Tag: drug manufacturing

April 9, 2021

Bora Pharmaceutical Laboratories, a division of Bora Pharmaceuticals, has added roller compaction technology to its solid dose capability offerings at its Zhunan, Taiwan contract manufacturing and packaging facility. The Zhunan facility manufacturers complex oral solid dose (OSD) formulations with expertise […]

April 8, 2021

The rising popularity of outsourcing implementations across the healthcare industry due to the benefits such as affordability and less-time consumption will serve as a vital growth prospect for the pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing market during the forecast period of […]

April 5, 2021

Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) today announced that the Company continues to be on track with its manufacturing agreements related to COVID-19 vaccines and confirmed that there are no changes to its financial guidance for 2021. In addition, the Company received […]

March 31, 2021

One of the most important decisions in the history of the Food and Drug Administration is quickly approaching. By early June, the agency should have a verdict on whether to approve aducanumab, a potentially first-of-its-kind treatment for Alzheimer’s disease that […]

March 29, 2021

EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has adopted several important recommendations that will increase manufacturing capacity and supply of COVID-19 vaccines in the EU. New manufacturing site for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine A new manufacturing site has been approved for the production […]

March 17, 2021

With treatments for COVID-19 lacking, researchers are homing in on drugs that are already FDA approved to search for candidates that may inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication. This method, known as repurposing, has found that clofazimine, an anti-leprosy drug, exhibits potent antiviral […]

March 3, 2021

Chondroitin sulfate is an important structural component of cartilage and is naturally found in connective tissues in the human body and in animal cartilage. It is part of a protein molecule that helps give cartilage its elastic properties and is […]

March 2, 2021

For a vaccine to be effective, the components of the disease of interest that provide protection from disease (an antigen) must be incorporated or present in the candidate and induce a strong and appropriate immune response in the vaccine. Viral […]

February 25, 2021

Lyophilization has been popularly employed by the pharmaceuticals industry in parenteral product development. The process has the potential to improve the shelf-life, increase the efficacy of formulations, especially complex injectables, and to make them easier to store and transport. Biopharmaceutical […]

February 3, 2021

Researchers from the Los Angeles-based Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) say they have successfully designed a method for rapid testing large numbers of potential immunotherapy drugs against live tumor cells for accurate and easily analyzable data. They began by […]

February 3, 2021

Immuneering prefers the hum of purposeful activity to mere noise. That helps explain why the company develops drugs to dampen the cacophony of cell signalling known as cancer. To identify drug candidates, Immuneering uses its own Disease Cancelling Technology. Characteristically, […]

January 12, 2021

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is experiencing abrupt and noticeable personnel changes as it continues to clash with the Health and Human Services (HHS), the department that oversees the agency and its operations. As reported in POLITCO, the […]