Outsourcing

Pharmaceutical-industry executives from Merck & Co., Pfizer, and Covidien share their perspectives on their expectations and evaluation in the preferred-provider relationship. Read this and other preferred organization articles in this special issue.

Novartis Acquires Genoptix; Lilly Exec Becomes Savient CEO; and More.

Reflecting the manufacturing restructuring ongoing in the bio/pharmaceutical industry, Amgen and sanofi-aventis announced the sale of manufacturing facilities to contract manufacturers.

Merck Teams with Parexel; Roche CFO to Retire; and More

Gilead Sciences to Acquire Arresto Biosciences; Sartorius Appoints Head of Lab Business; and More.

Contract manufacturers strengthen their toolboxes and partnerships as they navigate the changing drug-development model.

The European Commission and Medicines Agency seem to be moving in advance of their ICH partners to update standards.

Expert and implementation working groups harmonize more guidelines and move Q11 forward.

Industry executives share insight into the future direction of drug manufacturing and the supply chain. This article contains online bonus material.

Top priorities for manufacturers include user fees, new health initiatives, and regulatory compliance.

Capable of great works, pharma as a whole still yields to the lesser angels of its nature.

A Q&A with Spectrum Laboratories President Tony MacDonald.

Holding product and supply-chain security to the highest standards is crucial for the future.

Industry experts offer their best practices for dealing with deviations. This article contains online bonus material.

CDMOs and CMOs face weak economic recovery, consolidation, and globalization.

AstraZeneca and Abbott End Program; PhRMA Elects New Members; and More.

After five years of discussions, the US Food and Drug Administration is joining the Pharmaceutical Inspection Convention (PIC) and the Pharmaceutical Inspection Cooperation Scheme (PIC Scheme), known together as PIC/S.

Pfizer Recalls One Lipitor Lot; Sanofi Aventis Names Head of R&D; and More.

Thermo Fisher to Acquire Dionex; Former SOCMA CEO Joe Acker Dies; and More.

Company and People Notes: GlaxoSmithKline acquires Nanjing MeiRui Pharma; Cephalon's CEO to remain on medical leave; and more.

Supportive public policy is needed in order for innovation to flourish.

Outsourcing packaging functions can save time and money.

Covance's deal with sanofi-aventis demonstrates the power of scale and scope.

IPEC extends its reach to Brazil and Argentina in an effort to harmonize excipient best practices.

Contract Manufacturing Organisations offering manufacturing capabilities to suit specific industry sectors, niche segments or perhaps simply to meet the demands of individual clients? processes face a greater challenge when designing their facilities and cleanrooms when compared with an originator company or a single-product manufacturing facility.

On Nov. 17, 2010, Novartis (Basel) disclosed its long-term business strategy, which emphasizes diversification in what the company described as high-growth healthcare segments.

Genzyme Sells Business Unit to Sekisui Chemical; Ablexis Names VP of Research; and More.

During the 20 months before the crisis of contaminated heparin in early 2008, the US Food and Drug Administration did not inspect any Chinese heparin firms, according to a US Government Accountability Office, (GAO) report.

Roche Details Restructuring Plan; Sigma-Aldrich Names Successors after CEO's Death; and More.

The US Food and Drug Administration's Puerto Rico district office "may be having difficulty exercising oversight on the numerous pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities on the island," according to Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY), chair of the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.