Authors




Ecolab

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Ecolab Continues Mission to Protect What's Vital With Deep Investment in Life Sciences

Ecolab is looking to the future with new opportunities to partner with Pharma for critical solutions to support drug development and manufacturing.


Dethardt Müller

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Trends in Single-Use Biomanufacturing

Single-use technologies have gained broad acceptance in biomanufacturing within the past few years, supporting flexible and cost-effective clinical production.


James Wright

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Outsourced Manufacturing Operations

Manufacturers are facing ever-increasing competition while end users are expecting better value and efficacy. The authors discuss these challenges and offer practical solutions.


Stephen Kemp

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What's on the Box?

Counterfeiting continues to be a huge challenge affecting both branded and generic products, which, although a worldwide issue, is especially prominent in developing countries.


Oriol Prat

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Challenges In The Changing Outsourcing Landscape

Oriol Prat, Marketing Manager, and Marga Viñes Senior Product Manager, from Grifols give us a quick rundown of how business is changing and what challenges the company faces.


Kaspar van den Dries

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Past, Present and Future of Softgel Technologies

Softgels are now being recognised as one of the preferred dosage forms for the treatment of pain, eye conditions, cough and cold, as well as allergy.


Oskar Gold

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Insourcing vs Outsourcing: Choosing the Right Strategy

The article reviews strategies for firms with or without existing in-house capacities and the pros and cons for outsourcing bio/pharmaceutical development and manufacturing.


Sergio Guazzotti

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The Use Of UHPLC In Post-Drug Development

UHPLC offers increased performance compared with HPLC, including shorter analysis times and increased sensitivity.


Balkrishen Bhat

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Perspectives in MicroRNA Therapeutics

The authors provide further insight into microRNA biology, and the simplicity of anti-miR oligonucleotide drug delivery.


Lisa Joslin

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Quality by Design: A CMO's Perspective on Gaining Knowledge Faster and Better

Traditional project decision-making is compared with a QbD approach.


Christian Hemming

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Checklist for Computer Software Validation

Non-compliance issues show that users find dealing with computer systems challenging.


Stefan Schlack

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Single-Use: Game-Changing Technology for the Biopharmaceutical Industry

The success of new biopharmaceutical drugs also relies on innovative solutions such as single-use technologies that suppliers have to offer to the pharmaceutical industry.


David Edwards

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Improving R&D with API microdosing

Direct dosing APIs during R&D studies can reduce the overall testing time of a drug candidate by allowing for a greater throughput of compounds through the R&D department.


Friedrich Haefele

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Maturing Aseptic Technologies Create More Flexible Facilities

Innovative therapeutic approaches beyond mAbs will require new methods for future facility construction.


Michael Rooney

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EU Market Challenges

Although the European market is approximately 50% smaller than the US in terms of landmass, the population of Europe is approximately 50% larger and this presents a huge market opportunity.


Aaron Davidson

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Offering a Pharma View of Social Media

Why social media presents unique challenges and opportunities for pharmaceutical companies.


Chris Kilbee

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Technology and QbD Drive Pharma Development

Quality by design, process analytical technology, and high throughput screening have helped drive progress in pharmaceutical development.


Chris Burgess

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Data Governance, Data Integrity, and Data Quality: What’s the Connection?

Data governance, data integrity, and data quality are all widely used terms, but what do they actually mean and how are they connected?


Tim Clarke

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The Relationship Between Packaging And The Patient

In light of the challenges facing the pharma industry, such as changing patient demands and changing demographics, the relationship between the packaging, the consumer and the product is being completely reconsidered.


Paul Welitzkin

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Roche Engineer wins iPad at INTERPHEX

Roche Engineer wins iPad at INTERPHEX



Guy Villax

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Guest Viewpoint: A Case for an FDA Dean's List

Quality is a matter of culture more than metrics. In this opinion article, the author presents arguments for an FDA Dean's List as a means to nurture a quality culture within the industry.


Uwe Gottschalk

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The Future of Downstream Processing

The author reviews the state of downstream processing and considers potential solutions, including the streamlining of full processes and borrowed technologies.



Adeline Siew

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Better Comms Means a Fitter Future for Pharma, Part 2: Realizing the Benefits of Unified Communications

In Part 1 of this blog, Richard Freeman looked at some of the challenges faced by pharma firms today as a result of growing competition, regulation and globalization, and argued that more effective communication and collaboration was key to their continued success.


Michael D. Jones

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Impurity Profiling Using Convergence Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry

The authors describe the use of convergence chromatography combined with mass spectrometry for impurity profiling.


Stephen Tindal

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Bridging the Gap from Molecule to Drug

Formulation expertise can smooth the transition of a prospective therapy from medicinal chemistry to drug dosage form.


Martin Koeberle

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QbD: Improving Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing Workflows to Deliver Better Patient Outcomes

Implementing quality by design in product design and formulation and manufacturing workflows can help improve efficiency and shorten development times.