cGMP Compliance: Rules to safeguarding patient well-being
cGMP, which means ‘current Good Manufacturing Practice’, is a key component of the pharmaceutical industry and outlines the requirements necessary for ensuring the quality of drugs and active ingredients. For pharma and biotech companies,...
U.S. Biomedical Innovation needs the Human Touch
Never has the spotlight shone brighter on the pharmaceutical industry. With the coronavirus continuing to claim lives across America, the stakes are high for companies developing drugs that effectively treat its symptoms or, better...
Future oriented pharmaceutical processes – a key to success
An increase in requirements from regulatory agencies around the world, combined with a growing demand for drugs in prefilled injections systems – a trend that industry experts have projected will continue – has led...
Flexible production: meeting the growing demands of the biotechnology sector
Vaccines for human viral diseases are among the most successful inventions in medical history: smallpox was declared extinguished in 1980, and poliomyelitis is nearing global eradication. New vaccines employing biotech innovations are changing the...
Creating your Secondary Packaging Strategy
When to Start Creating Your Secondary Packaging Strategy
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies with a drug product in clinical development are usually focused on a quick commercial launch. Secondary packaging aspects are often less considered. Correlations...
Pharma 4.0 – Will it be a reality in post COVID world?
Pharma is at the cusp of third industrial revolution. The first occurred in the late 18th century with the move from agrarian and handicraft-based societies to machine manufacturing. The second occurred in the early...
Exploring the safest ways to share data in healthcare and life sciences
Over the past decade there has been significant hype surrounding blockchain – particularly in the financial services sector and around its role in cryptocurrencies. We are now seeing the conversation progress as new applications...
Rethinking Travel as Part of a Good Patient-Centric Clinical Trial
The landscape for clinical trials has seemingly been turned upside down with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is one factor that has remained crucial, and that is “patient centricity.” This term-...
COVID-19 vaccine: key components are vital to a rapid response
As biopharmaceutical companies focus tirelessly on developing a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus, they are expected to both rapidly develop vaccines and then scale up into mass production. In order to achieve to these...
Authenticating COVID-19 Vaccines will be just as important as the Vaccine itself
Treatments for diseases of all types are important. Treatments for a disease that is central to a global pandemic are beyond important. We are finally seeing major progress for vaccines to prevent the spread...