Australian proteomics fluorescence expert Fluorotechnics has
acquired ETC Elektrophorese-Technik to gain access to the company's
electrophoresis expertise and product lines.
Pfizer has shunned a more traditional approach to data management
outsourcing by slashing its vendors to a handful and standardising
them under the one business model.
US firm Fullscope has announced the availability of a new software
and services package to help pharmaceutical and life science
companies achieve and maintain US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) validation.
US-based Blue Mountain has launched an integrated, comprehensive
software package to help life sciences companies manage their
assets, cutting out the need for individual software.
Tocris, a leading supplier of chemicals, peptides and antibodies to
the major pharmaceutical companies, universities and research
institutes has completed a $40m (€30.8m) management buy out (MBO)
from its founders.
Drug manufacturers have moved towards centralised data and
information management, following a trend to prevent human errors
and time-consuming tasks in response to increasing regulatory
requirements.
Before deciding what part of a clinical trial to outsource, one of
the most important things a sponsor should do is define its core
competencies and then outsource accordingly.
The necessity for drug manufacturers to comply with increasingly
rigorous regulations is driving laboratory information management
systems (LIMS) growth, according a new study.
Agilent Technologies has chosen Distek to be its number-one
provider for dissolution instrumentation service in North America
under its Lab Resource Management (LRM) programme.
When it comes to managing an early phase research and clinical
development programme, drug companies have three choices - each
with their own pros and cons.
As the bio-outsourcing market hits boom time, the number of
contract biomanufacturing organisations (CBMOs) that specialise in
the production of biopharma products, is rapidly expanding.
PPD International has launched a new software system that it claims
can speed up the review time of safety and endpoint-driven data
from large-scale clinical trials or registries.
French Healthcare logistics firm DGX Pharma has won a new
multi-year contract from Japan's Sankyo Pharma to provide logistics
and distribution services for its drug products in the French
market.
The pharmaceutical and life sciences industries are flushed with
quality IT services, with eight companies that have a specialist
life science/pharmaceutical focus being featured in the top 20 of
the first-ever listing of the world's...
Pharmaceutical wholesalers in Europe need to evolve to meet the
changing pharma market and a world of opportunity awaits for those
willing to think beyond their traditional business model and move
to compete in the outsourcing arena.
Packaging pre-production specialist, Esko has launched a new
programme that it claims will streamline the pharma packaging
process and bring new products to market up to 40 per cent faster.
UK-based Malvern Instruments has been busy streamlining its
particle characterisation contract testing services at its global
locations, with the latest reshuffle taking place in France.
No company likes to hire and fire unnecessarily. When used
correctly, outsourcing can be the key to maintaining the proper
balance of fixed and variable staffing and allow the right staffing
resources to be rapidly shifted to the...
Dutch life science firm PharmaCell has hired quality control
specialist Sensitech for the cold chain management of their cell
culture products, allowing it to ensure compliance with GMP
regulations.
A technology partnership between ARTEL and Caliper Life Sciences
aims to enhance automated liquid delivery standards improving
laboratory data integrity. The collaboration aims to manufacture
technology to a level that is outlined...
Degussa is streamlining its organization and decreasing the number
of business units from 20 to 17, in order to compete in the global
markets and be in a better position to exploit growth
opportunities.
Malvern Instruments and Leeds University have formed a long-term
partnership to launch 'IntelliSense,' - a programme that will help
to deliver the next generation of sensors and control solutions,
creating opportunities...
A major food equipment manufacturer has announced plans to expand
into pharmaceutical equipment and processing, following its
purchase from Italian owners CIR last month.
Agilent Technologies is to acquire SSI in a move that will combine
the former's analytical instrumentation, data systems and services
with SSI's strong position in chromatographic data systems and
informatics.
German informatics firm LION bioscience is to sell its
bioinformatics business, in a move that reflects its ongoing
restructuring plans that has previously seen an employee cut of at
least 50 per cent.
UK-based separations specialist Whatman has fleshed out its plans
in the wake of the acquisition of Schleicher & Schuell, and
says it plans to cut 13 per cent of its workforce after 2004 sales
disappointed.
Medivative Technologies, a contract manufacturing and process
engineering services supplier to the life sciences and medical
device industries, has just been cleared for operations by the US
Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
BASF says it has entered into a multi-million pound management
buyout deal for its specialist pharmaceutical ingredients
manufacturing business at Cramlington in Northumberland, UK.
Ashland of the US has signed an agreement to sell the ingestibles
line of business of Ashland Distribution - which includes
pharmaceutical actives and excipients and food and beverage
additives - to Japan's Mitsubishi Corp.
Belgian pharmaceutical and chemicals company UCB, fresh from its
€2.25 billion acquisition of UK biotech Celltech, has divested its
films business in a move that takes it another step closer to
becoming a biopharmaceutical pure-play.
A number of senior executives at microfluidics and lab automation
specialist Caliper Technologies are leaving the company in a
reorganisation aimed at cutting costs and breaking even in cash
flow terms in 2005.
Tecan UK has launched a new plate-handling add-on for its Aquarius
multi-channel pipetting system that should increase the throughput
of the device, which is used for applications such as assay
development and drug screening.
Rhodia has revealed the extent of job cuts that will take place in
the wake of its restructuring exercise, initiated in response to
the financial pressures facing the chemicals group.
New software promises to integrate data from the quality control
laboratory with systems monitoring production processes to allow
operators to respond swiftly to any problems encountered.
The speakers at next month's Manufacturing Excellence Ireland
meeting, focusing on automation and control in the pharmaceutical
industry, have been announced.
A new report from Best Practices provides a view of how the top
pharma firms manage their quality control to reduce manufacuring
costs and production time.
As regulators increase their scrutiny of manufacturing and quality
control, the key to avoiding non-compliance notices lies in
well-trained, knowledgeable personnel, says new report.
Ireland's QUMAS has said it will launch its latest regulatory
compliance product, QUMAS Visa, at the 39th Annual Meeting of the
Drug Information Association in San Antonio, Texas, 15-19 June.
Danish Novo Nordisk plans to break ground on a €10 million
expansion of its insulin manufacturing facility in Clayton, US. The
company has awarded the contract to BE&K Engineering and Suitt
Construction for the 19,000-square-foot...
