Medicinal […]
Peptides, Pepteins, and Proteins: Greener Biomolecule Production and Analysis
Sustainability awareness has increased throughout the chemical and biochemical industries. This awareness has resulted in a desire to improve production processes using greener approaches. This session will share technological advances to reduce the environmental impact of biomolecule production and will include sustainability advances in solid-phase peptide synthesis, hybrid approaches to peptide production, recombinant peptide and […]
Data Science Applications in Base Metal Catalysis
Advancements in base metal catalysis over the last decades have provided scientists with a wide range of synthetic tools to build organic small molecules. These new methodologies have broadened the substrate scope and improved our understanding of reaction mechanisms, resulting in more efficient approaches to building small molecules. In addition to new base-metal-catalyzed transformations, the […]
ACS GCIPR: Strategic Planning and Roadmap Development for Sustainable Technology and Operations
The ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable stands at the forefront of promoting and implementing green chemistry and engineering within the pharmaceutical and allied industries (e.g., agricultural, animal health, etc.) to foster the UN sustainable goal of “Good Health and Well-Being.” For over two decades, the roundtable has advanced sustainable chemical innovations, catalyzed collaborations between […]
Advancing Sustainable Processes in Pharma and Allied Industries via Green Chemistry Innovations
This symposium highlights outstanding research, applications, and innovations from industry and academia that demonstrate compelling environmental, safety, and efficiency improvements over current technologies. Speakers are invited by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable (GCIPR), the leading global organization dedicated to advancing green chemistry and engineering in pharma and allied industries. In this symposium, you […]
Greener Reaction Systems for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
To meet the global health challenges of the future and advance the goal of good health and well-being for all, the pharmaceutical industry must find ways to minimize the human health and environmental impacts of producing medicines. Conventional methods to produce synthetic medicines are solvent-intensive and often rely on hazardous substances leading to climate and […]
Greening the Pharma Supply Chain: Innovations for Early, Intermediate, and Raw Material Processes
Sustainability requires collective efforts from all of us to innovate in the face of declining natural resources. To this end, our symposium aims to showcase cutting-edge green chemistry innovations in the production of structure-complex building blocks or intermediates to minimize environmental footprint (scope 3 emissions). The session will highlight contributions from UNDP/EPA, pharma, biotech, CROs, […]