American association of pharmaceutical scientists (AAPS) and Chinese national institutes for food and drug control (NIFDC) joint workshop on dissolution, bioequivalence, product performance, and quality

This second workshop in China, which was sponsored by AAPS and NIFDC, was well attended as the first one, with more than 300 attendees from industry, drug control, and inspection agencies, and academia, including graduate students from local universities (Fig. 1). It provided a great opportunity for direct dialogue between regulatory, industry, and academic stakeholders to identify the gaps in knowledge to move the field forward. The Q&A sections were well participated , many attendees actively communicated, and discussed variety topics with the panel of speakers. The attendees expressed strong interests in new regulatory guidance, trends in new technology/methodology, novel applications, and expect that such workshop series can continue to provide educational and regulatory application perspectives.