The FDA program described in a new document, CDER’s Quality Management Maturity (QMM) Program: Practice Areas and Prototype Assessment Protocol Development, is a next logical step to drive better quality, more predictable outcomes, and supply chain assurance.
- Risk Tool Selection With ICH Q9(R1) In Mind
- Moving From Clinical Stage To Commercial? 4 Steps For An Outsourcing Strategy
- Emerging Market Trends For APIs
- Your Best Chance At Regulatory Compliance For Combination Products: Integrated Development
- Global Market Trends For Drug–Device Combination Products
- New ISO 14644-21:2023 Addresses Reducing Sampling Errors With Airborne Particle Counters
- Survey Results Show What Could Finally Make Sustainability Stick
GUEST COLUMNISTS
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Risk Tool Selection With ICH Q9(R1) In Mind
This article focuses on the formality concept discussed in the revision of ICH Q9 Quality Risk Management released earlier in 2023. The authors provide a helpful overview of what risk tools are appropriate to use during certain types of scenarios, and what the team composition should look like.
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Moving From Clinical Stage To Commercial? 4 Steps For An Outsourcing Strategy
If you're a pre-commercial bio/pharma looking ahead to commercial stage, evaluating partnerships are faced with making key decisions around which capabilities to outsource, the degree of data access and ownership, and which external partners are the right fit. Here are four key actions to consider.
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Emerging Market Trends For APIs
The active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) market is estimated at $158 billion in 2023 and is projected to reach $232 billion by 2028. This article shares new market research on APIs, including an analysis of innovative and generic APIs, synthetic and biotech APIs, and more.
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Your Best Chance At Regulatory Compliance For Combination Products: Integrated Development
The FDA now defines a prefilled syringe, a product that was at one point considered “packaging” for a drug, as a constituent part of a combination product. The ultimate combination of the drug, its package, and its delivery device means that during development and manufacturing you need to combine both drug and device current good manufacturing practices (cGMPs) and quality approaches.
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Global Market Trends For Drug–Device Combination Products
Drug–device combination products, also known simply as combination products, have a wide range of applications, including drug-eluting stents, prefilled syringes with medications, inhalers with drugs, transdermal patches with therapeutic agents, and more. This article shares new market research.
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New ISO 14644-21:2023 Addresses Reducing Sampling Errors With Airborne Particle Counters
The new ISO 14644 Part 21 addresses optimizing particle counter accuracy in cleanrooms, focusing on reducing sampling error and particle loss. Discussion includes the use of airborne particle counters, tubing, and isokinetic probes.
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Survey Results Show What Could Finally Make Sustainability Stick
Results from BioPlan's "20th Annual Report of Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing and Production" show that lasting sustainability strategies should focus on profitability aspects. That's because, even more than a spirit of stewardship, financial advantages provide a powerful incentive to stick to the plan.
BIOSIMILAR WHITE PAPERS
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Designing Successful Viral Clearance Studies
A review of studies that involve scaling down individual process steps, and for each step, spiking virus into the specific process intermediate, performing the process step, and measuring the remaining virus.
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Outstanding Sensitivity For Confident SPR Interaction Analysis7/20/2022
Explore how surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based analyses with a high sensitivity instrument can provide greater data precision and better confidence in your results interpretation.
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Controlling Trace Impurities In Chemically Defined Media4/10/2023
Discover a novel approach for manufacturing chemically defined media with precision control of trace impurities that utilizes innovative raw material analysis, data analytics, and a proprietary algorithm.
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Regulatory Considerations For Alternative Microbial Methods2/28/2022
We discuss regulatory expectations for the incorporation of alternative methods to prevent, remove, and detect contaminants focusing on comparability and strategies for easier substitution of current methods.
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Secure The Cell Therapy Supply Chain From Bench To Bedside10/4/2021
While current approaches can manage the existing volume of cell therapy shipments, scaling these treatments up and out will increase pressure on cryogenic logistics networks.
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Key Stages In mRNA-Based Therapeutic Development9/13/2022
Learn how planning a product development strategy early on with a technology partner who has deep expertise and technical knowledge of genomic medicines can address uncertainties from the outset.
BIOSIMILAR APP NOTES & CASE STUDIES
- Lipid Nanoparticle Compositional Analysis By UHPLC-CAD
- Apheresis Variability Control In Cell Therapy Manufacturing
- AVROBIO’s Geoff MacKay On Cell & Gene Scalability
- Enabling Bioprocess Control With Successful Automation Strategies
- Capture Of Bispecific Antibodies And Removal Of Product-Related Impurities
BIOSIMILAR DEVELOPMENT CONTENT COLLECTIONS

The debate over whether the biosimilar regulatory paradigm can shift away from comparative efficacy trials has intensified over the past few years. This collection of articles serves as a snapshot of the many different components of this ongoing discussion.
More Content CollectionsBIOSIMILAR DEVELOPMENT NEWS
- Meitheal Announces Exclusive Commercial Licensing Agreement For Insulin Biosimilars In The U.S.
- Alvotech Provides U.S. Regulatory Update On AVT02, A High-Concentration Interchangeable Biosimilar Candidate To Humira® (Adalimumab)
- Abbott Broadens Access To Cutting-Edge Biosimilars In Key Emerging Markets
- Sandoz Receives Positive CHMP Opinion For Breast And Gastric Cancer Biosimilar Trastuzumab
- Rani Therapeutics Initiates Phase 1 Study Of RT-111 (RaniPill® Containing Ustekinumab Biosimilar, CT-P43)
- Interchangeable Biosimilars Market Revenue To Hit USD 65 Billion By 2035, Says Research Nester
- Samsung Bioepis Partners With Sandoz To Commercialize Ustekinumab Biosimilar Candidate
- Sandoz Announces Exclusive Deal To Commercialize Biosimilar ustekinumab, Further Reinforcing Growing Pipeline And Immunology Patient Offering
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