Drug Development

Adeline Siew is editor for Pharmaceutical Technology Europe. She is also science editor for Pharmaceutical Technology.

Articles

Biotech boom, niche markets, smaller batch sizes and high potency manufacturing are among the key trends shaping the pharmaceutical industry of the 21st century, according to Christian Treitel from Bosch Packaging Technology.

Pharma Trends—From Biologics for Niche Patient Populations to Isolators and Containment for HPAPI Manufacturing

South Africa’s Biovac Institute, which develops and produces vaccines for the country, launched a public-private partnership with Pfizer to enable local manufacturing of Prevenar 13, a vaccine against pneumonia-causing bacteria.

Pfizer Transfers Vaccine Technology for Production in South Africa

Randi Hernandez was science editor at Pharmaceutical Technology from September 2014 to May 2017.

At least 70 patents for Humira will protect the legacy product from biosimilar competitors, according to information presented during the company’s third-quarter earnings call.

AbbVie CEO: Humira Biosimilars Won’t Reach Market Until at Least 2022

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.

Better process development is creating industry benchmarks for bioprocessing.

CMOs Continue to Improve Overall Biomanufacturing Performance

The new Syrina 2.25 is a compact auto-injector that uses the standard 2.25 mL prefilled syringe, based on Bespak’s proprietary VapourSoft technology.

Bespak Launches New Auto-Injector at PDA Europe

The Transform hydrate-able film from Lubrizol LifeSciences is compatible with a range of APIs.

Lubrizol Introduces Topical Film

The determination of topical bioequivalence requires a multi-faceted approach, tailored specifically to the generic-drug formulation.

Demonstrating Therapeutic Equivalence for Generic Topical Products

Sartorius Stedim Biotech’s Flexsafe 3D Pre-designed Solutions meet ASTM D4169 Standard Practice requirements and are designed for storage and shipping of biopharmaceutical fluids.

Single-Use Shipping Solutions

ProBioGen plans to develop and scale-up production of a biosimilar to the mAb cancer drug trastuzumab and will transfer the commercial manufacturing process to Indonesia’s government-owned Bio Farma.

ProBioGen and Bio Farma Plan Indonesian Production of Trastuzumab

USP responds to FDA's draft guidance on the naming of biological products.

Formulation and Drug Delivery