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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.

Drug Digest: From Theory to Reality: Automating Process Development
In this episode of Drug Digest, industry experts discuss the ongoing development of automating biomanufacturing processes, including its challenges and practical applications.
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Gustavo Ferrer, MD, explains how AI accelerates drug development and manufacturing, streamlining clinical data into actionable pharma insights.

A panel at CPHI Frankfurt discussed how AI is transforming pharma talent, necessitating rapid upskilling, bias mitigation, and regulatory changes.

Nigel Langley of gChem stresses excipient innovation, safer solvents, and supply chain resilience for pharma’s future in part 2 of a 2-part interview related to his presentation at CPHI Europe 2025.

Eva-Maria Hempe, NVIDIA, says AI collaboration optimizes life science research via routine automation, freeing human experts for complex strategy, ethics, and exploring scarce data.

Eva-Maria Hempe, NVIDIA, says AI platforms must integrate R&D data, overcoming silos, with adoption demanding a centralized strategy and change management.

CPHI 2025 awards spotlight progress in pharmaceutical manufacturing, API development, automated processing, and sustainability driving future production.

As Thermo Fisher’s Jennifer Cannon explains in this first part of a two-part interview, the collaboration is intended to help improve the speed and success of drug development.

Pharmaceutical Technology® spoke with Peter Freed, head of Global Pharma CTS, Roquette, about a variety of materials-related topics including protein stability, tablet coating, sustainability, and securing the supply chain.

Maggie Saykali, Cefic, emphasizes the importance of competitiveness and innovation for European manufacturers to create added value and maintain environmental standards.

Nigel Langley of gChem discusses the company’s DMSO, proactive pharma strategies, and more in part 1 of a 2-part interview related to his presentation at CPHI Europe 2025.

ACG showcased the expansion of its European presence, and Bora Pharmaceuticals participates in a discussion about CDMO innovation.

Eva-Maria Hempe, NVIDIA, says bio/pharma must centralize AI strategy, tackle silos, prioritize process integrity, and balance quick wins with long-term drug design goals.

React4Life’s Silvia Scaglione emphasizes how organ-on-chip tech and AI are reshaping drug testing, personalized treatment, and the future of bio/pharma innovation.

Maggie Saykali, Cefic, reviews how the EU’s proposed Critical Medicines Act aims to curb supply dependence and shortages by reforming drug procurement.

Eva-Maria Hempe, NVIDIA, explains that accelerated computing, data governance, and “lab in the loop” are key to bio/pharma’s AI strategy for transforming drug discovery and R&D.

Pharmaceutical Technology® spoke with Dr. Weite Oldenziel, CEO of Ofichem, before CPHI Frankfurt 2025 to get his perspective on the API market and why it is important to qualify API suppliers.

Patient adherence is improving thanks to technologies that offer a more personalized experience, deepening the connection between consumers and healthcare brands.

Pharmaceutical Technology® spoke with Christian Dowdeswell, managing director, Arcinova, a Quotient Sciences Company, ahead of CPHI Frankfurt 2025 to find out what makes an end-to-end service provider beneficial to sponsor companies and how digital technologies are changing the industry.

Radiopharmaceuticals are allowing for the targeted treatment of cancers, but they do pose challenges.

Vishal Mukund Sonje, Vaccine Manufacturing Lead, CEPI, talks about the challenges that arise in the manufacturing of vaccines in various global regions and gives a preview of his presentation at CPHI Frankfurt 2025.

In this interview, SGD’s Najet Mebarki previews more than a half dozen products and services the company will showcase at the conference.

Pharmaceutical packaging plays an important role in sustainability efforts. Maija Pohjakallio, VP, Climate and Circular Economy, Metsä Group, explains how fiber-based packaging can help with these efforts.

Pharmaceutical Technology® spoke with Tara Dougal, Event Director for Pharma at Informa Markets about what attendees at CPHI Frankfurt should expect this year.

Pharmaceutical Technology® spoke with Tara Dougal, Event Director for Pharma at Informa Markets about what attendees at CPHI Frankfurt should expect this year.

US domestic manufacturing investment, R&D model shifts, new excipients, and digital traceability are redefining drug development and supply chains.

SK pharmteco boosts US peptide synthesis and purification capabilities, advancing reliable large-scale manufacturing for biopharma innovation.

The new partnership will work to embed digital identification into labware, solving chain-of-identity challenges for individualized cell and gene therapies.

Real-world data can be utilized to ensure quality and effectiveness of drug products.

In this episode of the Ask the Expert video series, Susan J. Schniepp, Regulatory Compliance Associates, and Siegfried Schmitt, Parexel, give their opinions on why those working in the pharmaceutical industry should lend their voices to draft regulations.

Non-parenteral alternatives for biologics remain a clinical imperative and a formidable challenge.

Recent developments show how innovations and treatments for cancer are rapidly advancing.

Major pharmaceutical investments in the United States are expanding API, capsule, and packaging capacity, enhancing supply chain resilience and supporting domestic drug production.























