Bio Platforms
ORAL MUCOSAL IMMUNOTHERAPY – Oral Mucosal Delivery of Allergenic Proteins for Inducing Tolerance in Food Allergic Individuals
William R. Reisacher, MD, highlights some of the differences between food allergy immunotherapy via the oral mucosal route versus exposure through the stomach and intestines.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY – ESCP, Estimating Product Performance Part 1 – Playground Physics
Josef Bossart, PhD, introduces, in a series of short articles, a qualitative model to help understand and visualize the potential of a product with prescribers, patients, and payors. This simple model can help weed out product ideas that may at first glance seem attractive but offer little potential in the real world.
ProPerma™ Oral Formulation Technology
ProPerma™ uniquely improves both permeability and bioavailability of BCS III and BCS IV compounds by deploying an innovative and bespoke combination of GRAS and novel enhancing excipients…
MULTI-PARTICULATE MANUFACTURING – How Does Experiment Design Affect Multi-Particulates Manufacturing?
Namrata Vora, MS, Danica Cartwright, Karthikeyan Selvaraj, MPharm, and Ryan Larmon, MS, discuss how the careful application of design of experiment studies is an invaluable tool in proving the design space of complex formulations and manufacturing processes.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW – BiologIC Technologies: The Future Microsoft for the Biorevolution
Richard Vellacott, CEO of BiologIC Technologies, discusses his company’s unique technology and its applications in the future of medicine and wider fields of synthetic biology.
BIOSIMILAR DEVELOPMENT – Biosimilars: The Process & Quality System Approach to Clinical Applications
Kaiser Aziz, PhD, addresses biosimilar developments and future innovations with an emphasis placed on quality system approaches to the development and availability of new biosimilar products.
2021 COMPANY PROFILES & CAPABILITIES
For each participating company, this section presents a detailed summary highlighting their core technologies, capabilities, technologies, and services.
PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY – Overcoming the Challenges of Drug Brain Delivery With a Novel Brain Delivery Vector
Mei Mei Tian, PhD, explains how the xB3 platform has the potential to support development of treatments for CNS diseases that can treat thousands of patients in the years ahead.
VACCINE DEVELOPMENT – COVID-19 Vaccine Focusing on T Cells to Protect the Most Vulnerable
Jeffrey Wolf, MBA, JD, says while most vaccines in development are targeted to protect healthy people, few are focusing on those who are most at risk – seniors and those with co-morbidities like heart failure, obesity, or type 2 diabetes.
PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY – Morphomer(TM) & SupraAntigen(TM) Platforms: Targeting Misfolded Proteins in Neurodegenerative Disorders
Andrea Pfeifer, PhD, details the efforts to develop the therapeutic and diagnostic tools necessary to enable precision medicine approaches targeting the right protein, at the right time, in the right patient.
EXCLUSIVE ONLINE CONTENT
Centogene & Twist Bioscience to Develop Advanced Sequencing Tools to Make Genetic Testing Rapidly Accessible for More Patients With Rare Diseases
Centogene N.V. and Twist Bioscience Corporation recently announced they have signed a contract to collaborate on the development and commercialization of custom assay kits for rare diseases…..
Agenus to Receive $20-Million Milestone Payment From Bristol Myers Squibb With Dosing of First Patient
Agenus Inc. recently announced it has triggered the first development milestone payment under its global licensing agreement with Bristol Myers Squibb for AGEN1777, an Fc-enhanced bispecific….
Metrics Contract Services Enters Partnership to Develop Oncology Drug
Metrics Contract Services, the US-based contract pharmaceutical development and manufacturing division of Mayne Pharma, recently announced the signing of a development and manufacturing agreement with….
Avacta Group Announces Achievement of Preclinical Development Milestone in LG Chem Life Sciences Partnership
Avacta Group plc recently announced a preclinical development milestone has been achieved in the multi-target therapeutics development partnership with LG Chem Life Sciences, the life sciences division of the South Korean LG Group, triggering an….
Novigenix & Radbound University Medical Center Discover the First Blood-Based ImmunoTranscriptomic Biomarkers for Response to Anti-PD-1 Therapy
Novigenix SA recently announced release of the article Whole Blood Transcriptome Profiling Identifies DNA Replication and Cell Cycle Regulation as Early Marker of Response to Anti-PD-1 in Patients with Urothelial Cancer. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have become….