Pharma Horizons: leading-edge formulation
This report addresses the key factors shaping pharmaceutical formulation, including regulation, QC and analysis.
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This report addresses the key factors shaping pharmaceutical formulation, including regulation, QC and analysis.
Artificial intelligence (AI)-based image analysis tools have the potential to completely revolutionise cancer diagnostics, saving time and money by reducing the need for lab testing and expanding global access to cancer diagnostic services. Here, Pahini Pandya, CEO Panakeia Technologies, discusses such technologies and their potential benefits.
Long before the advent of Coronavirus, next-generation therapies were making headlines, but the successful development of COVID-19 vaccines, including mRNA vaccines, has now shone a spotlight on next-generation therapies. This offers a boost to the long-term growth projections for the advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) sector. But although ATMPs hold…
Creating new biologic drugs from early research is a complex process, but certain development methodologies and practices are proving to reach clinical and commercial goals faster. In this article, Seahee Kim from Samsung Biologics provides insight into how contract development and manufacturing organisations (CDMOs) are applying new and effective methodologies…
In this article, Dr Michael Koeris, Associate Professor, Bioprocessing at Keck Graduate Institute, and Carolina Moraes de Souza, Keck MEng graduate, now Process Development Senior Associate at Amgen, discuss the key formulation considerations for bacteriophages, a potential solution to antimicrobial resistance, and why process development should be an early consideration.
Here, Daniel Ghinn of CREATION.co discusses the growing role social media analysis is playing in helping to provide pharmaceutical companies and health regulators with real-world evidence on drug safety.
Kris Sterkens, Company Group Chairman of Janssen EMEA and Managing Director of Janssen Pharmaceutica considers how alterations made to COVID-19 vaccine development procedures could benefit future drug development pipelines.
Patricia Grace, Senior Director, Eurofins Professional Scientific Services (PSS) Europe, shares reasons for the success of the model within the bio/pharma industry.
The biopharmaceutical industry performed significantly above average in EcoAct’s Climate Reporting Performance analysis – but what steps are big pharma companies taking to improve sustainability and how much further do they need to go?
Rich Quelch, Global Head of Marketing at DiD,1 explores how packaging can help pharma to cut costs, uphold high quality standards and improve health outcomes.
The microbial content of the gut has a well established role in health and disease. In this article, European Pharmaceutical Review’s Hannah Balfour explores the development and formulation of live biotherapeutic products (LBPs), an emerging treatment modality that seeks to capitalise on the interaction between the microbiota and host in…
Achieving prompt and profitable market access for new pharma products has never been more challenging. Next-generation drug launches are increasing in number year on year, creating strong competition, and treatments are becoming more tightly targeted, reducing the size of available markets. In addition, biologic drugs are highly complex and expensive…
Celeste Maksim, Chief of Staff, Clinical and Post-Market Practice, RQM+ advises on strategising for PMCF compliance, highlighting areas to prioritise to ensure an efficient process.
This article presents the findings from a study to establish optimum formulation parameters for effective effervescent vitamin C tablet production.
Transition Analysis (TA) is a method traditionally used to evaluate the condition and integrity of a chromatography column. However, this method generally requires conducting complex data post‑processing and calculations which are hard to automate and to run in real time during the manufacturing process. Thus, completing the TA offline leads…
The outbreak of coronavirus has had an extraordinarily positive impact on the global chromatography systems market. This article explores the expected surge in demand for chromatography systems post‑pandemic and the future potential of the market.