SPECIAL FEATURE - Injection Devices: Will COVID-19 Deliver Growth to the Market? September 1, 2020

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin interviews several leading companies and highlights trends in autoinjectors, pen injectors, wearable devices and connectivity, and prefilled syringes.

PFS MANUFACTURING - Prefilled Syringes & Biologics: The Perfect Partnership of Medicine & Delivery June 4, 2020

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.

SPECIAL FEATURE - Prefilled Syringes & Parenteral Manufacturing: Innovations, Challenges & Solutions May 5, 2020

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.

ANALYTICAL SERVICES - Applying Innovative Thinking & Techniques to Reduce Time-to-Market May 4, 2020

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.

SPECIAL FEATURE - Outsourcing Formulation Development & Manufacturing: CDMOs Shift to Offer More Specialized Services June 5, 2019

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin speaks with several innovative CDMOs to discuss their formulation development and manufacturing capabilities (as well as shifting strategies) for bio/pharma companies of all sizes.

SPECIAL FEATURE - Prefilled Syringes & Parenteral Manufacturing: Flexibility for Faster Development April 30, 2019

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin interviews several contract manufacturers and device developers who are responsible for creating next-generation parenteral drug delivery.

SPECIAL FEATURE - Outsourcing Analytical Testing: The Gateway to Drug Manufacturing January 10, 2019

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin speaks with several leading analytical labs and CDMOs to review their technologies, services, and new strategies to operate in this ever-changing environment.

SPECIAL FEATURE - Outsourcing Formulation Development & Manufacturing: CDMOs Are Innovating for 21st-Century Medicine June 6, 2018

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin speaks with some of the industry’s leading CDMOs about the innovations they are developing for next-generation patient care, and how many are making investments that are enabling them to offer more services under one roof.

EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW - PCT: Manufacturing the Future of Cell Therapies May 1, 2017

Robert A. Preti, PhD, discusses his company’s critical distinction from most other manufacturing partners, steady growth, and the primary challenges facing the cell therapy industry.

Cobra Biologics Embarks on Gene Therapy Manufacturing Operations Expansion April 24, 2017

SOFTGEL FORMULATIONS - Lipid-Based Drug Delivery System to Bring Poorly Soluble Drugs to Market August 30, 2016

Ronak Savla, PhD, PharmD, and Jeffrey E. Browne, PhD, indicate formulation screening, development, scale-up, and commercial manufacture of LBDDSs require considerable expertise, and choosing an outsourcing partner with experience and a proven track record is critical.

SPECIAL FEATURE - Prefilled Syringes & Parenteral Contract Manufacturing: Biologics Present a New Set of Challenges May 2, 2016

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin speaks with leading syringe developers and contract manufacturers to discuss how they are overcoming industry challenges and provides a look at some of the innovative advancements in prefilled syringe technology.

SPECIAL FEATURE - Prefilled Syringes & Parenteral Contract Manufacturing: Anticipating the Needs of the Future May 5, 2015

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin speaks with several companies in the prefilled syringe and parenteral manufacturing market that are offering a range of services and systems that cater to today’s issues as well as anticipating the needs of the future.

SPECIAL FEATURE - Prefilled Syringes & Parenteral Contract Manufacturing - Product Differentiation Is Critical May 8, 2014

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin speaks with several of these suppliers and manufacturers about the importance of customization and differentiation as the key to pharma companies staying competitive in the prefilled syringe space.

SPECIAL FEATURE - Outsourcing Formulation Development & Manufacturing: Early-Stage Partnerships Are On The Rise April 2, 2014

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin asked leading CMOs and CDMOs to describe the value-added services they offer with respect to formulation and manufacturing. Solving challenges of insufficient solubility, poor stability, identifying excipient candidates, and particle design topped their list of offerings.

MARKET BRIEF - Financial Performance Benchmarking & Competitive Landscape Assessment of Leading CROs November 18, 2013

Adam M. Dion, MS, summarizes GlobalData’s recent CRO Benchmark Report and believes the dynamics of pharmaceutical outsourcing and location decisions in emerging markets are changing. Cost reduction is being augmented and will gradually be eclipsed by footprint growth as a major factor shaping decisions, and CROs are realizing that the ability to be on the ground closer to their customers is a key building block to establishing sustainable, long-term relationships with clients.

SPECIAL REPORT - Prefilled Syringes & Parenteral Contract Manufacturing: Improving for Flexibility & Customization April 30, 2013

Special Feature: Contributor Cindy H. Dubin speaks with prefilled syringe manufacturers as well as contract parenteral manufacturers who share their thoughts about the delivery challenges associated with high-viscous, high-volume formulations.

PCI Pharma Services Begins Installation of Sterile Fill-Finish & Lyophilization Line as Part of $100-M New Facility Expansion May 2, 2024

PCI Pharma Services has begun installation of key equipment for its newest sterile fill-finish facility on the company’s Bedford, NH campus. Twin lyophilizers and a state-of-the-art large-scale isolator….

Elizabeth Hickman to Succeed Tim Scott as AustinPx CEO March 5, 2024

AustinPx, developers of the next generation amorphous dispersion platform, KinetiSol Technology, and a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), recently announced Elizabeth Hickman, Chief Business Officer, will succeed….

FORMULATION FORUM - Lipid Nanoparticles – Carriers for Nucleic Acids Delivery January 26, 2024

Shaukat Ali, PhD, and Jim Huang, PhD, describe the role of individual components in aggregation, packing, stability, efficacy, and potency of nucleic acids, the understanding of which is important to achieve better designed and smarter formulations, and robust scale up and manufacturing of LNPs.