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A robust marketing strategy is key to building brand equity and an effective, efficient sales pipeline—the overall goal. And the best way to develop that all-important strategy is to take stock of where you’re at and assess your resources. To aid in this self-assessment, we’ve developed The Life Science Marketer’s Checklist of must-haves for marketing professionals in the industry. This tool is designed to help you see your areas of strength and pinpoint areas you may have overlooked or have room for improvement.

Biologics—including vaccines, cell and gene therapies, monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), and their biosimilars—have great potential for the treatment and prophylaxis of a broad range of diseases. But, rapid and efficient development of new and effective biologics is no easy feat. With such drastic implications for time and resources, it is imperative that biologic manufacturers choose the right commercial collaborators from the start—agile partners who can improve predictivity, speed, and consistency to bridge basic and clinical research.

The transition from early phase to late phase of a small molecule program plays a pivotal role in determining a program’s ultimate success. Early planning strategies can help minimize the burdens often faced in that transition. The implementation of modeling tools to analyze the relationships between material attributes, process parameters and product performance can provide an enhanced understanding of the drug product and improve manufacturing efficiency. In this executive summary, experts will demonstrate how Catalent’s (multivariate) modeling tools can help understand the relationship between material Critical Material Attributes (CMAs), unit operation Critical Process Parameters (CPPs) and their impact on the finished dosage. In addition, the experts will explain how these approaches can facilitate in the tech transfer of a program. Lastly, this executive summary includes an overview of Catalent’s oral solid dose turnkey solutions featuring advanced oral solid dosage (OSD) manufacturing technologies and expertise throughout an extensive global network.

Although probiotics are mostly administered in the form of capsules, there are some advantages of tablets in terms of production effort, cost efficiency and stability of the probiotic bacteria. As probiotics are sensitive to high pressure and temperature, it is essential to select appropriate excipients for direct compression to ensure sufficient viability of the bacteria cells during production and storage

Do you face challenges when it comes to smaller production quantities, more specialization and many product creations. Flexibility is the answer. With the help of agile systems pharmaceutical manufacturers can overcome these challenges just as easy. Learn how flexible systems bring the decisive advantage to simply switch between the technologies of which you can benefit already in the development phase of solids. The white paper provides information on important approaches to making solids production more flexible and how agile systems can help.

In order to achieve the desired properties in a solid medicinal product, a granulate must be optimally prepared. Did you know that you can have a significant influence on the material properties of your granulate using different granulation techniques? The wet granulation of pharmaceutical granulate mixtures with subsequent fluidized bed drying represents the most important step in the manufacture of solids. But there are other techniques, too. You can find out here which other processes you should know about.

Do you face challenges when it comes to smaller production quantities, more specialization and many product creations. Flexibility is the answer. With the help of agile systems pharmaceutical manufacturers can overcome these challenges just as easy. Learn how flexible systems bring the decisive advantage to simply switch between the technologies of which you can benefit already in the development phase of solids. The white paper provides information on important approaches to making solids production more flexible and how agile systems can help.

In order to achieve the desired properties in a solid medicinal product, a granulate must be optimally prepared. Did you know that you can have a significant influence on the material properties of your granulate using different granulation techniques? The wet granulation of pharmaceutical granulate mixtures with subsequent fluidized bed drying represents the most important step in the manufacture of solids. But there are other techniques, too. You can find out here which other processes you should know about.

As organizations seek to identify areas where technology can make the most impact, a look at some real-world examples of how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are being used in highly regulated environments can offer valuable insight.

In cleanrooms and other critical environments, it’s important to understand the role that proper wiping technique plays in reliable and consistent contamination control. When cleaning contamination you cannot see, technique is a sure way to know you’ve covered the surface area in question.

In this podcast, Kayleigh Hearse, Sr Mgr. Technical Projects, Capacity Expansion Pharma Production shares details of Baxter BioPharma Solution’s approximately $100 million expansion of its sterile fill/finish manufacturing facility located in Halle/Westfalen, Germany. Kayleigh explains many of the key attributes of the new building, key learnings and major considerations that took place throughout the planning phase.

Media manufacturers must offer global redundancy at harmonized manufacturing facilities to enable streamlined capabilities–especially for their customers outsourcing proprietary cell culture media formulations. This paper details Thermo Fisher’s manufacturing equivalency approach utilized at two global facilities located in Miami, Florida, and Grand Island, New York.

The importance of successfully scaling up cell culture media cannot be overstated. Not starting the process soon enough can introduce issues with solubility, manufacturability, procurement, and cost management. This article considers technical and commercial best practices that drug developers may enact so that they, their suppliers and media manufacturers, and in turn, their cell culture media remain on the most efficient path to market.

In this project, Thermo Fisher Scientific worked with a multinational biopharmaceutical company to investigate trace element variability in its custom cell culture media. Within a year, using a risk-based, collaborative approach, both teams were able to thoroughly characterize incoming specific raw materials and implement proactive measures for reducing the risk of impurities, ultimately providing the company with a long-term risk mitigation strategy.