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Innovation in pharma manufacturing quality systems

16 November 2022 | By

Over the last 10 years, there has been an important change of focus in pharma towards biotech products and personalised therapies. These important new treatments are now emerging into manufacturing, with implications for the way that quality is monitored, managed and assured. Dr Eduard Cayón sets out some practical advice.

GAMP 5 update: computerized system expectations for pharma manufacturers

16 November 2022 | By , ,

The International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering’s GAMP® 5 guidelines steer validation practices for pharma companies to meet computerized system expectations. Members of the GAMP steering committees, Lorrie Schuessler, Charlie Wakeham and Stephen Ferrell, share the some of the key changes in the second edition update and how these should be…

Putting complex medicines under the microscope

10 November 2022 | By , ,

The biological characterisation of complex medicines like nucleic acid therapeutics and antibody-drug conjugates is important to understand their biodistribution and cellular delivery. Here, Isabel Peset, Lorna FitzPatrick and Martin Main from Medicines Discovery Catapult discuss the potential for using advanced light microscopy techniques.

Solving the taxing problems of taxanes?

4 November 2022 | By

Could the new wave of taxane chemotherapies succeed where traditional chemotherapies have failed? Colin Freund, Chief Executive Officer of Modra Pharmaceuticals, reveals the benefits of this emerging generation of anticancer treatment.