Dosage Forms

Despite the challenges and high cost of development, vaccine innovation is at an all-time high, as new approaches aim to improve global access.

This article explores some of the challenges, services, and technologies that go into ensuring that vaccines are properly temperature controlled and maintain product integrity for delivery to patients.

The use of approved platform technologies can reduce the time and cost required to generate new vaccines.

The company expects to commercially launch the new vaccine in the US in the first quarter of 2018.

As part of Recipharm’s ongoing initiative to improve profitability and competitiveness, a decision has been made to end operations in Stockholm and Höganäs.

The debate continues over biosimilar naming, interchangeability, and patent protection, as well as lingering concerns in the medical community about the safety of switching patients to new therapies.

The Human Vaccines Project has created the Universal Influenza Vaccine Initiative, a research program that will aim to understand the human immune system’s role in the development of universal influenza vaccines.

Capsugel announced on Oct. 31, 2017 that it expanded clinical trial capabilities, as well as increased development and manufacturing capabilities for specialized drug products using liquid-filled hard capsule technology, at its Edinburgh facility in Scotland.

Ralph Gosden, head of product development at Catalent’s Swindon, United Kingdom site, explains the opportunities of orally disintegrating tablets as a patient-centric dosage form.

Experts from Colorcon share insights on how manufacturers can play a role in minimizing the risk of medication errors by ensuring that the medicines they develop are well differentiated, especially between dosages of the same product.

Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly adopting patient-centric formulation development to ensure that drug products adequately meet the needs of end-users in all target patient populations.

Taste masking increases drug acceptability and medication adherence in pediatric, geriatric, and other special patient populations.

In Part I of this article series, the regression control chart method for identifying out-of-trend data in pharmaceutical stability studies is investigated, and an improved approach is suggested.

Model-based formulation and technology selection methodologies facilitate rapid product development.

Eli Lilly was awarded the 2017 FOYA Overall Winner for its continuous direct compression manufacturing installation projects.

The vaccine is approved for the prevention of shingles in adult patients aged 50 years and older.

The company has passed inspection by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, and is now licensed to develop, manufacture, and pack non-potent and potent solid oral drug products at its site in Loughborough, England.

The biotechnology company’s drug for treating hives in adults has been granted an expanded indication by the European Commission to treat children and adolescents.

Inovio has reported results from a study with non-human primates that showed 100% effectiveness with a DNA vaccine the company is developing with the US Army.

The agency has published educational material for physicians promoting the benefits of biosimilars.

The $72-million investment, part of a larger $850-million investment into its US operations, will allow the drugmaker to replace an outdated insulin vial-filling line and to upgrade technology at its Indianapolis manufacturing plant.

The companies aim to use CureVac’s proprietary messenger RNA technology to develop and commercialize up to five potential cancer vaccine products.

The two companies announced their collaboration for the production and development of cancer vaccines.

Through the support of the Japanese agency, Daiichi Sankyo intends to further develop its genetic vaccine platform focused around its new nucleic acid delivery technology.

The vaccine is a non-live, recombinant subunit vaccine that combines an antigen and an adjuvant system to trigger a targeted and long-lasting immune response to the shingle-causing virus.

West will be showcasing its range of packaging components and drug delivery solutions, including NovaPure components, LyoSeal caps, and the SmartDose platform.

The company is investing EUR 170 million (US$201 million) to expand its vaccine manufacturing site in France for its newest influenza vaccine.

The collaboration will focus on developing a novel and differentiated challenge model for respiratory syncytial virus.

Under Project BioShield, the agency could provide more than $170 million in funding to purchase and support late-stage development of Ebola vaccines and therapeutic drugs.

The Danish biotechnology company has been awarded a sole-source BARDA contract valued at more than $539 million for a freeze-dried smallpox vaccine.