Outsourcing

Agnes Shanley is senior editor of Pharmaceutical Technology.

Articles

Andrea Zobel, senior director of product management, clinical trial supply, and logistics at PAREXEL International, examines key issues and questions that sponsors and contract partners must address.

Preparing an Approach to Cold Chain for Cell- and Tissue-Based Therapies

Staffan Widengren is director of corporate projects at Recipharm and program manager for the Recipharm global serialization project. He has been working as quality director and general manager within the Recipharm Group since 2002.

Many pharmaceutical manufacturers were late in involving contract partners in serialization efforts. Are you ready, and are you working with the right partner?

Serialization: The Final Countdown

Haris Kamal is senior vice-president of Verify Brand.

As the date for implementation of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act approaches, bio/pharma companies and contractors should focus on key areas.

Serialization Preparation Prompts Data and Business Questions

Vetter expanded visual inspection facilities and controlled-temperature storage at its Ravensburg Vetter West facility in Germany.

Vetter Starts Operations in Its Center for Visual Inspection and Logistics

The company has manufactured double-digit number of batches on the new filling line, for use in early-stage clinical trials.

Vetter Begins Manufacturing on Clinical Syringe Filling Line

The company expanded its commercial packaging facility in response to a growing demand for pediatric drugs.

Almac Expands Commercial Packaging Facility

Eric Langer has over 25 years experience in biotechnology and life sciences strategic marketing management, market research, and publishing. He has held senior management and marketing positions at biopharmaceutical supply companies. He has published and authored many books and reports on topics in Biotechnology, Large-scale BioManufacturing, and bioscience commercialization and communication. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University marketing management, biotech marketing, services marketing, and marketing in a regulated environment. In 1989 he co-founded BioPlan Associates, Inc. to provide market analysis, and strategy to biotech and healthcare organizations.

This key bioprocessing segment is expecting continued growth

Fill/Finish Outsourcing

Now past the “wait-and-see” standoff, most pharmaceutical companies and their contract partners are considering long-term requirements, including distributors’ needs.

Real-World Serialization

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

Recipharm Expands Serialization Capabilities

Sponsors and contract partners alike should not assume that upcoming US federal deadlines will be as elastic as California’s were.

Contract Packaging, Logistics, and Distribution