For many years, the pharmaceutical industry meant “small (usually synthetic) molecules” mixed with various non-active materials and put into capsules or, in the old days, rolled into pills or pressed into tablets. While synthesizing the APIs (active pharmaceutical ingredients), formulating the dosage forms, and analyzing the materials at every step of the life cycle was not always trivial, it was relatively straightforward.
A race is being run to create the pharmaceutical manufacturing of the future and with Pharma 4.0, powerful market trends are shaping the running field.
This article will share recent analysis of price increases within the healthcare sector in an effort to understand the growth of healthcare expenditures and pharmaceutical prices over time.
The FDA’s Population Pharmacokinetics Guidance for Industry draft calls for sponsors of new drug and biologics license applications to apply population PK analysis. This column covers the implications for drug and device manufacturers.
Following a trial in the District Court of New Jersey, Sandoz has been barred from marketing a biosimilar version of Amgen’s Enbrel product. Due to the scarcity of biologics patent case rulings, this case provides an interesting precedent for how future decisions may treat biologics patent issues.
This is the second part of a two-part article counting down the FDA’s top 10 most-common drug GMP inspection citations for the agency’s 2018 fiscal year (FY2018).
A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has indicated that pharmaceutical makers with patent protection are unlikely to receive any compensation from the government for the loss of their patents during inter partes review (IPR) decisions by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
With all the attention on the costs of pharmaceutical products, there is an upcoming regulatory “dead zone” that will potentially delay market entry of certain insulin products, adversely impacting insulin prices for consumers and payors. A recent Senate bill has been proposed to address this regulatory anomaly. Industry players should monitor this bill and other efforts to address the insulin dead zone, given how critical this product is to so many people.
An organized effort across biopharma, including drug substance manufacturers and suppliers, is needed to address and meet the needs of industry regarding raw material quality and consistency.
An outlook on the market shows plasma fractionators will have to look to innovation and other opportunities for supply, in order to meet the needs of patients.
There is an increased risk of viral contamination in settings where ATMPs are prepared, making it critical to understand the contamination risks and the solutions available to control them.
Transitioning to a continuous processing approach requires the implementation of an effective virus clearance strategy, which is intended to prevent various virus contaminations that could threaten patient safety.
This whitepaper discusses the importance of understanding how critical process parameters can impact a product’s critical quality attributes, and how a systematic approach with validated SPR assays can help in this respect.
Increasing the integration of upstream and downstream processing and moving toward increased automation results in greater optimization of process efficiency — a key goal for biopharma production.
Free collection of articles highlighting some of the dynamics playing out in the hospital setting for biosimilars, as well as how physicians and drugmakers can foster a greater understanding of biosimilar medicines.
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