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PFS MANUFACTURING – Prefilled Syringes & Biologics: The Perfect Partnership of Medicine & Delivery
Anish Parikh charts the twin rise of biologics and PFS, outlines some of the common challenges associated with filling and dispensing, and discusses how a patient-centric partnership approach can help biopharmaceutical companies shorten the development pathway and ensure a reliable supply of safe, effective medicines for the people who need them.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW – Adare Pharmaceuticals: A Virtual Acquisition is Possible
Ajay Damani, VP of Pharmaceutical Technologies Business Unit, Adare, and Maria Flynn, President and CEO, Orbis, discuss how both companies will benefit from the acquisition, future product development, and the challenges of a virtual acquisition.
SPECIAL FEATURE – Prefilled Syringes & Parenteral Manufacturing: Innovations, Challenges & Solutions
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin features several leading companies’ innovations in delivery devices as well as how contract parenteral manufacturers are addressing the ever-demanding challenges, issues, and opportunities related to delivering biologics and small molecules.
SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS – Storage and Distribution Support for Clinical Trials Worldwide
Patient centricity has moved to the forefront of clinical trials. Direct-to-patient (DTP) services provide convenience, and lead to greater participation and retention, addressing two key challenges that face study sponsors Yourway has.
DRUG DISCOVERY – Disrupting Drug Discovery From Assay Development to Lead Compound
Zack Gurard-Levin, PhD, says with new innovations in assay methodologies, scientists no longer have to make sacrifices to do quality drug discovery research.
ANALYTICAL SERVICES – Applying Innovative Thinking & Techniques to Reduce Time-to-Market
Ramesh Jagadeesan, PhD, says that while CDMOs have the capacity to support pharmaceutical companies with their analytical requirements for both small and large-scale projects, the opportunity exists to increase speed to market with innovative thinking.
RISK-BASED MONITORING – Making the Move to RBM: Improving Patient Safety & Data Quality With Real-Time Insights
Crystal Stone and Amanda Coogan indicate that in an era in which the time- and resource-intensive business model of developing blockbuster drugs has been supplanted by a push to move drug candidates through the pipeline with greater speed, accuracy, and quality, RBM and real-time data analytics are becoming a must-have for clinical trials.
LYOPHILIZATION – Process Monitoring During Freeze-Drying
Gregory A. Sacha, PhD, describes the devices used for process monitoring and how they can be used to detect end points during the process.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW – Tedor Pharma, Inc.: A Strategy Shift to Serve Both Generic & Branded Companies
Doug Drysdale, President & CEO of Tedor Pharma, Inc., discusses the FLEXITAB technology, his strategy for managing a shift in business model, and how Tedor is addressing the needs of small- and medium-size companies developing innovative and repurposed small molecules for unmet medical needs.
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING – How Life Sciences Companies Are Leveraging NLP From Molecule to Market
Jane Z. Reed, PhD, MA, discusses some of the challenges facing pharma researchers and executives; the benefit NLP can bring; and some specific customer-use cases (covering patent landscaping, gene disease associations, access to safety silos, and more).
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Nexelis Acquires GSK Vaccines Clinical Bioanalytical Laboratory
Nexelis, a portfolio company of Ampersand Capital Partners, and a leading provider of advanced assay development and laboratory testing services in the infectious, oncologic, and metabolic diseases fields, has signed an asset purchase agreement with GSK to….
Achieving Quality of Filling Operations for Biopharmaceuticals
In the process of aseptic manufacturing of prefilled drug delivery systems, the main goal is the prevention of any contamination of the final product. The best course of action is the….
Hovione Launches the Most Advanced Screening Service for Optimal Spray Dried Dispersions Formulation
Hovione, the leader in Pharmaceutical Spray Drying, recently announced the launch of ASD-HIPROS, a proprietary screening service for spray dried dispersions…..
BD Advances Immunology Research by Enabling Researchers to Investigate 30 Immune Markers in a Single Experiment
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) recently announced the commercial release of the BD AbSeq Immune Discovery Panel (IDP), a state-of-the-art, pre-titrated antibody-oligo-based discovery tool designed to….
Baxter Biopharma Solutions Announces Sterile Manufacturing Agreement for Novavax’s Covid-19 Vaccine
Baxter International Inc. recently announced that Baxter BioPharma Solutions has entered into an agreement to provide sterile manufacturing services for NVX-CoV2373, Novavax’s COVID-19 recombinant nanoparticle….