Chris Spivey

Government provides a spoonful of sugar, and genuine leadership, for good medicines.

Drug efficacy, reputation, and financial return are all on the line when it comes to fill/finish.

If the Alliance for mRNA Medicines (AMM) tested the waters in June 2023 at the BIO Conference in Boston, then they engaged in a full-fledged triathlon in September, in the heat and humidity of Washington, DC.

Extensive research on various gene editing techniques could inform the future of mRNA therapies.

Experts discuss the promise of personalized cancer vaccines through the inherent nimbleness of mRNA platform.

Highlights from a wide ranging discussion on COVID-19 pandemic response from Kate Broderick, Chief Innovation Officer at Maravai LifeSciences, and Tom Madden, President & CEO at Acuitas Therapeutics.

Burgeoning CGT modalities bring promise and challenges.

mRNA may be a modality whose chief advances are yet to come.

The prestigious award, worth €20,000 (US$22,000), goes to Maurice Michel of the Science for Life Laboratory at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Chris Spivey, editorial director, speaks with Sean Hart, CEO and SCO of LumaCyte, on percent transduction for AAV measured.

World leaders have set ambitious goals to respond more swiftly to the next pandemic, including the US goal to design, test, and review a new vaccine just 100 days after a pandemic declaration.

BIO is a powerful business development conference that can help make a lot of deals become reality.

The collaboration between Samsung Biologics and Pfizer will focus on long-term biosimilars manufacturing.

Vaccine nationalism strengthens viruses and poses deadly risks for all involved.

In this episode of Drug Digest, Pharmaceutical Technology editors discuss the advantages and savings that continuous manufacturing may offer as well as the very real obstacles that might make a fully continuous process not feasible, especially in biologics manufacturing.

Sean Hart, CEO and SCO of LumaCyte, discusses rapid accurate mRNA potency assay possibilities.

Jane True, vice-president of mRNA Commercial Strategy & Innovation and Global Pandemic Security Lead, Pfizer, shares her perspective on how mRNA will shift commercial models in the pharmaceutical industry.

Lives are saved when time from vein to vein decreases.

Nicole Lewis, PVP Program Manager at Boston Children's Hospital, discusses the science behind precision vaccines, a form of personalized vaccines.

Marcel Baumann, business development director at Recipharm, discusses soft mist inhaler technology from the show floor at the World Vaccine Conference.

What can we take away from Pfizer's acquisition of Seagen?

Decreasing vein to vein time saves lives.

Variability instills consistency in advanced therapy medicinal products.

This new pioneering phase of mRNA is loaded with potential, but also obstacles and false dawns.

This compilation allows readers to adjust their thinking to appreciate the full impact certain select technologies will make on the industry by 2026.

Coverage of COVID-19 vaccines was surprisingly displaced by this year’s astounding oncology and iconoclastic gene therapy “cures.”

mRNA may not be a train we necessarily all need to get onboard immediately, but we should know where the central train station is located, and what it connects us to.

Content is king in publishing, but interpretation is imperator.

One can only learn the secrets of "fight club" by attending its meetings.

More than anything else MonkeyPox and COVID-19 have shown that we are interdependent, no matter what continent you call home.