Manufacturing

GE further ramps up its cellular and gene therapy offerings with its acquisition of Biosafe, a cell processing solutions company.

The company will invest €100 million in the expansion of its Athlone facility.

Novo Nordisk broke ground on an expanded production plant for insulin in Kalundborg, Denmark.

Teligent is expanding its manufacturing and R&D complex in New Jersey.

A study shows high levels of ADAs to infliximab at the beginning of treatment were associated with a poor response later on.

Integrating quality and compliance with technology transfer and careful project management are key in starting up a facility and launching a biologic drug.

Innovations protect product quality, improve productivity, enhance sustainability, and simplify usage for patients and caregivers.

Designing systems using the principles of good documentation practice, including validated audit trails, is a key piece of a manufacturing data integrity program.

Early planning for the integration of clean-in-place systems for equipment cleaning is key.

CPhI Pharma Awards seek nominations for excellence in development and manufacturing.

Aseptic spray drying provides an alternative to lyophilization as an enabling stabilization technology for parenteral biologic formulations.

China and India are also increasing inspections and becoming more exigent about data integrity and cGMPs.

Data integrity and cGMP issues demand closer scrutiny of suppliers. Bribery and corruption may become the next supply chain flashpoint.

The company expanded its services to include oligonucleotide API development and manufacturing and received approval for its Caponago manufacturing facility.

The SmartPak II monitoring system from Cryoport provides information throughout the logistics process.

A RoTab tablet press can product up to 42,000 tablets per hour for Juniper Pharma Services.

Recipharm adds hardware, software, and cloud services for serialization compliance processes.

MilliporeSigma and the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul, South Korea aim to develop more robust, scalable vaccine manufacturing processes.

Studying broadly neutralizing antibodies in infants may lead to new pathways in HIV vaccine development.

The Pharmacopoeial Discussion Group approved monographs and plans to harmonize several others.

The agency cited the company for sterile manufacturing violations.

A research team associated with Dr. Carl June announces it has discovered a way to engineer a patient’s own immune cells to recognize cancer-specific glycoantigens on tumor cells.

Pfizer broke ground at its Andover, Massachusetts campus on a clinical manufacturing facility for complex biologics and vaccines.

Computerized systems can solve some of the data integrity problems with conventional paper-based systems.

Results of a Phase II clinical trial reveal that stem-cell transplantation treatment following complete immune system destruction increases the duration of long-term remission in patients with multiple sclerosis.

Alvotech prepares for commercial biosimilar production in new facility with single-use bioreactors in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Brammer Bio establishes late-phase development and commercial manufacturing facility for advanced cell and gene therapies in Lexington, MA.

The inactivated vaccine, manufactured with a GE FlexFactory system, could be associated with fewer adverse reactions than the live vaccine option.

Pharmaceutical Technology sat down with Charles N. Kettler, PhD, director of Natoli Scientific, to discuss the Natoli Institute for Industrial Pharmacy at Long Island University.

Customized puresu single-use fluid path assemblies from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group incorporate tubing and BioPure components and are supplied ready to use.