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Drug Digest: Closing the Gap in Modern Process Control and Automation for QC/QA
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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Starting with risk mitigation, GMP facility and equipment maintenance is all about anticipating problems before they happen and showing regulators a controlled environment.

The agency is expanding its use of artificial intelligence (AI) with the deployment of agentic AI for staff to create more complex AI workflows and harness AI models.

Live cell phenotypic screening can enhance translational predictability and speed up lead optimization.

As advanced manufacturing technologies reshape pharmaceutical production, the Qualified Person (QPs) must evolve from a traditional document reviewer into a digitally fluent leader capable of navigating complex data ecosystems, real-time analytics, and automated control systems. This article presents a holistic framework for “Certification by Design,” highlighting how QPs can ensure compliant, agile, and science-based batch release in the era of Industry 4.0.

The first patient visit has taken place for the SURMOUNT-REAL UK clinical trial of Eli Lilly and Company’s weight-loss drug, tirzepatide.

3D printing enables personalized precise drug delivery, enhances compounding efficiency, and is driving new regulatory models like distributed pharmaceutical manufacturing.

With big moves and investments being made via pharma outsourcing, it’s important for industry professionals to stay on top of trends and innovations.

AI transforms formulation, bioanalysis, and manufacturing; accelerated FDA reviews demand parallel development readiness; new nasal spray enhances patient drug access.

While the deadline to make oral presentations has passed, public comment can be submitted up to a month after the workshop is held on Dec. 16.

Five experts in the bio/pharmaceutical industry explore the FDA Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher (CNPV) pilot program.

Machine learning tools are now moving from concept to validated applications, driving transformative shifts in bioanalysis, preclinical testing, and formulation optimization across the industry.

Five bio/pharmaceutical industry experts discuss the impacts of the FDA Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher (CNPV) pilot program.

AI, in-silico modeling, and rational design streamline drug formulation; rapid regulatory pathways demand pre-submission perfection in quality and parallel execution.

Industry experts weigh in on the CNPV's demands for flawless CMC pre-submission, affordable pricing, expanded communication, and more.


In this episode of the Ask the Expert video series, Susan J. Schniepp, Regulatory Compliance Associates (RCA), Siegfried Schmitt, Parexel, and Anita Michaels, RCA, explain how CDMOs can best handle regulatory inspections and client expectations.

The conclusion of this interview with Sanjay Konagurthu focuses on simulations and calculations that go beyond simple screening.

FDA’s CNPV pilot aims to speed drug reviews but raises questions about safety trade-offs, resource strain, and unclear incentives for sponsors.

Sanjay Konagurthu of Thermo Fisher Scientific discusses how AI and ML can help solve the dilemma of poor solubility.

To meet rising demand, developers of precision radiopharmaceutical therapies must overcome challenges in global isotope supply and align R&D platforms with evolving FDA guidance on clinical dosimetry.

The European Union aims to become the most attractive destination for clinical research.

Mechanistic models and hypothesis-driven strategies generate optimized efficient solutions for drug development, says Catalent’s Nathan Bennette at AAPS PharmSci 360.

Quality, stability, sustainability, and the increased and thoughtful integration of artificial intelligence are foremost in the minds of those on the leading edge of testing trends.

CHMP supports an enhanced nusinersen regimen, according to Biogen, indicating possible SMA treatment shifts and international regulatory decisions.

Corey Bloom of Lonza outlines major points from his AAPS presentation, from drug delivery technology selection to the importance of CDMO partnerships.

Accelerated drug development insights using AI/digital twins, advanced bioanalysis, targeted delivery, and optimized formulation stability models.

To prevent catastrophic loss of expertise and investment, government and academic leaders say coordinated policy and significant investment in workforce talent are urgently needed in the UK.

Take our survey to voice your opinions on the bio/pharma industry impacts of the FDA Commissioner’s National Priority Vouchers program.

A worldwide, exclusive license is being granted to develop and commercialize enzyme replacement therapies using proprietary platform technology.

At AAPS PharmSci 360 2025, Elly Zhou says digital twins helped forecast the effects of drugs on human drugs via a digital control arm.

At AAPS PharmSci 360, Xialing Li, PhD, says 3D-printed budesonide tablets achieve precise, delayed delivery to the ileum for IgA nephropathy, lowering in vivo variability.

At AAPS PharmSci 360, Xuanzi Zhou says digital twins accurately predict ex vivo lung function, revealing therapeutic effects missed by conventional preclinical drug testing.

Siddhant Sojitra, Alexion, defines in an AAPS PharmSci 360 2025 presentation an agitation model to reliably test stability for early-stage biologics.






















