Patrick Lavery

PharmTech Group sat down with Anil Kane of Thermo Fisher Scientific live on site at DCAT Week 2025, to talk about technologies and digital solutions companies are using to meet demand across the bio/pharma industry.

PharmTech Group interviewed Lee Karras of Noramco live on site at DCAT Week 2025, shortly after the company announced a $25 million investment in sterile injectable manufacturing capabilities at its Halo Pharma facility in New Jersey.

The Member Company Announcement Forum is the kickoff event of the annual DCAT Week in New York City, which is being held from March 17–20.

This model is being positioned by Shilpa as a dual approach that offers comprehensive discovery, clinical, and commercial outsourcing services in addition to commercially ready, “off-the-shelf” novel formulations for b2b licensing.

The certification allows Benuvia to produce pharmaceutical products for companies, either local to Brazil or international, that may be looking for compliant and high-quality production capabilities in the Brazilian pharmaceutical market.

The company plans to add 16,000 pallet spaces to the 13,000 it already has on site, making for a total of 68,000 pallet spaces covering various temperature requirements.

The company’s US entity, Iwata Label USA, will exhibit its Vial Protect Pack, Light Protect Pack, and Shrink Tack Label.

The multi-year strategic partnership is intended to support commercial demand of Viking Therapeutics’ GLP-1 candidate, VK2735.

The transaction includes Unloxcyt (cosibelimab-ipdl), which was approved by FDA in December 2024 for treatment of adults with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC).

Rivaroxaban, long known under the brand name Xarelto, is an anticoagulant, a classification that is among the most-prescribed medications in the United States.

The company’s 100,000-sq.-ft. space is expected to enhance its capabilities for commercial oral dose treatment manufacturing in a variety of therapeutic areas.

Sterimove will make its North American debut at the April 1–3, 2025 event.

The investment is intended for the Halo Pharma facility in Whippany, NJ, and aims to help relieve capacity shortages in the injectable supply chain in the United States.

The €4 million (US$4.3 million) project is current good manufacturing practice compliant, and includes an accompanying cartoning machine.

The detector features specialized, solid-state dual infrared (IR) sources and dual IR receivers which provide continual cross-checks and internal adjustments to adhere to factory calibration.

The alterations are the result of an agency review of findings from a clinical trial, and data from required postmarket studies.

The company said this blender supports applications for which either stainless steel or carbon steel may not be suitable.

More and more contract manufacturers have been looking not at what the state of the supply chain is right now, but what it may be in the next three to five years.

The company first announced its intention to build the state-of-the-art facility as part of a €900 million investment in July 2024.

The company now performs product-sterility testing through rapid microbiological methods at two laboratory sites in the United States and one in Germany.

Xiao-Yan Cai, PhD, shares insights into her leadership style, the importance of motivation in the workplace, and how she balances repetition with innovation, discussing how hobbies and resilience uniquely shape her professional approach, emphasizing the value of perseverance and preparation in both science and life.

CHMP gave its opinion and a recommendation for marketing authorization to Fabhalta (iptacopan), an oral, Factor B inhibitor of the alternative complement pathway.

Jaypirca (pirtobrutinib) has received a conditional marketing authorization from EMA for mantle cell lymphoma. The drug was approved in the United States in 2023 for several indications.

More than 6000 rare diseases—those which affect fewer than one in 2000 people each—are acknowledged in the medical community, with 72% of them being genetic.

Regulatory clearances and approvals continue as agencies work to disseminate literature, raise awareness, redouble research efforts, and improve the efficacy of clinical trials.

Previous domestic capital expansion commitments since 2020 had been made in Research Triangle Park and Concord, both in North Carolina; Kenosha County, Wisconsin; Lebanon, Indiana; and Lilly’s home city of Indianapolis.

While the boards of directors of both companies have approved the transaction, it is not expected to close until the second quarter of 2025, as Mayne Pharma’s shareholders must still vote in favor of the acquisition.

With 2025 now in full swing, this article presents a review of the latest developments in outsourcing services, new facilities, and M&A activity thus far this year.

Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, or CTX, is a metabolic disorder caused by a gene mutation that results in a deficiency of an important enzyme in the ability of the human body to break down fats.

Seladelpar, which is marketed in the US as Livdelzi, was recommended for an orphan drug designation by CHMP in December 2024.