April 2nd 2025
Sitting down with the PharmTech Group at INTERPHEX 2025, Christopher Murphy, director of Global Business Development and Service Customer Support at Environmental Specialties, discusses the design and critical role of walk-in chambers in the bio/pharmaceutical industry.
The evolution of therapeutic modalities drives the adoption of single-use technologies.
Practical Steps To Prevent Counterfeiting
January 14th 2011With counterfeit medicines increasingly appearing in legitimate supply chains and even in the clinical stages of product development, a recent white paper has outlined practical steps that may help companies address the issue of counterfeits and diverted products.
Pharma Changes its R&D Strategy
January 13th 2011With dozens of prescription drugs soon to lose patent protection and few likely blockbusters in industry pipelines, drug developers are "aggressively" changing the way they do R&D, according to the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD).
Printable Medicines: A Microdosing Device For Producing Personalized Medicines
The authors describe a new method for the production of personalised medicines utilising ultra-precise microdrop printing technology.
GlaxoSmithKline Responds to 60 Minutes Segment on Manufacturing Issues
January 6th 2011GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) issued a statement on Jan. 2, 2011, to respond to a 60 Minutes segment that aired on Jan. 2 that focused on quality-control problems at a former GSK manufacturing facility in Cidra, Puerto Rico.
DCAT President Discusses the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
January 5th 2011Pharmaceutical Technology discusses the key issues and trends facing the pharmaceutical supply chain with Bob Kanuga, executive director of the external manufacturing organization with Merck & Co. Inc. and president of the Drug, Chemical and Associated Technologies Association (DCAT).
Manufacturing Techniques of Orally Dissolving Films
January 2nd 2011The manufacture of orally dissolving films is done by various methods such as solvent casting, hot-melt extrusion, semisolid casting, solid-dispersion extrusion, and rolling. The authors discuss these methods and the various parameters in which dissolving films are evaluated.