Drug Development

Claudia Roth, President of Vetter Development Service USA, discusses trends in single-use technology for clinical manufacturing.

Falsified Medicines Directive requires imported APIs to have written confirmation of GMP standards.

Contract service providers expand capabilities in API and finished product manufacturing to meet demand for high-potency drugs.

GE Healthcare's partnerships with iBio and Brazil's Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz for a new plant-based multipurpose biopharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturing facility move plant-based protein production to the next level.

The US and EU move forward with measures to fortify the pharmaceutical supply chain.

Cocrystals can enable the formulation of solid dosage drugs, but the FDA's final guidelines have left concerns about how their use could impact development timelines, the drug product manufacturing process, and the intellectual property position of products containing cocrystals.

Eisai has launched a new dry syrup formulation of its Alzheimer's disease treatment Aricept (donepezil hydrochloride) in Japan.

Until recently, glycan analysis has been a slow, labor-intensive process more widely used late in bioprocess development. New high-throughput methods are changing that.

Combination product design takes second prize in the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance Biomedical Engineering contest.

New production capabilities in Normandy, France will include a cleanroom.

Facility will use mammalian cell-culture technology and be ready for operations by 2016.

Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute advance heteorcylic chemistry trhough new reagents and reaction-tracking techniques.

Kurt Nielsen, PhD, chief technology officer and senior vice-president of R&D at Catalent Pharma Solutions, discusses strategies for solubility and bioavailability enhancement of poorly water-soluble drugs.

Company receives notice from FDA for not fully investigating foreign particles in APIs and finished products made from its facility in Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany.

Dynamic testing and advances in shear testing provide better insight into powder physical properties and external variables that affect powder behavior.

Access to extremely low and consistently controlled reaction temperatures can improve product yields and selectivities while also reducing costs.

New platform technologies and polymer chemistries may facilitate self-administration, longer-term delivery, and targeted delivery of parenteral drugs.

Applications of ZFN technology in biopharmaceutical cell-line engineering.

While there are those who want combination products to be controlled by a centralized pharmaceutical-type approval system, the majority of the medical technology industry wants to retain a decentralized device-focused approach.

The rejection by India's Supreme Court on Novartis' Glivec/Gleevec (imatinib mesylate) and other recent case law raise important issues on patent strategies for solid forms.

Parenteral drug delivery offers a variety of challenges but also opportunities. The author examines recent developments in nanotechnology-based drug delivery and other advances in injection-based drug delivery.

The authors describe a holistic and integrated approach to focus on the linkage of the prefilled syringe with the four phases of product design, development, operation, and control.

Researchers recently developed a drug-delivery system to mitigate problems associated with jet-injection drug delivery, and also improved on the design and operation of microscale actuators as a possible drug-delivery method.

Because peptoids are relatively easy to synthesize, have tremendous sequence diversity, and are more proteolytically stable than peptides and proteins, they have significant potential for use as APIs, drug-delivery agents, and in numerous biomedical applications.

Oval Medical Technologies, an autoinjector company based in Cambridge, UK, reported that a variety of highly viscous solutions have been successfully delivered through a 25-gauge thin-wall needle, in less than 7 seconds, using its innovative autoinjector. The technology provides solutions to problems in the industry for drug containment and the end user.