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Understanding the effect of API changes in pharmaceutical processing; Improving the consistency of MDI drug delivery; and Expert Views with DDF Summit and Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories...
The first part of an in-depth article on Quality by Design (QbD), published in European Pharmaceutical Review in December 2016, focused on designing quality in to a pharmaceutical drug product by considering dosage form design, and understanding the importance of active pharmaceutical ingredients’ (APIs’) and excipients’ properties.
21 February 2017 | By Viavi Solutions Inc.
This webinar presented the use of MicroNIR PAT for monitoring the endpoint of powder blending operations and discussed challenges that need to be addressed for successful implementation...
Quality by Design (QbD) precepts provide opportunities for enhancing efficiencies and reducing costs, especially for generic products. Over 80% of prescriptions dispensed in the United States in 2012 utilised generic dosage forms and it is unlikely that this proportion will increase to any extent because fewer innovative drugs are set…
Spray drying is a proven, flexible and scalable process used within the pharmaceutical industry to address a wide range of formulation and drug delivery challenges. Its versatility has been proven through applications to both small chemical and biopharmaceutical drugs for product delivery via multiple routes of administration.
19 October 2016 | By Viavi Solutions Inc.
In this webinar, experts from Viavi, Pfizer & Université Laval discussed how MicroNIR is used to optimise fluid bed drying and to reduce waste at tablet compression...
Currently, subcutaneous delivery of therapeutic proteins is a fast-growing field, especially for such established modalities as monoclonal antibodies, which require large quantities of drug to be administrated. Different approaches, including high protein concentration, speciality formulations and drug delivery matrices, as well as devices enabling a more rapid administration of larger…
From a microbiological perspective, pharmaceutical products fall into two categories – nonsterile and sterile. For both categories manufacturers must eliminate, or minimise, potential health risks to patients related to microorganisms and the toxins they produce, whilst maintaining product quality. Many contributing factors may affect the quality of a medicine or…
Researchers from the National University of Singapore have found a way to make personalised medicine cheaper and easier.
In Issue #1 2016: Regulation, Drug Delivery, Raman, PAT, Formulation, NIR, Microbiology, and much more...
22 October 2015 | By Iain Moore, President, EXCiPACT asbl
There has always been a regulatory requirement for pharmaceutical manufacturers to audit their starting material suppliers, but the expectations are even clearer now that these audits, including those for excipients, have to be in vivo. With increasing requirements for physical audits, can all pharmaceutical companies address the number of audits…
22 October 2015 | By John Carpenter, University of Colorado / Amber Haynes, Fradkin KBI Biopharma / Christina Vessely, Biologics Consulting Group Inc.
Quantifying and sizing subvisible particles in biopharmaceutical products are crucial aspects of formulation development, stability studies, process development, product release and extended characterisation of the final drug product.
3 September 2015 | By Benjamin K. Hodnett, Anita R. Maguire, Pat J. Guiry, Ake C. Rasmuson, Brian Glennon and Abina M. Crean - SSPC
The Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC), a global hub of pharmaceutical process innovation and advanced manufacturing, is funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and Industry, and represents a unique collaboration between 22 industry partners, nine research performing organisations and 12 international academic collaborators. It is a €42 million…
20 April 2015 | By Ravendra Singh, Marianthi Ierapetritou and Rohit Ramachandran: Rutgers University
Continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing together with process analytical technology (PAT) provides a suitable platform for automatic feed-forward/feed-back (FF/FB) control of the end product quality as desired by quality by design (QbD)-based efficient manufacturing. The precise control of the quality of the pharmaceutical product requires proactive, corrective actions on the process/raw material…
28 October 2014 | By Axel Becker, Scientist, Merck KGaA
Over the past decades, pharmaceutical drug development has undergone some significant changes, a prominent example for this being the emergence of biomolecular drugs (New Biological Entities, NBEs) such as antibodies and peptides. However, classical small molecule drugs (New Chemical Entities, NCEs) are far from being a dying species, and in…
