13.09.2019
- Abbvie takes over Allergan, Pfizer merges its generics business with Mylan, Takeda integrates Shire — the pharmaceutical industry is making a name for itself in 2019 with several...
13.09.2019
- Outsourcing product development and manufacturing has become for many pharmaceutical and biotech companies a strategic activity and an integral part of their business model. In...
10.09.2019
- Modern therapies of different diseases very often utilize drugs derived from living cells. However, manufacturing of these biopharmaceutical products is a complex process. One of...
10.09.2019
- The quality specifications of biopharmaceuticals are enormous and require a long list of time-consuming analytics. A big disadvantage of these analytics so far was, that their...
10.09.2019
- Is it possible to learn from other industries or are we doomed to repeat the same mistakes in the pharma sector? Not long ago, I came across a Forbes article which described how...
09.09.2019
- Peptides make up around 8% of all active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). Those molecules are short polymers formed from the linking of ≤100 amino acids. They comprise some of...
09.09.2019
- Meat produced from cell cultures (i.e., cultured meat) rather than whole animals may be a solution to the problems surrounding our current livestock production system, but it is...
09.09.2019
- The Together for Sustainability (TFS) initiative was launched in 2011 as a joint program of chemical companies for sustainable supply chains. Its goal is to develop and implement a...
