2025 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo
Join us at the 2025 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo to discover how a partnership with STERIS can strengthen your contamination control strategy with the tools and support you need.
Visit us in Booth 533 to discover our Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide (VHP™) technology, including an in-booth display of the VHP™ Flex Mobile Biodecontamination Unit.
Additionally, learn how our high-performance Washing Equipment, paired with Specially Formulated Detergents helps ensure consistent, reliable cleaning across your operations.
At the show, don’t miss our live presentations—see full details below.
Case Study: Cleaning Validation Design Transfer
Presented by: Paul Lopolito – Director, Technical Services
October 28, 2025 | 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Explore the factors that impact equipment cleaning during facility design and startup, including cleaning agent selection, residue removal, stainless-steel maintenance and more. Learn how these considerations support cleaning validation, regulatory compliance and help reduce delays in biopharmaceutical manufacturing.
Expanding Horizons: VHPs Role in FDA Category A Sterilization
Presented by: Juha Mattila – Senior Manager, Technical Services
October 28, 2025 | 3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Learn how VHP, an FDA Category A sterilization modality, offers a safe, effective and versatile approach to sterilization for various applications. Discover the scientific principles behind the technology and how it fits within the evolving regulatory framework.
Meet the Presenters
Paul Lopolito
With over two decades of industry experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing and laboratory research settings, Paul provides global technical support for process cleaning, cleaning validation and contamination control, which includes field support, site audits, training presentations and educational seminars.
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He holds a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences.
Prior to joining STERIS Life Sciences, Paul spent three years as a Manufacturing Technical Services Manager at Massachusetts Biological Laboratories providing technical support and project management for the vaccine, monoclonal antibody, blood product and filling/packaging groups. He also spent time at TEI Biosciences, where he held positions of Research Associate, Laboratory Manager and Manufacturing Manager.
Paul manages the Process and Cleaner Evaluation (PACE™) program and analytical testing laboratory for STERIS Life Sciences, which simulates a Customer’s cleaning process to make recommendations for improvements and analytical method development and validation. He has expertise in managing cross-functional projects related to process cleaning and critical environment operation with direct experience in the biopharmaceutical and biomedical device industries.
Paul is a frequent speaker at industry events and has published several articles and book chapters related to cleaning validation and contamination control. He is an active member of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) and the Parenteral Drug Association (PDA).
Juha Mattila
Juha has over two decades of experience in pharmaceutical, medical device, research and biosafety technologies.
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At STERIS Life Sciences, he is a Senior Manager of Technical Services for sterilization applications, equipment and critical utilities technologies. Juha’s expertise covers moist heat and Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide (VHP™) sterilization, VHP biodecontamination technologies and Water-for-Injection (WFI) distillation and pure steam systems. He holds a master’s degree in business informatics and a bachelor’s degree in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) and process engineering.
In addition to being an active member of the Parenteral Drug Association (PDA), Nordic Board member for the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) and the Finnish Biosafety Network, Juha has authored several technical articles and spoken at many industry events. He also contributes to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), Finnish Standardization Organization (SFS), American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International and the British Standards Institution (BSI) work groups considering these technologies.
Juha coordinated the STERIS Life Sciences Equipment and Services commentary through the PDA for the European Union (EU) Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Annex 1 draft and participated in the PDA EU GMP Annex 1 Workshops in 2022 and 2024.
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