Top 10 Feature Articles of 2024

Pharmaceutical Technology® and Pharmaceutical Technology® Europe publishes independent, science-based articles and peer-reviewed papers from bio/pharmaceutical professionals working in the development and manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. In 2024, Pharmaceutical Technology® and Pharmaceutical Technology® Europe, via print issues, ebooks, and our website, PharmTech.com, published articles on topics ranging from development challenges, to manufacturing best practices, quality considerations, analytical approaches, and more.

The following are our picks for the ‘best of’ technical and peer-reviewed articles published in 2024, in no particular order:

• Legal and Regulatory Perspectives on 3D Printing: Drug Compounding Applications
  This paper explores the legal and regulatory framework around 3D drug printing, particularly for personalized medicine, considering regulatory compliance, business concerns, and intellectual property rights.
  https://www.pharmtech.com/view/legal-and-regulatory-perspectives-on-3d-printing-drug-compounding-applications
• The Quest for Quality: Challenges and Strategies in Raw Material Selection for Biopharmaceuticals
  Biopharmaceutical production faces the challenge of ensuring the quality of raw materials due to a lack of specific guidelines. By implementing effective risk assessment strategies and working with reliable, selected solution providers, biopharmaceutical manufacturers can minimize these challenges and improve product quality.
  https://www.pharmtech.com/view/the-quest-for-quality-challenges-and-strategies-in-raw-material-selection-for-biopharmaceuticals
• Data Governance, Data Integrity, and Data Quality: What’s the Connection?
  Nomenclature is important. Data governance, data integrity, and data quality are all widely used terms, but what do they actually mean and how are they connected? The purpose of this article is to provide a structured model for these terms with their definitions and their relationships in the context of analysis and testing within a pharmaceutical quality system.
  https://www.pharmtech.com/view/data-governance-data-integrity-data-quality-whats-connection
• Application of Validation Principles to the Training Quality System: Part 9, Quality Risk Management Hazard Identification
  Pharmaceutical training programs are enhanced by integrating ICH quality risk management considerations.
  https://www.pharmtech.com/view/application-validation-principles-training-quality-system-part-9-quality-risk-management-hazard-identification
• Accelerating Discovery and Development with Advances in High-Throughput Screening
  Automation, miniaturization, and new software algorithms are improving throughput and accuracy.
  https://www.pharmtech.com/view/accelerating-discovery-and-development-with-advances-in-high-throughput-screening
• Validating Pharma 4.0 for Smart Manufacturing
  The drug manufacturing ecosystem Pharma 4.0, a term coined in 2017 by the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineers, promises a revolution across drug discovery, manufacturing, and supply chain logistics, ensuring drugs are delivered precisely when needed, and improving overall patient care.
  https://www.pharmtech.com/view/validating-pharma-4-0-smart-manufacturing
• Understanding the Value of Excipient Grade
  Greater collaboration and understanding are needed to ensure the correct grade of excipient is used in drug products.
  https://www.pharmtech.com/view/understanding-the-value-of-excipient-grade
• Determining Low PPB Levels of Nitrite in Polymeric Excipients
  In this paper, the authors introduce a method that combines ion exchange chromatography with an easier-to-perform, simpler one-step post-column derivatization that is selective to nitrite and visible spectrophotometric detection to allow high sample loading volumes without affecting resolution.
  https://www.pharmtech.com/view/determining-low-ppb-levels-of-nitrite-in-polymeric-excipients
• Increasing mRNA Product Stability with Lyophilization
  Developing freeze-drying processes requires patience and deep product and process understanding.
  https://www.pharmtech.com/view/increasing-mrna-product-stability-with-lyophilization
• Biologics on Target for the Future
  A greater understanding of molecular and cellular biology and technological advancements are revolutionizing the field of biologics.
  https://www.pharmtech.com/view/biologics-on-target-for-the-future

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