Pharmaceutical Technology-09-02-2019

Government statistics show that pharma can be an illustrious career for graduates, which must be taken advantage of by industry to avoid skills shortages.

As a potential ‘no-deal’ Brexit looms, pharma companies and industry bodies are preparing for the worst-case scenario but hoping that the UK won’t end up with a disorderly exit from the EU.

EMA is seeking ways to improve the effectiveness of its PRIME scheme, so that scientific innovations and new technologies more readily lead to novel medicines.

Digital tools, such as building information modeling (BIM) software, improves efficiency for optimizing pharmaceutical facility design.

At-line NIR measurements can replace a laboratory HPLC measurement for API content in oral solid-dosage drug manufacturing.

In this interview, the main uses and benefits of NIR spectroscopy in tableting are discussed.

As regulatory guidance has evolved, changes in CCIT testing have also become apparent. In this article, possible CCIT strategy approaches are outlined.

Early adopters of continuous manufacturing approaches shared their plans and some of their experiences at the 11th annual Charles Jarowski Symposium in Industrial Pharmacy.

Charles Ross & Son Company made improvements to the dual-post hydraulic lift and seal design of its 1500-gallon Multi-Shaft Mixer Model PVM-1500.

The SLA5800 Series Biotech and the SLAMf Series Biotech are two new mass flow controller (MFC) models from Brooks Instrument designed specifically for improved gas flow control in biotechnology applications.

The Viscometer CL-10DV for inclusion from Dynatrol consists of a viscometer, a viscosity probe, and a digital converter series that operate in several conditions for a variety of applications, including pharmaceutical chemicals, oil mixtures, and propylene glycol-based fluids, etc.

General Purpose Pro Centrifuge Series centrifuges by Thermo Fisher Scientific are designed to deliver a regulatory-compliant benchtop separation solution to meet the application needs of scientists working in biopharmaceuticals, academic research, and clinical diagnostic applications.

Industry and regulators seek global system that reduces regional differences.

Providing regulators with a holistic approach to addressing deficiencies is the best response to an inspection, says Siegfried Schmitt, PhD, vice-president, technical, Parexel Consulting.

The authors provide an introduction to aluminum adsorbed vaccines, review studies of antigen stability, and propose test methods for the analysis of aluminum vaccine release and stability analysis.

The editors welcome technical article contributions from the bio/pharma industry.

Innovation in manufacturing technologies must occur to ensure the availability of gene therapies and cell therapies.

Research compared the properties of corticosteroids processed by wet and dry milling for use in inhalation formulations.

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Front-end focus and new approaches are speeding scale-up and reducing costs, while scale-down and scale-out become increasingly important.

The evolution of cell-culture technology is driving the need for improvements in modeling solutions.