The synthetic biology company which specializes in producing ingredients for plant-inspired medicines has a pilot-scale manufacturing facility in the works.
Sited in Pennsylvania, the excipients specialist’s new facility reportedly will work toward advancing drug delivery research and boosting speed to market.
According to the study, the country’s overreliance on pharmaceutical ingredients manufactured in overseas factories threatens national security and health.
The head of small-molecule business for the pharma solutions specialist talks about obstacles, and how companies can work to clear them for future success.
Spheryx, Inc. has been awarded a $1.5m grant over two years to support modifications to the company’s propriety protein aggregation detection and monitoring technology.
The European Medicines Agency has approved a new tablet formulation of Esbriet (pirfenidone), which Roche says reduces pill-load and increases dosing flexibility for patients with a rare lung disease.
Rentschler Biotechnologie has announced a strategic alliance with Leukocare through which the CDMO hopes to emphasize drug formulation as a “key success factor” in drug development.
The pharma industry could learn valuable lessons from the aerospace and automotive industries when it comes to designing new products, according to Swiss researchers.
Pharma firms developing inhalable drugs often fail to test that their formulations are compatible with their intended delivery devices early enough according to the Intertek team behind research stressing the benefits of early assessment.
Changing pills to a more user-friendly formulation can increase patient compliance, brand loyalty, and extend IP exclusivity, says CMO Hermes in an exclusive podcast.
The Natoli Engineering Company has opened an pharmaceutical research institute to look for answers to enduring formulation problems in solid oral dosage.
Colorcon will buy Indian group Pharmaceuitcal Coatings to expand both its tablet film coating business and presence in “rapidly growing” pharmaceutical market.
Colorcon has acquired excipient business NP Pharm, adding sugar spheres to its portfolio and production capacity that will become “an integral part” of its manufacturing network.
The new AccuSpray spray gun can reduce the amount of magnesium
stearate that pharmaceutical firms require during drug manufacture,
according to developer Oystar Manesty.
UK-based firm BioProgress has developed novel tablet cores that
mean pills which were previously very difficult to coat can be
reformulated and easily coated using the company's innovative
TabWrap technology.
Abbott's Kaletra, the biggest-selling drug of a class of HIV
medications known as protease inhibitors, has won the thumbs up
from the European Commission with a melt extrusion formulation
which enhances solubility, requires fewer...
UK company CI Electronics is rolling out a new tablet and capsule
weighing system, the SADE SP, in North America via local
distributor AC Compacting, reports Phil Taylor.
A UK-based company has become the first to offer a blister
packaging product for pharmaceuticals that meets the BS 8404
standard, which covers packs that are child-resistant but also
allow easy access for the elderly and others who...
