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New facility at Gosselies site will host commercial scale pDNA manufacturing as Catalent extends its cell and gene therapy footprint

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Read this new CPHI Trend Report which, via interviews with key industry experts, explores the state of India's API manufacturing issue and how it is being impacted by the country's ambitious healthcare reform programme as well as efforts by the governm...

In the future pharma companies will need to work closer with excipient companies if we are to develop better formulations more quickly

The addition of two new manufacturing trains will support the demand for high-value biopharmaceutical products

Industrial assets purchaser is offering high-capacity production line equipment formerly owned by bankrupt CMO

The expansion will support a 50% increase in production of biotech's COVID-19 vaccine at its manufacturing site

Ahead of the session, How will the New Administration Impact the US Pharma Market? at CPHI Discover on Tuesday 18th May – global pharma’s largest ever virtual gathering – we spoke with one of the speakers, Nielsen Hobbs...

Transaction enables ArchiMed-backed biopharmaceutical services group to establish North American presence and expand activities with complementary services

Ahead of the session, Value Added Excipients to Unlock the Potential of APIs, at CPHI Discover on Thursday 18th May – global pharma’s largest ever virtual gathering – we spoke with one of the speakers, Dr Iain Moor...

Our online pharma event CPHI Discover is almost upon us! While we’ll be delving into the typical themes of ingredients, manufacturing, supply chain logistics and technology, we’re also going to be examining some newer trends which are impac...

The software consulting company claims its software solution has already saved one pharma company €10.5 million

Biotech ties up deal three days after World Health Organization issued an emergency use listing for the mRNA vaccine

To remain competitive, pharma companies must now collaborate with suppliers on how their packaging processes address sustainability. This recent webinar available on demand provides an overview on the drive for sustainable development and improving the...

How is the pharmaceutical industry tackling the issue of ensuring minority populations are properly represented in clinical trials?

Three additional drug substance manufacturing lines will be added to existing ones at Swiss site and are expected to be operational in early 2022

CPHI asks industry experts at Beximco Pharmaceuticals, Catalent, DIA and Thermo Fisher Scientific to weigh in on the remarkable innovations we have witnessed and what lasting impacts they may have on our industry in a post-pandemic world

Sweeping ban includes APIs, intermediates and prescription and OTC medicines and comes amid tight regulatory requirements and the "high risk nature" of pharma products, e-commerce giant says

The new business alliance will support new product launches for specialty pharmaceutical manufacturers looking to enter the Japanese market

French company is now providing manufacturing capacity to support three different COVID-19 vaccines

CHF 200 million investment will include dedicated line for antibody-drug conjugate payload molecules and is scheduled to start operations in Q3 2023

With CPHI North America fast approaching, we ask Karen Flynn (President, Biologics & Chief Commercial Officer, at Catalent), Hamilton Lenox (Senior Vice President of Business Development, Sales & Marketing, at LGM Pharma), and Mike Kleppinger, Chief Co...

What are the major implications of any drive to reshore US pharmaceutical manufacturing, given that current Asian domination is based on cost savings and capacity? We ask the experts...

Company failed to investigate vaccine drug substance discrepancies thoroughly, says US regulator

2020 will go down in history as a pivotal year for the US pharmaceutical manufacturing sector. Firstly, the emergence of the global coronavirus pandemic provided a seismic shock to the industry and forced major rethinking on several lines. And secondly...

Agency’s safety committee concludes positive benefit-risk profile but orders warning about rare blood clots to be added to shot’s product information

The company will expand multiple facilities in Hyderabad and Bangalore to help reach its target of approximately 700 million doses per year of the COVID-19 vaccine

Ahead of CPHI Discover (17-28 May, 2021) - global pharma's largest ever virtual gathering - we spoke to CPHI Annual Report expert Vicky Xia, China Head at BioPlan Associates on the biologics trends she is seeing emerging in the contract services sp...

Sustainability takes effort, but the benefits of economically viable, environmentally responsible operations are worth it, even for smaller drug companies

The expanded agreement will ensure Rocket Pharma's supply of lentiviral vectors across its pipeline

Extra supply will bring total number of doses scheduled to be shipped to EU this year to 600 million

The expansions will enable the company's local customers to test equipment directly at the manufacturing site

New facility will be research partnering company’s sixth global site and will be dedicated to mammalian biologics

Informa Markets' first in-person trade show of the year welcomes attendees in Tokyo as face-to-face interaction recommences among pharma community

See MTI Bioscience systems in action! MTI Bioscience is excited to demonstrate their Continuous Thermal Sterilizers live on Zoom®. Please attend the following free live events on May 5th and 12th at 11 am EST, hosted by Dr. John Miles, President of...

The antibody-based products will be expressed using Lonza's GS Xceed Gene Expression System

The concept of Green Chemistry first arose as a set of principles to minimize the environmental impact of chemical production but as one of its earliest adopters, the pharmaceutical industry has enjoyed several other benefits

The company will invest €400 million in a new site to enable it to produce vaccines on a massive scale for Asia

The global CMO plans to have a complete, licensed cGMP manufacturing facility online by the end of 2021

The company's custom single run single-use fermenters supplied on fast-track schedule to support flexible manufacturing of plasmid DNA

The smallpox vaccine specialist will manufacture and deliver bulk drug substance of MVA-BN Filo vaccine during the second half of this year

Increased range of sizes and available features, plus new options in ANFD systems and the popular Benchtop Nutsche Filter for scaleup and kilogram level production

Pharmaceuticals discarded in the environment pose a risk to fish and other wildlife, for example by affecting their ability to reproduce, by altering their behaviour in ways jeopardising their survival, or through direct toxic effects. Increased awaren...

The extended collaboration comes after reaching the initial milestone of producing 100 million doses

By integrating its HPAPI capabilities with those at ADC Biotechnologies' Deeside facility, small molecule CDMO will be able to offer the development and manufacturing of toxin linkers

Ploermel and Edinburgh facilities employ around 390 permanent staff and will allow UK CDMO to expand its technology offering

Facility will support UK-based crystal and particle engineering specialist's existing Chinese subsidiary to expand product development services

The US facility in Rockville is expected to accelerate the company’s commercial-scale manufacturing timelines of gavo-cel

The CDMO will provide cell line development, process development, drug substance and drug product manufacturing for Pionyr’s monoclonal antibody candidate

The former Rohner's manufacturing assets will enable omega-3 heavyweight to manufacture difficult, multi-step pharmaceutical intermediates and APIs

Pharma company will provide fill and finish manufacturing capacity at its Barnard Castle facility as early as the beginning of May 2021

Innovation in the design and development of large volume drug delivery devices can solve the challenge of accommodating the increasing trend towards patient self-administration and home care while at the same time ensuring that drugs that require intra...

Some seaborne deliveries are being rerouted or switched to air transportation as efforts to re-float stricken Ever Given container vessel move into fourth day

New site includes warehouse maagement system which packaging firm claims will increase picking accuracy and efficiency

While research and development (R&D) in the pharma sector has traditionally been largely constrained to in-house activity, companies are now much more open to the idea of outsourcing their innovation to remain competitive amid spiralling costs of drug ...

Company will use extension of Schedule I licence to start development of psychedelics-based pipeline to treat mental health disorders

The company will triple its capacity and workforce at its North Carolina site to increase its global capabilities and reach

A quarterly series of blog posts about responsible supply chain management from the PSCI Chair, Manjit Singh

Partnering with one of northern Europe’s oldest academic universities, Lund University in Sweden, Pharmapack has launched this three-part podcast series, delivering the latest insights on medication packaging innovation and the gathering momentum...

The CDMO's Zydis technology will help the Canadian biotech to develop fast-acting, shorter-duration formulations of its potential therapy for treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders

CDMO subsidiary Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies will operate the site which is expected to be operational in 2025

Pharma’s uptake of continuous manufacturing is slowly gaining traction as the technology does hold some key advantages over traditional batch manufacturing, such as the potential to realise cost savings and the promise of lower yield loss.

EU/UK trade deal fell way short of UK’s initial expectations for medicinal products ahead of negotiations, says Peter Gough at NSF International

Multinational makes ‘difficult decision’ to halt presence in Chinese biosimilars market five years after $350 million investment

Despite COVID-related challenges and supply chain issues, the CDMO's $240 million new facility is on target to open next year

AI is helping pharma find the drug candidates with the greatest chance of success, according to experts who say therapeutic efficacy and cost reduction are the key dynamics

The move ensures the service provider has the capacity to meet the needs of an evolving clinical market

US-headquartered company Kindeva seals deal for an R&D facility at Loughborough’s life sciences hub

Excipients are a crucial component of the pharmaceutical product formulation, and the industry is constantly having to adapt to changes in demand and technology innovations

Adaptive clinical trials have accelerated COVID-19 vaccine development and could make drug R&D more efficient but running such studies is complex and challenging and sponsors need to prepare, say experts

Regulators stress temporary halt is precautionary measure and that there is currently no evidence linking the shot to adverse events

Tremendous growth opportunities exist for auto-injectors as their value is increasingly being recognised across several therapy areas, experts have told a recent CPHI webinar, sponsored by Stevanato Group.

What are APIs? As the name suggests, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) are the heart of any dosage form, whether they are oral, injectable or inhaled, and are absolutely essential to the development of a formulated product.

The purchase will allow the company to add nine new customers to its growing CDMO business and 27 manufacturing suites

In this special roundtable podcast exploring potential opportunities in a post-vaccinated world, we are joined by a panel of three world class experts – Bikash Chatterjee, CEO of Pharmatech Associates; Parrish Galliher, Managing Director, Bi...

Biologic products advance through clinical development with a higher success rate than traditional small molecules, this new analysis of clinical development success from Informa Pharma Intelligence, the Biotechnology Industry Organization and the...

The enhancements will include installing the lever-operated multi-dose inhaler device used in Hikma’s generic Advair product, which the FDA recently approved

During the next 12 months, demand for early-stage contract projects could quickly exceed supply

PsiVac has generated compelling efficacy data in killing a broad range of tumour cells, including head and neck, bladder, liver, pancreatic and ovarian

In this podcast interview with Fabien Du Fraisse and Deepu Joseph at Quanticate, we delve into the trend of decentralising clinical trials 

Funding from BARDA helps the company to adapt and make available a number of existing manufacturing facilities for the production of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and medicines

The addition further strengthens WuXi's cell and gene therapy service offerings for global customers and will be Wuxi ATU's first facility in Europe

The company wins awards in all six categories — capabilities, compatibility, expertise, quality, reliability and service

Watch this recent webinar which looks at how pharma is partnering with digital tech companies in order to find market-based solutions to current issues and take advantage of the larger volumes of data now available

This transaction complements Pharmaron’s recent acquisition of Absorption Systems in the US for building an integrated cell and gene therapy services platform

Need clarity on determining your QA from your QbD and your cGMPs? You’re not alone! In our new Pharma Explained series from CPHI, we bring you clear cut definitions from industry experts on a myriad of Pharma Terms, delivered in bitesize video presenta...

The ongoing global pandemic and growing complexity mean digital technologies are fast becoming the only effective way of managing drug supply chains and logistics

The company acquires a pDNA CDMO and launches pDNA development and manufacturing services at its Rockville, Maryland facility

Need clarity on determining your QA from your QbD and your cGMPs? You’re not alone! In our new Pharma Explained series from CPHI, we bring you clear cut definitions from industry experts on a myriad of Pharma Terms, delivered in bitesize video present...

The new site will be equipped to enable quick ramp-up of capacity for clinical and commercial cell therapy products

Digitalisation is finally coming to pharma with more drug manufacturers using industry 4.0 tech to monitor, model and control production processes.

The CDMO will manufacture recently FDA-approved Lupkynis as a softgel dosage form at its St Petersburg, Florida, facility

The manufacturing agreement includes process development for scale-up and technology transfer with the goal of supplying Phase II and III clinical studies

Biotech will manufacture shots with partner SII for equitable vaccine distribution programme, COVAX

API manufacturer says acquisition is next step of investment strategy to closely align API supply to customer needs in an unpredictable world

Which were the products that drew the most interest in the CPHI directory in January? We analyse search data from the CPHI directory…

CDMO says increased customer demand for clinical API supply has outstripped its cGMP manufacturing capacity

Online analysis finds vaccine misinformation continues to thrive despite recent approvals and inoculation programmes

The CDMO doubles its capacity to take on new development projects

In this episode we delve into the issue of Pharma 4.0 and what steps the industry is taking to transition pharma manufacturing to a much more digitalised model.

The expanded and refined first-in-human services have been designed to meet the early-stage molecule development of small biopharma players

The company seeks to actively accelerate US manufacturing for medicines at risk of shortage, including those for COVID-19 pandemic response

The company's additional production capacities are scheduled to go into operation in May 2021

Firms plan to invest in capacity expansion at the CDMO’s manufacturing site in Dessau to boost European domestic vaccine supply

Partnering with one of northern Europe’s oldest universities, Lund University in Sweden, Pharmapack is launching this three-part podcast series, delivering the latest insights on medication packaging innovation and the gathering momentum towards ...

Need clarity on determining your QA from your QbD and your cGMPs? You’re not alone! In our new Pharma Explained series from CPHI, we bring you clear cut definitions from industry experts on a myriad of Pharma Terms, delivered in bitesize video presenta...

The acquisition will extend the 12-month drug development timeline savings already delivered by Quotient’s flagship platform Translational Pharmaceutics

The agreement allows the CDMO to "stay on the forefront of emerging indications and cell types"

The CRO predicts investment communities will come to the rescue of small and medium companies looking to advance their candidates

The CMO has designed the new service to alleviate manufacturing challenges associated with positive controls and nucleic acid templates

The acquisition will expand the CDMO's capabilities and capacity to serve European markets

By Yifei Chen and Yasemin Bettina Karanis, IQVIA

By Yifei Chen and Yasemin Bettina Karanis, IQVIA

The CPO's new division will offer a holistic blister packaging development service, complete with QA and non-destructive leak testing, encompassing material selection, tooling design, and 3D prototyping

How are changes in new treatments and disease areas – as well as the current pandemic crisis - affecting demand for APIs?

European Commission pressures pharma firm over reduced shipments amid criticism for slow vaccine rollout across block

The CDMO gears up for rapid deployment of its clinical-to-commercial manufacturing operations for its seventh collaboration to help deliver COVID-19 treatments

Acquisition will add Mesa's rapid PCR test for infectious diseases including COVID-19 to global CDMO's diagnostics offering

The donation from Ineos will create a new institute to tackle the "silent pandemic"