Pharmaceutical Technology Editors

The divestiture of the European generic-drug business of Sanofi-Zentiva-to Advent International has been completed.

Mettler Toledo’s XSR Analytical Balances help simplify laboratory workflows and enable convenient and ergonomic balance operation while delivering high-weighing accuracy.

Romaco Siebler and Huhtamaki will premiere a push-through strip packaging for pharmaceuticals at CPhI WorldWide 2018.

As Europe and the United Kingdom are facing the ever-expanding shadow of Brexit, a keynote session taking place at CPhI Worldwide in Madrid will look to assess the wider implications of the UK’s exit from the European Union on the Pharma sector.

This pharma insight briefing from Agilent Technologies will cover the application of Raman and infrared spectroscopy for pharmaceutical quality control (QC).

The companies collaborated to launch a new cell-based profiling service for biochemical assay.

Specialist biopharmaceutical company, Alvotech, has announced receipt of a manufacturing license from the Icelandic Medicines Agency, applying to its biopharmaceutical facility based in Reykjavik, Iceland.

New software tools by Tecan, a provider of automated laboratory instruments and solutions, complement each other to enhance process monitoring of its liquid-handling platforms.

CPhI releases the bio trends portion of its annual report, which predicts an increase in bioconjucation expertise and biopharma productivity over the next five years.

A collaboration using Pall’s bioprocessing technology in G-CON’s PODs enables flexible continuous bioprocessing and viral vector facility solutions.

Vetter chose a winner from four teams that worked for three months to develop ideas for applying digital technology to injectable pharmaceuticals.

The agency sent a warning letter to the Indian company after an inspection found CGMP violations that included a lack of written procedures and analytical testing.

GE Healthcare, Cobra Biologics, and the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) have entered into a collaboration to advance manufacturing of adeno-associated virus vectors for gene therapy.

The company’s biosimiliar to Amgen’s Neulasta (pegfilgrastim) received a positive opinion for marketing authorization from the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP).

The sterile-manufacturing contract development manufacturing organization is approved by FDA for viral vector manufacturing fill/finish processing at its biologics facility in Scotland, UK.

The World Packaging Organization will present a keynote session at CPhI discussing trends affecting pharmaceutical packaging, including user-friendly design.

The European Medicines Agency revised the number of centrally authorized medicines for which there are concerns over Brexit-related supply disruptions.

The company plans to lay off approximately 400 employees to support the restructuring of its R&D organization.

The agency announced that differences in strength expression on product labels of compounders and conventional manufacturers may lead to dosing errors.

The agency has entered into an agreement with the National Academies of Science, Engineering & Medicine and has expanded agreements with the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University Centers for Regulatory Science and Innovation to conduct research on the compounding of drugs.

Nanjing-based PharmaBlock Sciences acquired a GMP-compliant manufacturing facility in Shangyu, China from Porton Pharma Solutions.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recently rejected National Health Service’s funding of Kymriah for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) despite recognizing that the drug has significant clinical benefits.

Finalists for the CPhI 2018 Pharma Awards, taking place on Oct. 9, 2018 in Madrid, have been announced.

Cell-line quality has a significant impact on biologic drug quality; learn more about this and other upstream challenges at the new bioLIVE launching this year adjacent to CPhI Worldwide 2018.

Experts suggest health care providers and policymakers proceed with caution when exposing patients to the digital pill.

The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended 13 new medicines for approval, including three orphan drug candidates.

FDA awarded nearly $3 million in grants for continuous manufacturing and other advanced manufacturing technologies as part of the agency’s efforts to ensure a robust and reliable supply of biological products.

A keynote session at CPhI will discuss how the trend to personalized medicine affects pharmaceutical packaging.

The company will showcase the evolving role of vitamins and lipid APIs in pharmaceutical applications at CPhI Worldwide 2018.

Research by Thermo Fisher Scientific and LumaCyte suggests that LumaCyte's Radiance instrument offers the ability to rapidly analyze viral vaccines to speed development and production and ensure their effectiveness.