PTSM: Pharmaceutical Technology Sourcing and Management-06-04-2014

An established drug-manufacturing base with quality and safety issues, and patent protection and price capping concerns complicate efforts to do business in India.

Why can't the CMO industry break through to manufacture a greater share of drugs?

A drug sponsor?s responsibility does not end when a task is outsourced.

Industry players and FDA evaluation possible quality metrics to improve manufacturing efficiencies and avoid drug shortages.

The perceived risks associated with cocrystals may be slowing progress of their industrial application.

DCAT's Sharp Sourcing 2014 educational program offers pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies a forum to gain best practice insights in sourcing and procurement.

John Hopkins and UCSF-Stanford join FDA?s Centers of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation.

Appropriate process design and engineering are critical for the production of small-molecule and biologic HPAPIs.

The CPhI report warns that Turkey's dynamism is being restricted by the current government reimbursement model.

ASCO meeting attendees give artistic interpretations of cancer journeys in the form of public Hope Murals.

The 11th Annual Global Biomanufacturing Study includes a global analysis of 238 biomanufacturers and 178 suppliers in 31 countries.

The Bulk Pharmaceuticals Task Force asks FDA to respond to concerns about reduction in API facility compliance inspections.

EquipNet announced its 15th year of supplying asset management services.

DPx Holdings B.V. donated $110,000 to more than 20 different hospitals and organizations across the globe.

The EDQM grants Gnosis a CEP for teicoplanin, a true fermentation glycopeptide antibiotic produced by actinoplanes teichomyceticus strains.

Pfizer and the Avon Foundation for Women Breast Cancer Grants Program will award up to $1 million in grants to advocacy, academic, and other not-for-profit organizations.

Avantor Performance Materials appoints Michael Stubblefield as CEO.

GSK reports 5-year vaccine price freeze for countries graduating from GAVI Alliance.

Brookfield continues to supply viscometers and rheometers for laboratory and on-line process control applications.

SAFC offers commercial and pilot-scale continuous-flow capacity.

SGS makes two senior appointments at its new GMP/GLP laboratory in Carson, California.

EMA and ECHA sign agreement to share information and work together on risk assessments.

New manufacturing capacity at the Le Mans, France facility is being used to scale up antibody drug conjugates.