Manufacturing

Washed seals save drug makers time and money.

Matthew Lauber, senior director—Cell and Gene Therapy, Consumables & Lab Automation, at Waters Corporation discusses the analytical and downstream purification challenges of oligonucleotides.

Dujuan Lu, PhD, global leader—E&L, SGS Health Sciences, talks about the differences in designing E&L testing for combination products vs. conventional pharmaceuticals.

Dujuan Lu, PhD, global leader—E&L, SGS Health Sciences, recommends some key issues that pharma manufacturers should consider when formulating products that require a medical device.

Pharmaceutical Technology Europe® spoke with Leonardo Vincenzi from CONTINUUS Pharmaceuticals, a US company that specializes in process development, at the inaugural Start-Up Market on the show floor at CPHI Barcelona 2023.

Emergence of advanced manufacturing technology to ensure quality of biopharmaceutical drugs combined with efforts to identify a regulatory pathway indicate that a distributed manufacturing model is within reach.

Interest grows in AI, digitalization, robotics, and sustainability.

Monoclonal antibody and viral vector manufacture share similarities, but vector scale up faces unique challenges.

Using image analysis to characterize complex finished products is crucial in particle analysis.

Hollie Barton, senior director, Chromatographic Services, for the PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific, reviews the company’s latest moves in targeting automation.

A look at using best practice tech transfer methods for CGTs to increase process and analytics robustness while being scalable.

The new centralized hub will provide advanced testing of nucleic acids, which is expected to simplify mRNA substance testing.

As part of a $30 million investment, Aragen is setting up a new biologics manufacturing facility in Bangalore, India.

Pharmaceutical Technology Europe® spoke with Carlos Rial Calvo from FABRX, a pharmaceutical 3D printing company, at the inaugural Start-Up Market on the show floor at CPHI Barcelona 2023.

Sara Fathollahi, PhD, product application specialist at DFE Pharma, makes the case of how excipient suppliers can support the transition from batch to continuous manufacturing.

Sara Fathollahi, PhD, product application specialist at DFE Pharma, discusses a major challenge in the adoption of continuous manufacturing.

As new analytical technologies advance, insight into the twin-screw granulation process is growing.

Sara Fathollahi, PhD, product application specialist at DFE Pharma, points out important redesign concepts critical to adapting continuous manufacturing.

The acquisition of Qualicaps reflects a strategic investment that aims to strengthen Roquette’s global standing in oral dosage solutions.

SCHOTT now offers ViewCell, a new component meant to add flexibility to biopharmaceutical process control.

Spark Therapeutics and SpliceBio have formed a collaboration to develop a gene therapy that can treat an inherited retinal disease.

The agency is warning patients and healthcare providers about pre-filled pens falsely labeled as Ozempic.

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has partnered with Forge Biologics, which will manufacture AAVs to help accelerate gene therapy programs in California.

Wheeler plans to use the facility to bolster its mission in helping fledgling biotech innovators and startups accelerate their development at an equitable price.

Chris Spivey, editorial director, hosts a wide ranging discussion on the COVID-19 pandemic response, future government communications, and healthcare funding for mRNA with experts Dr. Kate Broderick, Chief Innovation Officer, Maravai LifeSciences and Dr. Tom Madden, President & CEO at Acuitas Therapeutics. Highlights include supply chain modalities, ensuring a fully trained manufacturing workforce, combining delivery with gene editing innovations, epigenetic approaches to modulate gene expression moving toward the clinic. We conclude with the huge potential for RNA expression of monoclonal antibodies and protein replacement applications.

Sander Van Gessel, MEng, Business Unit Director, DFE Pharma, discusses the important components of nitrosamine impurities from a manufacturing point of view as a part of his session, "Reducing Nitrosamines Without the Use of Scavengers: The Critical Role of Excipients - An Excipient Manufacturer's View."

Sander Van Gessel, MEng, Business Unit Director, DFE Pharma, discusses the recent findings of nitrosamine impurities in human drugs as a part of his session, "Reducing Nitrosamines Without the Use of Scavengers: The Critical Role of Excipients - An Excipient Manufacturer's View."

All members of the pharmaceutical supply chain must implement reliable sourcing and manufacturing strategies that balance quality and costs to ensure the uninterrupted supply of high-quality medicines to patients worldwide.

A new generation of interactive formulation development platforms can leave trial and error in the formulation process in the past.

Sterling is known as a global contract development and manufacturing organization, and their network spreads to a manufacturing site in Cramlington, United Kingdom, a recently GMP-licensed dedicated bioconjugation facility in Deeside, and a 111-acre site in Ringaskiddy, Ireland.