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PLASMA-DERIVED BIOLOGICS – New Fractionation Process to Expand Availability of Plasma-Derived Treatments
Jeffrey B. Davis, MBA, explains how his company has initiated a three-phase process of scaling up the Salt Diafiltration Process, validating it for required FDA filings, and ultimately running the process at production scale to enable the clinical trial product to be produced.
MANAGEMENT INSIGHT – Homeopathy & Other Irrational Things People Believe
Derek Hennecke provides an interesting perspective on how pseudoscience kills. And yet, so many people – even smart people like those in the military and government leaders – believe it. Why do smart people believe stupid things?
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW – Patheon: Comprehensive Development & Manufacturing Solutions for the Entire Drug Development Cycle
Franco Negron, Patheon’s Senior VP of Drug Product Services, discusses his company’s business strategy, two recent acquisitions and integration plans, the role biosimilars play in Patheon’s business, and significant trends driving the pharmaceutical industry over the next few years.
EXTERNAL DELIVERY – Perfuming the Pig
My apologies to the swine lovers of the world for the title to my column this month. I like pigs. They’re cute, smart, have a…
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW – SOLIZE: 3D Data-Based Engineering & Manufacturing to Accelerate Delivery Device Development
Yoshiki Matsuda, Director of SOLIZE, discusses how his company can create new and innovative solutions to accelerate the development of devices and combination products built thereon.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW – Gerresheimer: Plastic Perfection
Niels Düring discusses Gerresheimer’s Plastic Packaging division and the complementary synergies working for a company that also manufactures glass provides.
THERAPEUTIC FOCUS – Adenosine Receptors – The Promise of A3AR Research
Pnina Fishman, PhD, reports that the A3AR adenosine receptor, expressed in the lungs, liver, brain, aorta, testis, and heart, may hold promise as both a therapeutic target and as a biological predictive marker.
EXTERNAL DELIVERY – Fight the Good Fight
John A. Bermingham says all of us have experienced situations in which we feel strongly about an issue or project and are prepared to “fight” for what we so strongly believe in. Courage is mandatory in these circumstances; however, courage alone is not the only necessity.
THE SECOND QUADRANT – The Birth of Physical Pharma: 1920-1960
Marshall Crew, PhD, observes progress that enabled spray drying for pharmaceutical applications, as well as other progress that has enabled the solubilization technologies and approaches we use today.
ADVANCED DELIVERY DEVICES – Design & Evaluation of a Polymer-Based Prefillable Syringe for Biopharmaceuticals With Improved Functionality & Performance
Sagarika Bose, PhD, and Kevin Constable address the design of a new commercially available polymer-based prefillable syringe with enhanced performance features when combined with complex biopharmaceutical drug products.
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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.