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Biopharma quality control is being revolutionized by advanced analytics and digital transformation through a synergy that boosts quality and scalability.

Drug Digest: Strategic Alliances and Technology Integration in the Evolving Biopharma Landscape
In this episode of Drug Digest, the discussion centers around the optimization of biopharmaceutical manufacturing and supply chain efficiency through the mastering of AI capabilities, data integration, and critical validation challenges.

Drug Digest: Small Molecules, APIs, and Excipients—Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
In this exclusive Drug Digest video, Steve Barr from SK pharmteco and Prasad Raje from LGM Pharma explore how supply chain pressures, sustainability, and AI adoption are reshaping small molecule development and excipient use in pharma.

Drug Digest: Speed, Flexibility Top Large-Molecule Manufacturing Trends
In this exclusive Drug Digest video, Deepak Bahl from Roquette and Jagruti Patel from Lonza look at strategies for accelerating early-stage development while reducing risk, approaches to speeding up timelines for complex formats without sacrificing quality, and maintaining a flexible CMC process that ensures quality.

Drug Digest: Patient Preference Drives Solid Dosage Trends
In this exclusive Drug Digest video, Adi Kaushal from Lonza summarizes the current state of the oral solid dosage market, identifies the main challenges to drug developers, explains how CDMOs are leveraging expert techniques to improve OSD bioavailability, and looks into the future of advancements in drug delivery.

Drug Digest: Keeping Pace with Progressive Technologies in Biopharma Development
This episode of Drug Digest will discuss where the significant bottlenecks are in the development and manufacturing of new molecules resulting from progressive technologies, such as AI and ML, and how best to approach these challenges.

Drug Digest: Strategic Partnerships
In this exclusive Drug Digest video interview John McQuaid from Almac Pharma Services and Sridevi Khambhampaty from Shilpa Biologics delve into the evolution of the bio/pharma outsourcing market and look at how service-providers’ strategies have adapted to meet demand.

Drug Digest: Advances in Small-Molecule Manufacturing
In this exclusive Drug Digest video interview Anil Kane from Thermo Fisher Scientific will be tackling the topic of advances in small-molecule manufacturing and several other experts will provide brief commentaries on associated topics.

Drug Digest: Challenges and Triumphs in Next-Generation Biotherapeutic Development
In this episode of Drug Digest, industry experts discuss their experiences in dealing with the challenges of developing and manufacturing next-generation biotherapeutics as well as triumphs that move the industry as a whole forward.

Drug Digest: Focusing on Solid Dosage Trends and Demand
In this exclusive Drug Digest video interview an industry expert discusses key trends impacting solid dosage drug development and manufacturing.
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Mike Stenberg, LGM Pharma, notes rising FDA audits in China/India and supply chain risks forcing deeper vetting and stock.

Frits Stulp, Implement Consulting, says AI and global collaboration are key to addressing patent cliffs and accelerating regulation.

André Cerbe, CEO of Schlafender Hase, spoke with Pharmaceutical Technology® about the disruptions the pharma industry faced in 2025 and how digital workflows will be key for success in 2026.


Frits Stulp, Implement Consulting, discusses the exciting potential of AI and “trusted regulatory spaces” for drug discovery and delivery.

Megha Sinha, Kamet Consulting, explains how pharma can adopt AI orchestration and living decision engines to mitigate geopolitical risk and boost speed-to-market.

How will plans to rework medicines legislation in the European Union impact drug development, innovation, and market exclusivity?

FDA approve Cytokinetics’ Myqorzo for oHCM. The required REMS for heart failure risk aligns with key regulatory and safety foci.

Executive Director Emer Cooke presents EMA’s achievements for the year.

With pharma sustainability regulations in most of the world getting stricter and partners requiring sustainable practices, it’s important for industry professionals to know the basics.

Dr. Eva-Maria Hempe, NVIDIA, looks back at 2025 and ahead to 2026, noting that AI accelerates pharma overall, particularly in manufacturing and business operations.

In this episode of the Ask the Expert video series, Susan J. Schniepp, Regulatory Compliance Associates (RCA), and Siegfried Schmitt, Parexel, tackle the ever-growing problem of having a properly trained workforce with a variety of needed skill sets.

The author presents lessons from the front lines of oncology, rare disease, and cell and gene therapy submissions.

The authors detail a practical application of specification equivalence to excipients testing to achieve in-house harmonization.

Industry experts talk with PharmTech, Pharmaceutical Commerce, Applied Clinical Trials, and Pharmaceutical Executive about FDA's CNPV pilot program.

In Episode 30, John Androsavich, Benjamin Fryer, and John Wilkerson go behind the headlines.

The FDA Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher pilot program has added J&J’s Tecvayli as the latest voucher recipient.

Life sciences is a decade behind other industries in its optimization and strategic exploitation of data. This is perplexing, given how much companies profess their ambitions to exploit AI. An industry podcast brought together life sciences thought leaders to debate the subject. The panelists noted that really, by now, standardized data should be yielding greater intelligence, and powering pharma’s future, accelerated by AI. If only companies could find new momentum to finally sort out their underlying data. This article sets out some of the key points that arose from the panel.

FDA leadership initiated rapid drug review programs, enhanced transparency by publishing decision letters in real time, and strategically integrated AI into agency operations.

The approval was granted to USAntibiotics, with FDA saying it addresses pronounced antibiotic shortages in the past two decades.

Pharma R&D, formulation, and manufacturing are transforming via HPAPI advances, AI-driven automation, EU regulatory shifts, and patient-centric drug design.

The agency is approaching the new overhaul as a chance to reshape drug regulations in the European Union.

Co-legislators in Europe have reached a provisional agreement on a new pharmaceutical policy framework to help boost competitiveness, innovation, and supply chain security.

A new facility in Tennessee will boost high-speed pharma packaging capacity and strengthen US supply chain support.

The collaboration will initially focus on advanced stages of solid cancers such as colorectal, pancreatic, lung, and breast, but may expand to other cancer types in the future.

The new Tethered Cap, which will be showcased at 2026 Pharmapack Europe, addresses the demand for sustainability with a TE safety ring that remains attached to the cap.

David Basile, VP Technical Operations, Americas, Hovione, explains what regulators expect for the maintenance of GMP facilities and equipment.

Luca Cavazzini, Sales & Marketing Director at IMA Active, discusses some of the industry’s most common manufacturing challenges, such as sustainability, continuous processes, and technology advancements.

In Episode 29, John Androsavich, Benjamin Fryer and John Wilkerson go behind the top headlines from 2025.

Technology advances are converging with cost and time pressures and formulation complexity to drive greater adoption of automated processes.

New drug delivery systems prioritize convenience and customization, using advanced technologies like nano-engineering and non-invasive routes to improve patient outcomes.

Increasing demand, complexity, and potency are driving innovation and investment in HPAPIs.

The articles in this issue reflect an industry in transition, committed to innovation while ensuring safe, reliable, and forward-looking pharmaceutical production.

























