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Patricia Van Arnum was executive editor of Pharmaceutical Technology.
June 22, 2006
Pall Corporation (East Hills, NY) reported strong sales growth in its biopharmaceuticals business in the fiscal third quarter (ending April 30, 2006) and announced plans for a company-wide cost-savings program.
June 16, 2006
Preformulation represents an early-stage opportunity to facilitate the eventual movement of a drug substance into a commercial product. Strategies to optimize the preformulation process were outlined by Harry Brittain, institute director for the Center for Pharmaceutical Physics (Milford, NJ). He spoke at the PharmTech Annual Event in Somerset, New Jersey this week.
The ongoing battle between Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany) and Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) in their respective quests to acquire Schering AG (Berlin, Germany) was resolved this week, with Merck KGaA agreeing to sell its 21.8% stake in Schering to Bayer.
NPIL Pharma, a subsidiary of Nicholas Piramal India Limited (Mumbai, India) has agreed to acquire the Morpeth, Northumberland, UK, manufacturing facility of Pfizer Inc. (New York, NY).
GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK, London, UK) will invest more than GBP102 million ($188 million) over the next four years in a vaccine manufacturing plant in Singapore.
Accurate characterization of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) is a critical part of the drug development process. The approaches used to characterize APIs with respect to structure, identification of impurities, and the solid-state were discussed by Andrew C. Kolbert, manager, molecular structure and spectroscopy, Cardinal Health (Dublin, OH).