Featured Articles
DEVICE DEVELOPMENT - Connected Auto-Injector Development: How to Leverage Human Factors Engineering
Finola Austin examines the human factors process for such devices, including a detailed look at the recent development of the UniSafe® 1 mL auto-injector.
CELL & GENE THERAPY - Cell & Gene Therapy’s Everest – The Challenges & Opportunities That Will Shape Success
Samir Acharya, PhD, Rajiv Vaidya, PhD, Laura Kerepesi, PhD, and Cyrill Kellerhals, MBA, provide their unique insights as they explore the challenges cell and gene therapy developers and manufacturers are currently facing, those they can expect to see in the future, and more critically, how to overcome them.
SPECIAL FEATURE - Injection Devices: Designing in Sustainability, Usability & Digitization for Patient Compliance
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin, in this exclusive annual feature, highlights how leading device and drug companies are working to address the challenges of usability, sustainability, and technology to increase patient compliance.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW - Sever Pharma Solutions: Development & Manufacturing of High Potent Polymer-Based Dosage Forms
Tony Listro, Vice President of Technology and Site Lead for SPS’s North American site in Putnam, CT, discusses the company’s recent focus areas as well as current plans for expansion.
SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS - Steady Supply in Turbulent Times: The Importance of Secure Supply Chains & Drug Packaging Integrity
Peter Belden offers unique insight into strategies that can be applied to weather the turbulent times ahead and ensure a reliable supply of critical drug products to patients, and explores how sustainability and integrity can be attained with the right packaging and supply chain solutions.
THERAPEUTIC FOCUS - Effect of NE3107 on the Pharmacokinetics Profile of Carbidopa/Levodopa in Patients With Parkinson’s Disease
Joseph M. Palumbo, MD, says addressing Parkinson’s via the inflammatory pathway offers a unique perspective that was virtually unheard of only 10 years ago.
MEDICAL DEVICE TESTING - Breathing Component Biocompatibility: The Practical Application of ISO 18562
Luminita Moraru, MSc, explains how the medical devices industry has grown and is expanding daily and presents the key steps that need consideration when assessing breathing devices.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW - Tarsus Pharmaceuticals: A Journey to Establishing a New Disease Category in Eyecare & Transforming Treatment for Patients With Serious Diseases
Sesha Neervannan, PhD, Chief Operating Officer of Tarsus, discusses the company’s innovative approach to creating a new treatment category for eyelid disease and their strategic focus on advancing other treatments in their pipeline.
2023 Analytical Testing eBook – Analytical Testing Evolves With the Pharma Industry
In this fourth annual Analytical Testing e-book, learn more about Alcami, Stevanati Group, and West and their current contributions and offerings in the outsourcing analytical testing market, as it continues to be a time and money saver for bio/pharma companies.
2023 Respiratory Drug Development eBook – Inhalers Trend Toward Sustainability & Targeted Control
In this fourth annual Respiratory e-book, learn more about Porex and Nemera and their contributions to inhalation drug delivery and device design.
PLATFORM DEVICE - Alina: Shining the “Light” on the Benefits of a Platform Approach to Treating Chronic Conditions
Adam Stops, PhD, says the key to the success of any drug delivery device are factors such as proven technology, low development costs, fast time-to-market, and a strong intellectual property (IP) position for the pharma company, and against this background, platform drug delivery devices have become more important than ever.
SPECIAL FEATURE - Outsourcing Formulation Development & Manufacturing: Putting Customers First
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin speaks with several leading CDMOs from around the globe on their unique development and manufacturing capabilities and technologies, and presents real-world examples of how they have put these to use to produce innovative compounds, lower development costs, and shorten time to market.
FORMULATION FORUM - PLGA – A Versatile Copolymer for Design & Development of Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery
Jim Huang, PhD, and Shaukat Ali, PhD, focus on the chemistry, properties, applications, and regulatory aspects of PLGA, and the future trends in the industry, especially those requiring the development of long-acting injectables for the treatment of a variety of rare diseases and for life cycle management.
DRUG DEVELOPMENT - Overcoming Challenges on the Path From Candidate Selection to First-in-Human Clinical Testing
Eleanor Row, PhD, explores the current challenges drug developers face in transitioning their candidate molecules to first-in-human (FIH) clinical trials, including what the different drug development functions should be considering at this stage, and how an integrated approach can help to accelerate your molecule’s pathway to trial and beyond.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW - Jubilant HollisterStier: The Importance of Expertise in Sterile Fill Finish
Chris Preti, President of Jubilant HollisterStier, discusses how the CMO is handling increased demand for sterile fill finish and how expertise makes a difference to customer relationships and finished product quality.
DEVICE DEVELOPMENT - How to Ensure pMDI Drug Products Are Fit for the Future Market Landscape
Ross Errington explores the latest developments in the pMDI segment and explains the steps pharmaceutical companies need to take to ensure their pMDI drug products are ready to thrive in a very different market environment.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW - Lifecore Biomedical: Emerging From Under the Radar
Darren Hieber discusses his company’s progress after his first year as Sr. Vice President of Corporate Development and Partnerships at Lifecore Biomedical.
EXCIPIENT TECHNOLOGY - A Juggling Act: Factors at Play in Your Choice of Solubilizing Parenteral Excipients
Joey Glassco, MBA, says the power of novel excipients such as Apisolex polymer could revolutionize the parenteral drug development landscape, effectively solubilizing a wide range of APIs without compromising on safety or stability.
CLINICAL TRIALS - How Conversational Data & Listening at Scale Improve Clinical Recruitment
Amy Brown says one of the most effective ways to gather valuable, relevant, and useful information from a clinical trial is by listening to conversations at scale, helping researchers understand the psychosocial factors influencing and affecting a specific patient population.
ANTI-VIRAL RESEARCH - Anti-Viral Activity of Pimpinella anisum Extract In Vitro Study
Fouad Al-Bayaty, Mazen M. Jamil Al-Obaidi, Maryam Haki Al-Doori, and Omar Imad present a study conducted to evaluate the antiviral effectiveness of Pimpinella anisum against dengue virus.
