Manufacturing

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This article highlights how quality control microbiology is evolving into a proactive, integrated component of modern contamination control strategies across the biopharmaceutical lifecycle.

Understanding how factors such as excipient choice affect nitrosamine formation is essential to developing safer, lower-risk pharmaceutical formulations.

Malav Parikh, director, Quality Risk Management, Global Quality Compliance and Systems, Takeda, spoke with PharmTech about efforts in anticounterfeiting and the use of predictive modeling to validate transport conditions.

This article details what co-processed excipients are and how they are made.

Contract development and manufacturing organizations can assist the sponsor company in ensuring sterility assurance in alignment with the EU’s Annex 1 guidelines.

FDA’s Project Optimus shifts oncology dosing from MTD to balancing efficacy and safety via metrics like Net Treatment Benefit to pick doses.

This article explores key engineering strategies that support this transformation, including hybrid reactor design, clean-in-place optimization, automation architecture, and modular scalability.

Malav Parikh, director, Quality Risk Management, Global Quality Compliance and Systems, Takeda, spoke with PharmTech about the technologies being used to fight counterfeiting and how predictive modeling can be used to validate transport conditions.

Olon is expanding global biologics and high-potency manufacturing capacity across four countries, with major ADC chain investments completing in 2026.

Industry experts explain how incorporating sustainability into the early development phase creates greener pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Developments across the sector highlight a period of rapid acceleration and structural modernization.

The author discusses analytical techniques for cleaning and disinfection, clean room operation, packaging component preparation, water-for-injection production, sterile product preparation, and aseptic filling, stoppering, and sealing.

Sartorius' new engineered host cell line triples productivity and doubles expression titers while maintaining long-term genetic stability.

Trust-based CDMO partnerships are becoming essential to accelerate injectable drug development, manage risk, and ensure resilient biopharma supply.

FDA commissioner warns US trial startup delays may cede early drug development to China, urging IND and IRB process reforms amid global competitions.

A $1 Billion Pennsylvania cell therapy site investment bolsters domestic manufacturing, creating 500 skilled biomanufacturing jobs.

PharmTech spoke with women working in the pharmaceutical industry about the innovations they are seeing in bio/pharma and the role women play in the development of critical treatments for patients.

Fresenius Kabi and Phlow partner to onshore US epinephrine production, securing the domestic supply chain for essential medicines.

Integrated CDMO networks streamline complex drug development across advanced modalities like ADCs.

PharmTech spoke with Elisabeth Gardiner, chief scientific officer at Tevard Biosciences, about how hands-on, early exposure to STEM fields can demystify complex concepts.

The PreCheck Pilot Program is designed to strengthen the US pharmaceutical supply chain by increasing regulatory predictability and streamlining the assessment of new domestic manufacturing sites.

This week's coverage discusses the M&A report, $50B+ investments, automated cell therapy, vaccine approvals, and risks from the US leaving the WHO.