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Welcome to Week Two of the Festival of Pharma! In this podcast, Informa Markets Senior Content Producer, Diana Castro Sandoval, and Pharma Editor, Gareth Carpenter, reveal what's coming up on Day Six including a must-see keynote address from former FDA...

The CPHI Festival of Pharma is well underway! Tune into this podcast in which Informa Markets Head of Pharma Content, Tara Dougal, and Pharma Editor, Gareth Carpenter review some of the highlights of the first few days as well as a preview of what's co...

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Evive’s F-627 candidate has shown promising results after several phase three clinical trials, CEO Liu Jubo says

Amgen’s second best-seller Neulasta, whose patent expired five years ago, generated US$3.2 billion of sales in 2019

As one of the fastest-growing economies in the Middle East region, Qatar is home to several industries that catalyze change and supply raw material for diverse products that form a major part of Qatar’s exports, thereby augmenting the nation’s economic...

Join us this Friday for the opening of our new formulation and sterile fill-finish facility with a digital open house from 1:00 to 2:00 pm EDT. Join key members of Alcami's operational and commercial leadership teams to learn about our newest faci...

Sign-up below to be part of an open house with key members of Alcami's operational and commercial leadership teams for sterile fill-finish manufacturing services on October 9. 

Recipharm, a leading contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) has entered into an agreement with Arcturus Therapeutics, a leading U.S. based clinical-stage messenger RNA medicines company focused on the development of infectious disea...

The two suites, established with VMIC equipment and operated by Oxford Biomedica, will be operating at 1000-L scale.

Flexible support system simplifies and secures tubing paths for biopharmaceutical manufacturers.

"Exploring life to improve living" is the title of the webinar that Gnosis by Lesaffre has organized to reveal the fully integrated brand to everyone.

BIA Separations will be Sartorius's center of excellence for purification of cell and gene therapeutics.

Immunity is a big concern for everyone for years, but today, it is one of the most important health concerns for consumers. This structural trend on immunity results in growth of products launched with an immune health claim1.

The new number of Quatrefolic® Science UP, dedicated to fertility and the critical role of folate and homocysteine in the early stages of human reproduction, has been just released.

Scancell’s DNA vaccine could provide long-lasting immunity against COVID-19 by generating protection against this and new strains of coronavirus.

The CPHI Festival of Pharma has finally opened up! Tune into this podcast in which Informa Markets Head of Pharma Content, Tara Dougal, and Pharma Editor, Gareth Carpenter outline the rich content that is available to registrants on the first day of th...

Ingredients are the lifeblood of the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries. They connect today’s cutting-edge medicine and consumer products makers with their origins in the chemicals sector of the late nineteenth century. While ingredients play ...

Catalent, the leading global provider of advanced delivery technologies, development, and manufacturing solutions for drugs, biologics, cell and gene therapies, and consumer health products, today announced the launch of its new OneXpress™ service for ...

Catalent, the leading global provider of advanced delivery technologies, development, and manufacturing solutions for drugs, biologics, gene therapies, and consumer health products, today announced it is to invest $9 million in a new clinical supply fa...

Catalent today welcomed the news from Nocion Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing novel small molecule charged sodium channel blockers, that its first patient has been dosed with NOC-100, an inhaled formula of its NTX-1175 small m...

Catalent today announced that it is investing $130 million to add five additional Phase 3 through commercial-scale manufacturing suites to its gene therapy campus in Harmans, Maryland.

SGD Pharma has expanded its ready-to-use (RTU) molded glass vial range to introduce a market-first 50ml volume option in tray developed at introduce a market-first 50ml volume option in tray developed at industrial scale by a molded glass manufact...

9/10/2020  - Bantec Sanitizing has engaged Chem Flowtronics to produce sanitizer blending machines for national distribution.

2/18/2019 - Chem Flowtronics signs agreement with Novartis providing exclusive manufacturing rights for a propriet...

ZIM Laboratories Limited (ZIM) announced that it has filed the regulatory dossier for approval of Rizatriptan orally dissolving film in Europe.Rizatriptan orally dissolving film is a product developed using our Thinoral® technology which yields instant...

Portuguese pharma company, BIAL, and global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), Recipharm, have expanded a long-term agreement for the global manufacturing and supply of BIAL’s proprietary molecule opicapone.

Ahead of the world’s largest ever virtual pharma expo – the CPHI Festival of Pharma – Informa Markets spoke with Ramesh Subramanian, Chief Commercial Officer at GVK BIO on how they are preparing for the event.

COVID-19 has significantly disrupted the global supply chain and directly affected companies involved in the storage of goods. The pandemic has also led to several major developments in the warehousing sector. This article looks at some of these develo...

Georgia is a rapidly developing country with a unique location at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia and a population of 3.71 million. COREX Logistics has been working in Georgia since 2016 — one of our state-of-the-art warehouses is loc...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on all aspects of the logistics market. Air transportation of clinical supplies is no exception. While the coronavirus outbreak created an additional demand for vital medical supplies to be shipped ...

Warminster, PA – October 28 – SP Industries, Inc. (“SP”), a leading designer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, pharmaceutical fill-finish manufacturing solutions, laboratory supplies and glassware, announced today that it h...

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The Alliance will jointly design and market products and services related to medical devices, cosmetics and food supplementsThe Alliance will be a leader in the Healthcare Consulting sector in this area. 

Azierta and CPQ ingenieros have decided to sign a strategic alliance in order to combine the experience and knowledge of both firms. In this way, they will have a joint offer at a consultancy level for the design of installations in pharmaceu...

Sterling Pharma Solutions has acquired the Alcami facility in Germantown, Wisconsin, US.  

Swedish life science company, Sobrera Pharma, and global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), Recipharm, have entered into an agreement for the formulation development and manufacturing of SO-001, a new oral treatment for Alcohol...

Pharmaceutical Technologies | Corning Incorporated | May 28, 2020Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced the execution of a long-term purchase and supply agreement for Corning Valor® Glass.

New manufacturing capacity will allow Corning to meet increased regional and global demand for high-quality glass tubing
Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today announced a joint venture (JV) agreement with Bengbu Innovation Venture Capital Co. Ltd. ...

Pharmaceutical Technologies | Corning Incorporated | June 09, 2020Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today announced it will receive $204 million from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Office of the Assistant...

The Informa Markets team recently spoke with Tom Ongena, sales director Europe at Sirio Europe about his expectations for the first ever CPHI Festival of Pharma, what he is seeing in the industry and how the CDMO is approaching the virtual event.

Hydroxypropyl Betadex can improve the physicochemical properties of β - carotene

Sterling has launched its multi-million-pound Material Science Centre at its headquarters in Dudley, Northumberland, UK.

Betadex sulfobutyl ether sodium can play a good role in medicine

Betadex Sulfobutyl Ether Sodium promotes the development of new drug voriconazole eye drops

Carboxymethyl beta cyclodextrin sodium salt

Hovione announced the signing of a partnership agreement with Ligand to significantly ramp up the production output of Captisol®

Hovione announced today the appointment of Dr. Jean-Luc Herbeaux as Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective May 1st, 2020.

Inspection conducted remotely using video-conferencing and an online private document sharing platform.

Hugh Purity New England's solution can utilize other vendors' components and can be implemented directly into any process.

Up to 500 doses of vaccine to be placed on a single wafer-thin and stored for extended periods of time.

Abdi İbrahim, Turkey’s leading pharmaceutical company having built the largest biotechnological manufacturing facility of the country, entered a strategic partnership with the Icelandic pharmaceutical company Alvotech to manufacture and launch biot...

Abdi İbrahim, operating in the pharmaceuticals industry for the last 108 years, and the consecutive market leader in the last 18, took part in a Swiss joint venture that acquired OM Pharma, a 83-year pharma company based in Switzerland, one of the l...

The new centre will allow the company to improve efficiencies and reduce overall manufacturing time.

Novel therapy developed by Australian biotech company, Ena Respiratory, shown to significantly reduce COVID-19 virus levels in the nose and throat.

Survey results reveal 84% of the industry is actively searching for new partners.

Evonik launches RESOMER® Precise platform of custom functional excipients to precisely control the release profile of parenteral drug products

With our innovative enzymatic platform, we've been changing the game for sustainable antibiotics and statins production, step by step.

Patients suffering from chronic and acute pain disorders will benefit from a convenient, discreet, and easy-to-use device delivering a novel alternative to opioid-based pain management.

To master logistic challenges even during the coronavirus crisis, va-Q-tec started a unique partnership with DSV and United Airlines. The cooperation ensures one of the most important transport routes for the regular transport of blood plasma despite l...

Doubling our API capacity to meet the growing demand

With a turnover of 441 million Euro in 2019 and 2,000 employees in Italy and abroad, Marchesini Group is a flagship of the Packaging Valley in Emilia Romagna and one of the top four worldwide manufacturers of automatic pharmaceutical and cosmetic packa...

New scientific research, published in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, highlights the benefits of Bioiberica’s native (undenatured) type II collagen (b-2Cool®) in combination with other key ingredients for joint health: chondroitin sulphate, glucosamin...

Ingredients are the lifeblood of the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries. They connect today’s cutting-edge medicine and consumer products makers with their origins in the chemicals sector of the late nineteenth century. While ingredients...

Korean pharmaceutical firm HK inno.N Corp. said on Friday that its gastroesophageal reflux disease drug K-CAB has been approved by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, marking the first time for the company to launch an independently-developed novel d...

Appearing in the September 2020 edition of Tablets & Capsules, this article summarizes a method for rapid and accurate determination of API concentration in the fill of soft gelatin capsules while little or no sample preparation. Applying chemometric m...

Samyang Biopharm USA, Inc. (https://us.samyangbiopharm.com) a global biotech subsidiary of the Samyang Pharmaceuticals Corp. (https://samyangbiopharm.com/eng), announced today that the company has entered into a worldwide licensing agreement with CanCu...

Samyang Biopharm USA has licensed in Belgium’s Talix Therapeutics’ first-in-class immuno-oncology compound for global rights.

Bushu Pharma – a leading CDMO in Japan – is investing USD100 million over the next five years to expand its footprint and services, helping the company better respond to the requirements of its customers.

Daewoong Pharmaceutical has signed a deal worth $50 million to supply Mexico’s Moksha8 with gastric acid blocker Fexuprazan. Given the local authorities' approval plan, Moksha8 aims to launch Fexuprazan in the second half of 2022.

Ypsomed has developed the world’s first zero carbon emission prefilled autoinjector. The YpsoMate Zero is based on the proven YpsoMate autoinjector platform that offers convenient handling and patient safety. The new YpsoMate Zero uses alterna...

In February 2020, Recipharm acquired Consort Medical plc, which included Bespak. The move was designed to strengthen Recipharm’s position as a leading inhalation company and one of the largest CDMOs in the world.

CycloLab, being involved in the fight, manufactures the critical excipient: sulfobutyl-ether-BCD (SBECD, Dexolve™) that enables Remdesivir to work. The unexpected and sudden outbreak along with the quick spread of the coronavirus-disease and rapid incr...

The companies will commercialize six new biosimilar candidates addressing multiple therapeutic areas.

Please find company brochure attached that includes the ultra pure specification

Expanded CRO services to support biotechs and mid-sized pharma companies across trials in more than 40 countries.

The targeted removal of one particular bacterial species from the skin microbiome, while preserving the beneficial ones, represents a new way to treat atopic dermatitis.

The second in a quarterly series of blog posts about responsible supply chain management from the PSCI Chair, Caroline O'Brien

Catalent to manufacture clinical batches of T-knife's platform process for TCR-based cell therapy at its site in Gosselies, Belgium, for European trials in 2021.

Clients set to benefit immediately through "higher yields" and "improved potent handling".

Novel, plasmid-free manufacturing system reduces the cost of goods and improves AAV quality to enable development of safer gene therapies.

Several ongoing development programs are dedicated to the manufacturing of orphan drugs intended for both US and European patients. Skyepharma team is proud to work on orphan drugs development projects.

R&D : Mechanical resistance of pharmaceutical press coated tablets (tab-in-tab): characterization and link with material and process parameters.

Vildagliptin & Metformin(50+850 mg), (50+1000 mg) Film Coated Tablets Reference Product: Eucreas® / Novartis 

Ertapenem 1gPowder for concentrate for solution for infusion
Reference Product: Invanz® / MSD

Isavuconazole 200mg Powder for concentrate for solution for infusion
Reference Product: Cresemba® / Basilea Pharmaceutica (Pfizer)

Brivaracetam 10mg/ml (5ml Vial) Solution for Injection/Infusion
Reference Product: Briviact® / UCB

Lacosamide 10mg/ml (20ml Vial)Solution for Infusion
Reference Product: Vimpat® / UCB

We’re kicking off the opening of our new, 32,000 sq. ft formulation and sterile fill-fill finish facility with a digital open house on October 9 from 1:00-2:00 pm EDT. We have a range of technical experts as our speakers including Maria Lacou...

This month we launch our multi-million-pound Material Science Centre, home to our Solid State specialists, as well as our new milling, micronisation and solid state chemistry services. Here, the team introduce themselves and share a little more ab...

Supplied globally under the Embocaps® by Suheung brand, the Embocaps® LP+ is a hard capsule specifically designed to hold liquids and fine powders. The Embocaps® LP+ is available in multiple gelatin, vegetarian and relayed release formulations.

Suheung Co., Ltd. today announces the opening of their new EMBO CAPS® VG-ALPHA capsule facility located in the Long Thanh Industrial Zone (Dong Nai Province), Vietnam. Exclusively a vegetarian capsule facility, the new factory will supply capsules...

EmboCaps® by Suheung announces today that the China DMF filing for Empty Hard Gelatin Capsule(F20190000400) successfully completed on December 30, 2019

Suheung Co., Ltd. announces today that the China DMF filing for it’s EMBOCAPS ® Empty Hard HPMC Capsules has been successfully submitted and received its DMF filing acceptance notice / Pre-assigned DMF Number F20190000399.

Getinge launches the DPTE® Transfer Trolley – a smart, mobile transfer platform for use with all standard DPTE® Beta solutions for moving materials into and out of a confined zone without breaking containment or sterility. Its ergonomic, ...

The serialization system allows the verification of a drug's compliance from the distribution to the delivery then to the patient. This article explains the serialization and aggregation implemented at Skyepharma.

Skyepharma is a full CDMO. We have an analytical service that covers all aspects from development to manufacturing. Packaging, raw materials and finished products are all controlled by this service.

Skyepharma has extended its serialisation and aggregation service to ‘hard to reach’ countries like Russia and Brazil. We are now able to offer serialized and aggregated supplies to Russia.

This article describes the robustness of Skyepharma's supply chain. The delivery of our products has not been impacted during this COVID-19 pandemic. Discover how!

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announced the opening of its new Bioprocessing Collaboration Center (BCC) in St. Louis, Missouri.

Countries in the GCC have been concentrating their efforts to develop and grow their healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors as an integral part of a ten-year vision to diversify the region’s economy and reduce its dependency on crude oil. While th...

Acquisition will add Trodelvy, a first-in-class antibody-drug conjugate approved to treat breast cancer.

Due to begin operations in late September, the US TEC will bring value-added laboratory services to the heart of the biotech community.

Discover our new Dexamethasone sodium phosphate in syrup 2mg/5ml

Treatment of chronic, accasional or medication induced constipation.Pack: stick pack & jar
Fill: 5g - 10g- 200g

Discover Hyaluronic Acid in Pre-Filled syringes & glass vials

SGD Pharma today announces the launch of its new full packaging solution dedicated to the cannabidiol (CBD) oil market. Combining the company’s extensive pharmaceutical packaging expertise with the need for compliant, safe packaging for CBD oils, ...

Procare Health makes its way into the health sector with a gel to treat and prevent a disease that affects mainly women

Humanigen's proprietary monoclonal antibody may prevent and treat cytokine storm, which is believed to trigger the acute respiratory distress syndrome in severe cases of COVID-19.

The NevoLine Upstream platform has been designed to address the needs of gene therapy and vaccine innovators and CDMOs for robust and cost-effective upstream viral vectors manufacturing.

Decision clears legal pathway to expand access for patients living with multiple sclerosis in markets across Europe.

U.S. Patent No. 10,632,076 B2 further strengthens Fertin Pharma’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio

Peter Halling has been appointed CEO of Fertin Pharma as of August 2020.

Together, the companies will aim to put forward new research projects against infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance, potentially creating new therapies and technologies.

After achieving carbon neutrality in 2014, Biogen further bolsters its action against climate change with the goal to become fossil fuel free by 2040.

This preview from BioPlan Associates for the CPHI Festival of Pharma from 5-16 October, includes a summary of global trends and growth opportunities in biopharmaceutical product development and manufacturing and how the growth of domestic Mab pipelines...

When western companies have established themselves in their regions, the Asian markets hold opportunities for their business expansion. In there, Japan is a one of prime targets for these expanding companies. However, launching into an unfamiliar marke...

We have been committed to increasing the adoption of Green Chemistry principles in our process development. Joining the ACS-GCIPR will allow us to interact with large pharma and other CDMOs to further share and develop best practices in Green c...

Following a string of wins over the past year, our Bidar manufacturing facility achieved another success to its credit - this time for excellence in energy management

The Vision Robot Unit will provide biopharma companies with a fully automatized, highly accurate and flexible inspection system equipped with artificial intelligence for a variety of drug products, for increased operational efficiency.

The global pandemic continues to impact lots of industries and slow down business, but the pharma and packaging industries are striving to tackle new challenges to bring more faster and safer solutions to deliver medication to patients. The Pharmapack ...

Pharmapack Europe, the leading conference & exhibition in pharma packaging & drug delivery business traded the successful 2020 edition at the beginning of February. The innovation gallery, as the key feature of this event, has gathered the most recent ...