Pharmaceutical Technology Editors

At CPhI Worldwide 2018, Tom Wilson, vice president of Contract Manufacturing Operations for Pfizer Global Supply and Pfizer CentreOne Contract Manufacturing, will discuss best practices for meeting manufacturing challenges of compliance as requirements shift.

The UCL-Pall Biotech Centre of Excellence will address industry challenges and provide workforce training.

Bormioli Pharma, a provider of integrated glass and plastic containers, closures, and accessories for packaging, will showcase products at CPhI Worldwide 2018 at booth 4C20, from Oct. 9–11, 2018.

Syngene International’s Jegadeesh Thampi will discuss the significance of engineering data generation to develop robust, safe, and reproducible processes on Oct. 11, 2018 at CPhI Worldwide.

At this year’s CPhI Worldwide congress in Madrid, Spain, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) will present its range of products spanning probiotics and microbiome solutions to highly purified, injectable-grade vegetable oils.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has opened a consultation to seek views on how legislations and procedures of the agency may need to be modified should there be a ‘no-deal’ Brexit scenario.

Advances in biologic drug development require increased methodological and technological innovation from the biopharma industry. Learn more at the new bioLIVE launching this year adjacent to CPhI Worldwide 2018.

The new bioLIVE event, launching this year with CPhI Worldwide 2018, will explore innovation in bioprocessing and manufacturing with a focus on the roles of innovative methods and technology for biopharma continuous manufacturing.

Luxembourg-based pharmaceutical group, C2 Pharma (formerly known as Centroflora CMS) successfully validated the manufacturing process for two APIs-digoxin and digoxin micron.

During CPhI Worldwide 2018 in Madrid, Spain, DuPont will showcase fully integrated pharmaceutical and healthcare portfolios, combining those of DuPont Nutrition & Health, Dow Pharma Solutions, and FMC Health and Nutrition.

Neopac, provider of high-quality tube packaging, has announced in a press release it will introduce a new eyecare solution at CPhI’s event in Madrid, Spain from Oct. 9–11, 2018.

The agency approved Insmed’s Arikayce (amikacin liposome inhalation suspension), for the treatment of lung disease caused by a group of bacteria, Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) in a limited population of patients with the disease who do not respond to conventional treatment (refractory disease).

Lonza’s Capsugel Colorista capsule R&D solution can cut overall development time and offers greater flexibility during technical color development.

Funding from Innovate UK will be used by Medherant to support manufacture of transdermal patches for clinical trials.

The companies will work together to discover, develop, and commercialize immunotherapies for patients with solid-tumor cancers in a collaboration worth $695 million per program.

Idifarma, a Spanish contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) that specialises in niche and highly potent products, confirmed on Oct. 1, 2018 that its good manufacturing practice (GMP) spray drying technology for highly potent drugs is now operational.

Rentschler Fill Solutions received a certificate of GMP compliance from the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety for its new aseptic fill/finish facility.

Kangstem Biotech has selected Orgenesis subsidiary, MaSTherCell, as its contract manufacturing partner for the European clinical trial of Furestem-AD.

The companies partnered to build a 500-L single-use pilot-scale plant for biologics production.

Researchers who are younger than 35 years with an advanced degree and working within Europe will be able to apply for the award.

The divestiture of the European generic-drug business of Sanofi-Zentiva-to Advent International has been completed.

Mettler Toledo’s XSR Analytical Balances help simplify laboratory workflows and enable convenient and ergonomic balance operation while delivering high-weighing accuracy.

Romaco Siebler and Huhtamaki will premiere a push-through strip packaging for pharmaceuticals at CPhI WorldWide 2018.

As Europe and the United Kingdom are facing the ever-expanding shadow of Brexit, a keynote session taking place at CPhI Worldwide in Madrid will look to assess the wider implications of the UK’s exit from the European Union on the Pharma sector.

This pharma insight briefing from Agilent Technologies will cover the application of Raman and infrared spectroscopy for pharmaceutical quality control (QC).

The companies collaborated to launch a new cell-based profiling service for biochemical assay.

Specialist biopharmaceutical company, Alvotech, has announced receipt of a manufacturing license from the Icelandic Medicines Agency, applying to its biopharmaceutical facility based in Reykjavik, Iceland.

New software tools by Tecan, a provider of automated laboratory instruments and solutions, complement each other to enhance process monitoring of its liquid-handling platforms.

CPhI releases the bio trends portion of its annual report, which predicts an increase in bioconjucation expertise and biopharma productivity over the next five years.

A collaboration using Pall’s bioprocessing technology in G-CON’s PODs enables flexible continuous bioprocessing and viral vector facility solutions.