Patheon opens new drug development suite

By Gareth Macdonald

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Patheon hopes that a new pharmaceutical development services (PDS) suite at its facility in Whitby, Ontario will complete its “Quick to Clinic” offering and provide a rapid-response means of making solid dosage forms for trials.

The 2,500 square foot unit will house good manufacturing practice (GMP) compliant production lines capable of making drug supplies for Phase I and II clinical trials. The facility will also provide early-phase manufacturing capacity in the 1kg to 10kg range.

The PDS also houses multiple laboratory units capable of carrying out small scale dosage testing, powder-in-bottle manufacture, as well as tablet, capsule, oral dosage and nasal spray development.

A statement issued by PDS' vice president, Colin Minchom, detailed some of the unit’s potential advantages. He singled out the PDS’ “rapid response capabilities​” as being a feature that will: “significantly strengthen Patheon’s competitiveness in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology early development area​.”

Patheon’s president of North American operations, Terry Novak, added the firm “is committed to investing in its development services business and with this new capacity in Whitby; we can now offer rapid early phase development to our North American customers.”

Further evidence of Patheon’s efforts to develop its offering emerged earlier this month when the firm opened a new intermediate scale processing suite (ISPS) at its plant in Cincinnati, US.

In contrast with the PDS, the ISPS will focus on helping drugmakers to scale-up processes according to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quality by design (QbD) principles.

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