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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.
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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.