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Challenges and opportunities in the CGT supply chain
This article explores the unique logistics and supply chain challenges of cell and gene therapy development and the future potential of this innovative sector.
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EPR Podcast 22 – Pharmaceutical packaging – Manu Kittanakere, Gilead
In this podcast, Manu Kittanakere, Associate Director of Packaging Engineering at Gilead discusses the future of pharmaceutical packaging, including the growing importance of AI, automation and sustainability in packaging engineering.
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Cold storage market to value $383bn by 2032
The combination of tech innovation, automation, and sustainability is reshaping the landscape of cold storage solutions, research says.
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Innovative solid-state storage for biologics developed
A new method enabling biological materials to be stored in a solid-state means medicines such as insulin could be administered orally in the future.
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Identifying origin of fungi in cleanrooms
Microbiology expert Tim Sandle’s recent video examined identifying the origin of fungi in pharmaceutical cleanrooms.
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Eli Lilly to help fund cold chain initiative
$1.15m funding from Eli Lilly and Company will support a new cold chain capacity initiative in low- and middle-income countries, to help improve medicine access.
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First needle-free COVID-19 vaccine patch
If successful in further clinical trials an innovative, cost-effective COVID-19 vaccine patch could be available as early as 2025.
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Why real-time environmental monitoring is the most important aspect of the modern pharmaceutical cold chain
Glenn Abood, founder and CEO of rfxcel, explains how real-time environmental monitoring can combat supply chain shortcomings, providing companies with level of data integrity, traceability, transparency and security that is virtually beyond reproach.
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The fundamentals of contemporary supply chain management
Effective supply chain management can cut costs, improve service and enhance company revenues; however, the pharma industry has historically been a slow adopter of leading-edge practices. Nikki Withers discussed the fundamentals of contemporary supply chain management with Ed Sweeney, Professor of Logistics and Systems at Aston University, who believes that…
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Why cold chain requirements are not holding COVID-19 vaccines back
Despite the stringent storage conditions required for Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, the need for a return to normal life has levelled the playing field for all candidate prophylactics against SARS-CoV-2.
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Hackers target COVID-19 vaccine cold chain, IBM finds
A group of hackers has sent phishing emails to various people involved in COVID-19 vaccine cold chain distribution to gain insight, IBM has revealed.
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Pharma cold chain: is our industry ready, willing and scalable?
The pharmaceutical cold chain includes numerous participants – David Lewandowski discusses why this must be scalable to ensure efficient delivery of a COVID-19 vaccine.
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Biopharma increasingly factoring sustainability into cold chain decisions
A survey has found that the biopharma industry is taking sustainability into their cold chain considerations more and more, with 66 percent saying it is very important.
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Thermally-stable TB vaccine developed using new technique
A new process developed by the University of Bath protects a TB antigen and a novel vaccine adjuvant from heat damage.
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Expecting the unexpected in drug formulations
The increasing complexity of formulations and active biological products raises new challenges for pre-filled syringe development. James Mellman, Device Manager at Novartis, speaks to Nikki Withers about the challenges of selecting the right primary packaging for injectable formulations and how he has learnt to expect the unexpected.
