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Lidia Serina, PhD, head of Development Services at Simtra BioPharma Solutions, discusses the challenges with maintaining aseptic integrity in sterile injectable pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Pharmaceutical Technology® chats with Simon Wright from Almac Pharma Services about shifting demand for commercial manufacturing services and how service providers are adapting to meet demand.

The partnership aims to develop and commercialize a novel checkpoint inhibitor for immuno-oncology applications.

The Member Company Announcement Forum is the kickoff event of the annual DCAT Week in New York City, which is being held from March 17–20.

Pharmaceutical Technology® spoke with Peter Belden, president of Tjoapack US, ahead of DCAT Week 2025 to discuss recent innovations in bio/pharmaceutical packaging.

This model is being positioned by Shilpa as a dual approach that offers comprehensive discovery, clinical, and commercial outsourcing services in addition to commercially ready, “off-the-shelf” novel formulations for b2b licensing.

As part of our coverage of this year’s DCAT Week, Pharmaceutical Technology® spoke with Hamilton Lenox, chief commercial officer at LGM Pharma about the expanding pharma market and the challenges such demand creates.

In an interview with Pharmaceutical Technology®, Ian Lafferty from Upperton discusses the trends and challenges facing sterile manufacturing and how partnering with CDMOs can help innovators progress to the market.

The company’s US entity, Iwata Label USA, will exhibit its Vial Protect Pack, Light Protect Pack, and Shrink Tack Label.

Sterimove will make its North American debut at the April 1–3, 2025 event.

The investment is intended for the Halo Pharma facility in Whippany, NJ, and aims to help relieve capacity shortages in the injectable supply chain in the United States.

The company says it is the pharmaceutical market’s first wet granulator with an integrated, truly continuous dryer.

Winners in this year's Pharmapack Awards include both commercial products and innovations that are shaping the future of pharmaceutical packaging.

Pharmaceutical Technology® sat down with Stefan Verheyden, Global Vice President Sales Pharma & Biopharma Solutions Injectables at Gerresheimer, to talk about the primary and secondary packaging solutions Gerresheimer and Bormioli Pharma will be showcasing at Pharmapack Europe 2025 in Paris, France from January 22–23.

The company will be featuring its sustainable packaging solutions at the event in Paris on Jan. 22–23, 2025.

The two companies will be exhibiting together after Gerresheimer’s December 2024 acquisition of Bormioli.

Production is set to take place at Samsung Biologics’ Songdo, South Korea, site, and the agreement will run through December 2030, subject to change.

Pharmapack identifies biologic approvals, drug delivery advancements, GLP-1 generics, and the return of funding flow as drivers for a record year in 2025.

The company will be showcasing its injection blow molded bottles and five-layer blown film at the packaging event in Paris on Jan. 22–23, 2025.

The first CPHI Middle East event will be held Dec. 10–12, 2024 at the Riyadh Front Exhibition & Convention Center Riyadh in Saudi Arabia and is expected to be host to 30,000 pharma professionals.

Pharmaceutical Technology® caught up with Brittany Hayes, PhD, Highly Potent & Oncology Platform Director at CordenPharma, after AAPS PharmSci 360 to talk about the challenges and quality requirements involved in the development and manufacture of peptide-based oral dosage forms.

The system is Hapman’s first major product launch since 2008, following a year of intensive R&D that builds upon the company’s eight decades of tubular drag conveyor expertise.

Alec McChesney (BD Director, SCORR Marketing) discusses goal setting and alignment between life sciences marketing and business development teams.

Marianna Tcherpakov, PhD, director of Business Development, CMC Services, at Frontage Laboratories, spoke on the CDMO’s role in tackling complex technical challenges to enable startup biotechs solve scale up problems.

Pauline Janssen of DFE Pharma gave a presentation on the utility of analyzing big data sets to better understand and diagnose variability in the production process.

Pharmaceutical Technology Europe chats with Kevin Li, MBA, from BioDuro-Sundia about integrated services and the benefits these services can provide to pharma companies.

Shawn Li, principal scientist at Merck & Co., known as MSD outside the Unites States and Canada, talked about the importance of properly characterizing HCPs in the biomanufacturing process.

At AAPS PharmSci 360, Karunakar Sukuru, RPh, PhD, the global vice-president-Rx Product Development, Pharma and Consumer Health, at Catalent Pharma Solutions, discussed lipid-based formulations and tackling bioavailability challenges for oral biologics.

Karunakar Sukuru, RPh, PhD, the global vice-president-Rx Product Development, Pharma and Consumer Health, at Catalent Pharma Solutions, spoke on recent challenges and trends in softgel formulations.

Bala Addepalli, PhD, Director, R&D New Modalities Portfolio, Waters Corporation, discussed trends in new analytical tools for RNA characterization and gave highlights of his talk at AAPS PharmSci 360.