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Sartorius Stedim's New Testing Services to Focus on mAbs and Biosimilars
May 5th 2017Operated by BioOutsource, Sartorius’ subsidiary, the Glasgow, UK-based service center will offer physicochemical properties and structural attributes testing and allow clients to perform structural and functional analyses in parallel.
Avid Bioservices Adds Single-Use Bioreactors to Expand Manufacturing in California
May 1st 2017Avid, a wholly owned subsidiary of Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, will upgrade its Myford, California clinical and commercial manufacturing facility with multiple Mobius 2000-L single-use bioreactors from MilliporeSigma, the companies announced on May 1, 2017.
EMA and EU Member States Begin Brexit Discussions
April 28th 2017On April 28, 2017, the European Medicines Agency announced that it met with members of the heads of the National Competent Authorities (NCAs) of the member states of the European Union to discuss the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU (Brexit) and how the agency and the member states will handle the evaluation and monitoring of drugs going forward.
Pharma Execs Compose Open Letter on EMA Relocation
April 27th 2017On April 24, 2017, the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) and a group of executives from several big pharma companies composed an open letter to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) regarding its relocation.
NIH Study Shows Antidepressants May Enhance Drug Delivery to Brain
April 27th 2017A new study from the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that pairing the antidepressant amitriptyline with drugs designed to treat central nervous system diseases, enhances drug delivery to the brain by inhibiting the blood-brain barrier in rats. The blood-brain barrier serves as a natural, protective boundary, preventing most drugs from entering the brain. The research, performed in rats, appeared online April 27, 2017 in the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism.