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Drug Digest: Strategic Alliances and Technology Integration in the Evolving Biopharma Landscape
In this episode of Drug Digest, the discussion centers around the optimization of biopharmaceutical manufacturing and supply chain efficiency through the mastering of AI capabilities, data integration, and critical validation challenges.

Drug Digest: Small Molecules, APIs, and Excipients—Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
In this exclusive Drug Digest video, Steve Barr from SK pharmteco and Prasad Raje from LGM Pharma explore how supply chain pressures, sustainability, and AI adoption are reshaping small molecule development and excipient use in pharma.

Drug Digest: Speed, Flexibility Top Large-Molecule Manufacturing Trends
In this exclusive Drug Digest video, Deepak Bahl from Roquette and Jagruti Patel from Lonza look at strategies for accelerating early-stage development while reducing risk, approaches to speeding up timelines for complex formats without sacrificing quality, and maintaining a flexible CMC process that ensures quality.

Drug Digest: Patient Preference Drives Solid Dosage Trends
In this exclusive Drug Digest video, Adi Kaushal from Lonza summarizes the current state of the oral solid dosage market, identifies the main challenges to drug developers, explains how CDMOs are leveraging expert techniques to improve OSD bioavailability, and looks into the future of advancements in drug delivery.

Drug Digest: Keeping Pace with Progressive Technologies in Biopharma Development
This episode of Drug Digest will discuss where the significant bottlenecks are in the development and manufacturing of new molecules resulting from progressive technologies, such as AI and ML, and how best to approach these challenges.

Drug Digest: Strategic Partnerships
In this exclusive Drug Digest video interview John McQuaid from Almac Pharma Services and Sridevi Khambhampaty from Shilpa Biologics delve into the evolution of the bio/pharma outsourcing market and look at how service-providers’ strategies have adapted to meet demand.

Drug Digest: Advances in Small-Molecule Manufacturing
In this exclusive Drug Digest video interview Anil Kane from Thermo Fisher Scientific will be tackling the topic of advances in small-molecule manufacturing and several other experts will provide brief commentaries on associated topics.

Drug Digest: Challenges and Triumphs in Next-Generation Biotherapeutic Development
In this episode of Drug Digest, industry experts discuss their experiences in dealing with the challenges of developing and manufacturing next-generation biotherapeutics as well as triumphs that move the industry as a whole forward.

Drug Digest: Focusing on Solid Dosage Trends and Demand
In this exclusive Drug Digest video interview an industry expert discusses key trends impacting solid dosage drug development and manufacturing.

Drug Digest: From Theory to Reality: Automating Process Development
In this episode of Drug Digest, industry experts discuss the ongoing development of automating biomanufacturing processes, including its challenges and practical applications.
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At AAPS PharmSci 360 2025, Elly Zhou says digital twins helped forecast the effects of drugs on human drugs via a digital control arm.

At AAPS PharmSci 360, Xialing Li, PhD, says 3D-printed budesonide tablets achieve precise, delayed delivery to the ileum for IgA nephropathy, lowering in vivo variability.

At AAPS PharmSci 360, Xuanzi Zhou says digital twins accurately predict ex vivo lung function, revealing therapeutic effects missed by conventional preclinical drug testing.

Siddhant Sojitra, Alexion, defines in an AAPS PharmSci 360 2025 presentation an agitation model to reliably test stability for early-stage biologics.

In a poster presentation at AAPS PharmSci 360, Eda Fenercioglu, a scientist at Pfizer, outlines a streamline workflow for identifying and mitigating visible particles in biologic drugs.

Pharmaceutical Technology® spoke with Steve Lowes, senior director of Scientific Affairs at IQVIA Laboratories, ahead of AAPS PharmSci 360 to discuss some of the unique instruments used to conduct bioanalysis.

Pharmaceutical Technology® spoke with Steve Lowes, senior director of Scientific Affairs at IQVIA Laboratories, ahead of AAPS PharmSci 360 to discuss method validation of biomarker bioanalysis.

In a poster presentation at AAPS PharmSci 360, by Dineli Ranathunga, PhD, indicates that AI/ML in-silico modeling can accelerate poorly soluble drug development.

PharmSci 360 will spotlight the economics behind AI, scale-up, and advanced modalities, addressing cost barriers that influence future drug manufacturing.

AI is transforming pharma R&D, bioanalysis, and manufacturing. The industry faces intense competition (obesity wars) and FDA regulatory instability.

Pharmaceutical Technology® spoke with Dr. Mark Arnold, owner and principal, Bioanalytical Solution Integration, ahead of AAPS PharmSci 360 to find out how bioanalysis enhances bio/pharmaceutical drug development.

Pharmaceutical Technology® spoke with Steve Lowes, senior director of Scientific Affairs at IQVIA Laboratories, ahead of AAPS PharmSci 360 to discuss how LC–MS is used in bioanalysis.

Long Yuan, PhD, director of the Department of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics at Biogen, explains how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language models are used in performing bioanalysis.

AAPS PharmSci 360 will spotlight AI advances, gene therapy progress, and leading pharma research insights this year, says programming chair Mei He.

Thermo Fisher’s Jennifer Cannon reviews the first year of the company’s Accelerator Drug Development suite of services and the overall experience of attending the CPHI conference.

Frank Romanski of Lonza Capsugel dives into the excipient side of manufacturing and the emerging prevalence of digitalization.

Analysis of FDA 505(b)(2) data (2024–2025) shows 69 drug reformulations, with a focus on enhancing stability and patient comfort, utilizing new dosage forms, and innovative strategies.

In Episode 28, Miroslav Gasparek, Sensible; Lizzy Lawrence, STAT; and Joe Lewis, Deloitte, go behind the headlines.

With pharmaceutical tariffs fundamentally impacting costs, global supply chains, and more, it’s important for industry professionals to understand the basics.

Exclusive interviews revealed that digital transformation, data integrity protocols, and a regionalized supply chain are crucial strategies for optimizing drug development and manufacturing efficiency.

Vishal Mukund Sonje, Vaccine Manufacturing Lead, CEPI, talks about the challenges that arise in the manufacturing of vaccines in various global regions.

Pharma companies are focusing on sustainability efforts to meet client expectations, environmental audits, and climate pressures.

Christian Dowdeswell, managing director, Arcinova, a Quotient Sciences company, discusses what makes a CDMO that offers end-to-end service beneficial.

The planned Kenvue acquisition, expected to close in the second half of 2026, has notable implications for pharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing professionals.

Maggie Saykali reviews the key points of her CPHI Frankfurt presentation on the potential game-changing opportunities of the Critical Medicines Act.

J.D. Mowery, Bora, says global sustainability standards are good, AI implementation demands data cleansing, and outsourcing must mature.

Patient compliance is driving the emergence of new modalities, as Frank Romanski of Lonza Capsugel explains in the first installment of a two-part discussion.

Sriman Banerjee of Takeda Pharmaceuticals says patient adherence is improving thanks to technologies that offer a more personalized approach.

J.D. Mowery discusses boosting pharma supply resilience through localized manufacturing, AI innovation, and critical regulatory standardization.

AI-driven pharma trends: R&D acceleration via data integration, supply chain localization, excipient innovation, and rapid workforce upskilling.

In this episode of Drug Digest, the discussion centers around the optimization of biopharmaceutical manufacturing and supply chain efficiency through the mastering of AI capabilities, data integration, and critical validation challenges.

J.D. Mowery, Bora, says tariffs localize biopharma supply chains, the "biotech freeze" mandates robust data, and AI rapidly optimizes operations.

Maggie Saykali, Cefic, explains that Western pharma vulnerability stems from market loss to Asia, caused largely by short-sighted offshoring due to environmental costs.
























