Specialty Dosage Drugs

Manufacturing Drug–Device Combination Products

September 03, 2020

A device manufacturing process must be carefully designed in the early stages of development to ensure success in commercial manufacturing.

Inovio to Scale-Up Manufacture of Intradermal Delivery Device for its COVID-19 Vaccine

June 24, 2020

Inovio received a $71-million contract from the US Department of Defense to scale up manufacture of its Cellectra smart device to deliver its DNA vaccine.

Pharma Packaging Focus on Tubes

June 17, 2020

Equipment and Processing Report

New options for pharmaceutical tubes enhance functionality, sustainability, and brand identity.

Evonik Commissions US Facility for Bioresorbable Polymers and adds CMO Services

May 19, 2020

Evonik opened a new facility for GMP manufacturing of bioresorbable polymers and excipients for pharmaceutical and medical applications in Birmingham, AL.

Manufacturing Microneedle Array Patches for Vaccine Delivery

May 02, 2020

Equipment and process optimization must be considered for scaling up these developmental technologies to commercial production.

Challenges in Clinical Manufacturing for Topical Drugs

March 02, 2020

Understanding of scale-up parameters and use of process analytical technology are important to meet demand for larger batch sizes.

Primary Packaging for Combination Products

November 20, 2019

Equipment and Processing Report

Trends affecting primary pharmaceutical packaging include the shift to more complex drug-device combination products.

Regulatory, cultural, and technical differences between drug and device development can pose challenges to pharmaceutical combination product development.