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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – Modernizing Your Clinical Development Safety Practices With Artificial Intelligence
Updesh Dosanjh, MS, says by continuing to explore the ability of these technologies to deliver better and safer treatments, pharmaceutical companies can benefit not only the advancement of the medical community, but the quality of life of patients around the world.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW – Adare Pharma Solutions: The Journey to Become a Full-Service Provider
Tom Sellig, CEO at Adare Pharma Solutions, discusses his expectations for Adare and how he can leverage his 30-plus years of pharma experience to put Adare in a competitive position to address complex formulation and development challenges.
FREEZE-DRYING MICROSCOPY – Unravelling the Complexities of Freeze-Drying Pharmaceuticals With Advanced Microscopy Techniques
Paul Matejtschuk, PhD, Prof Yvonne Perrie, and Robert Gurney, PhD, say FDM is being used to analyze the most challenging formulations that require sophisticated stabilization methods. By altering and adapting the three main freeze-drying stages to specific formulations, researchers are providing the tools needed for the pharma industry to improve its drug development processes and maintain drug stability when scaling up to production.
REGENERATIVE MEDICINE – Delivering on the Promise of Regenerative Medicine in Type 1 Diabetes
Thomas Donner, MD, explains how advances in stem-cell engineering, immune-evasion technologies, and vascularization of implanted cells have the potential to generate novel therapeutics that could lead to reduced treatment burden for patients with T1D and infuse new energy into efforts at finding a cure.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW – PCI Pharma Services: Broadening Our Biologics Footprint, Together
Shawn Cain, SVP Development & Manufacturing at PCI Pharma Services, discusses the recent acquisition, the opportunities this presents to Biopharma companies, and the current trends in the sterile fill-finish industry.
MEDICAL DEVICE UX DESIGN – Bridging the Divide Between People & Products: How UX Design Can Improve Medical Device Product Development
Aditya Jagannathan explains how human factors and industrial design can bridge the divide between people and products to maximize the likelihood that new medical devices will be safe and effective for the intended uses, users, and use environments.
AUTOMATION SOLUTIONS – The Future of Lab Tech Will Combine Automation, Accuracy & Agility
Rich Ellson and John Fuller, PhD, say accelerating development comes down to designing and using flexible automation solutions along with smarter instruments and new consumable paradigms to help meet researchers’ needs.
CELL & GENE THERAPY – State of the Industry – Where is C> Headed?
Bill Vincent believes if the industry wants to keep moving up the steep growth curve, then capacity and raw materials must be readily available. The innovations in therapies, platforms, and processes will all come with time, money, and increasing availability of resources.
SPECIAL FEATURE – Excipients: Exciting Expansion & Innovation
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin speaks with several companies and presents a unique look at how excipients are being used to support current and future innovative active pharmaceutical ingredients.
GLOBAL REPORT – 2021 Global Drug Delivery & Formulation Report: Part 1, A Review of 2021 Product Approvals
In part 1 of this 3-part series, PharmaCircle, in collaboration with Drug Development & Delivery, focuses on a global review of 2021 product approvals.
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Unicycive Therapeutics Announces Orphan Drug Designation Granted for UNI-494 for the Prevention of Delayed Graft Function in Kidney Transplant Patients
Unicycive Therapeutics, Inc. recently announced the US FDA has granted orphan drug designation (ODD) to UNI-494 for the prevention of Delayed Graft Function (DGF) in kidney….
2019 Analytical Testing in Drug Development eBook – Regulations Help Propel Testing Market
This e-Book showcases the various types of services that leading testing companies offer and how they are helping industry comply with regulations to get their products approved and commercialized.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW – Oasmia Pharmaceutical: Commercializing Technologies While Pursuing the US Market
Julian Aleksov, Executive Chairman of Oasmia Pharmaceutical, discusses his company’s efforts to enter the US market, its strategy to increase commercial adoption, and why it believes its underlying drug delivery system technology is significant not only within the oncology sector, but the entire pharmaceutical industry.
LIPOPHILIC SALTS – Opportunities & Applications in Oral Drug Delivery
Hywel Williams, PhD, Annabel Igonin, PhD, David Vodak, PhD, and Hassan Benameur, PhD, believe lipophilic salts are being explored in a number of different areas and one interesting application is their potential to boost API loading in lipid formulations.