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22 October 2015 | By Masataka Ito, Kiyohiko Sugano and Katsuhide Terada Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toho University
The physicochemical properties of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) are critical to the success of drug development. Most of the APIs in oral solid dosage forms are contained as drug crystals.
22 October 2015 | By John Carpenter, University of Colorado / Amber Haynes, Fradkin KBI Biopharma / Christina Vessely, Biologics Consulting Group Inc.
Quantifying and sizing subvisible particles in biopharmaceutical products are crucial aspects of formulation development, stability studies, process development, product release and extended characterisation of the final drug product.
22 October 2015 | By Claudia Kunz and Henning Gieseler, Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Erlangen
Freeze drying is gaining in importance as the number of biopharmaceuticals that are unstable in a solution increases. According to recent reports, a growth of 10% may be expected for freeze-dried products in the next 10 years. The technique offers the opportunity to gently dry temperature-sensitive drugs such as proteins…
20 October 2015 | By Victoria White
In the run up to ADHD Awareness Week, European Pharmaceutical Review spoke with Tom Croce, Head of Global Patient Advocacy at Shire, to find out more about the awards and what makes Shire a 'patient-centric' company...
16 October 2015 | By David Shore, Pfizer
Counterfeit medicines pose a serious risk to public health around the world. The trade in fake drugs is considerable; according to Pfizer’s own company records, more than 200 million counterfeit doses of Pfizer product have been intercepted since 2004. Meanwhile, the issue of counterfeits has no single or simple solution…
In Issue #4 2015: NGS, Informatics, Spray Drying, Excipients, Rapid Methods, NIR, PAT, Regulatory Insight and much more...
In this NIR In-Depth Focus: Challenges with NIR reflectance measurements of solid pharmaceuticals, Application of NIR spectroscopy in linking velocity profiles of a binary granular system...
In this Informatics In-Depth Focus: Informatics in 2025, Methods for the detection of drug-drug interactions in text & Computational approaches to mutagenicity assessments of impurities: in silico methods...
Historically, the regulation and control of medicinal products has relied on national and supranational guidelines covering good manufacturing practice (GMP). However, the quality of these medicinal products can be adversely affected by a lack of adequate control over the myriad activities that occur during the distribution process. In addition, the…
3 September 2015 | By Joseph W. Wragg and Roy Bicknell, University of Birmingham
Over the past decade significant advances have been made in the fields of genomic and transcriptomic profiling, inspired by the advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS). Yet despite the considerable promise of these new technologies, uptake has been slow. The focus of this review is the use of next-generation transcriptomic analysis…
3 September 2015 | By Yin-Chao Tseng, Boehringer Ingelheim
Amorphous solid dispersions (ASDs) are increasingly being used as a means of improving bioavailability of poorly water-soluble compounds in research and development, and spray drying technology has been recognised as one of the useful methods to generate ASDs.
3 September 2015 | By Benjamin K. Hodnett, Anita R. Maguire, Pat J. Guiry, Ake C. Rasmuson, Brian Glennon and Abina M. Crean - SSPC
The Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC), a global hub of pharmaceutical process innovation and advanced manufacturing, is funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and Industry, and represents a unique collaboration between 22 industry partners, nine research performing organisations and 12 international academic collaborators. It is a €42 million…
3 September 2015 | By Michael J. Miller, PhD Microbiology Consultants, LLC
From 2010 to 2013, European Pharmaceutical Review published a very successful series on rapid microbiological methods (RMM) that included hot topics such as the European Medicines Agency’s and US Food and Drug Administration’s expectations, implementation strategies, scientific principles behind the technologies and validation.
3 September 2015 | By Cenk Undey, Tony Wang, Bryan Looze, Yingying Zheng and Myra Coufal - Amgen
Predictive monitoring is a key feature of biopharmaceutical manufacturing; making predictions about the key process end points such as process performance indicators or quality attributes using a process model offers the unique advantages of process improvement and optimisation, and helps give insights into variability.
3 September 2015 | By Jaume Puig-JunoyPompeu, Fabra University / Beatriz G. Lopez-Valcarcel and Santiago Rodríguez-Feijoó, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
The sudden fall of public revenues after the long-lasting economic crisis that began in 2008 has led many public health systems in European countries to cut public health financing through high copayments or coinsurance rates on drug prescriptions dispensed in pharmacies.
