Manufacturing

Panelists at INTERPHEX 2026 talked about the move to hybrid modeling for process development and the barriers to the adoption of artificial intelligence in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Winners in 8 categories were announced at ISPE’s Europe Annual Conference.

Ranjit Deshmukh, Principal, BiologixCMC, discusses how contract manufacturers can optimize their processes and plan for the future by optimizing facility design.

Rohan Kumar, laboratory analyst at CS Analytical, discusses how sustainability in pharmaceutical packaging can be improved.

This week, PharmTech discussed the use of AI in real-time monitoring, a strategic collaboration in radiopharmaceutical development, and navigating regulatory hurdles.

CPHI Americas 2026 tackles pharma's pressing challenges such as: regulatory shifts, AI in drug discovery, biologics innovation, and supply chain resilience.

Interpack 2026 previews filling, labeling, and packaging equipment from Uhlmann Group, groninger, and HERMA designed for pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Webinar Date/Time: Thu, May 14, 2026 2:00 PM EDT

Richard Jaenisch and Christopher Cole discuss AI in pharma manufacturing, covering learning steps, output evaluation, hallucinations, and FDA/EMA guiding principles.

This article highlights how quality control microbiology is evolving into a proactive, integrated component of modern contamination control strategies across the biopharmaceutical lifecycle.

Understanding how factors such as excipient choice affect nitrosamine formation is essential to developing safer, lower-risk pharmaceutical formulations.

Malav Parikh, director, Quality Risk Management, Global Quality Compliance and Systems, Takeda, spoke with PharmTech about efforts in anticounterfeiting and the use of predictive modeling to validate transport conditions.

This article details what co-processed excipients are and how they are made.

The industry is seeing a shift toward integrated process intelligence and new regulatory pathways.

Contract development and manufacturing organizations can assist the sponsor company in ensuring sterility assurance in alignment with the EU’s Annex 1 guidelines.

FDA’s Project Optimus shifts oncology dosing from MTD to balancing efficacy and safety via metrics like Net Treatment Benefit to pick doses.

This article explores key engineering strategies that support this transformation, including hybrid reactor design, clean-in-place optimization, automation architecture, and modular scalability.

Malav Parikh, director, Quality Risk Management, Global Quality Compliance and Systems, Takeda, spoke with PharmTech about the technologies being used to fight counterfeiting and how predictive modeling can be used to validate transport conditions.

Olon is expanding global biologics and high-potency manufacturing capacity across four countries, with major ADC chain investments completing in 2026.

Industry experts explain how incorporating sustainability into the early development phase creates greener pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Developments across the sector highlight a period of rapid acceleration and structural modernization.

The author discusses analytical techniques for cleaning and disinfection, clean room operation, packaging component preparation, water-for-injection production, sterile product preparation, and aseptic filling, stoppering, and sealing.

Sartorius' new engineered host cell line triples productivity and doubles expression titers while maintaining long-term genetic stability.

Trust-based CDMO partnerships are becoming essential to accelerate injectable drug development, manage risk, and ensure resilient biopharma supply.