Biopharmaceutical Analysis

Understanding the influence of change events on product performance is a necessity to routine drug development, transfer, and validation.

The use of commercially available media to achieve high titer in early process development is discussed.

The author discusses the various ways in which a quality-by-design program can enhance the extractable and leachable assessment of a drug product.

New drugs submitted for approval in Europe have 18 months to comply with new elemental impurities guidelines.

A new study conducted by the National Institutes of Health found that a certain vector used in gene therapy (and its insertion site in the genome) may be associated with an increased risk of liver cancer.

USP establishes Jan. 1, 2018 as the implementation date for its elemental impurities guidelines for existing drugs.

Understanding and preventing protein aggregation is crucial to ensuring product quality and patient safety.

Ligand-binding assays are fundamental to characterizing biosimilars.

The authors review efforts to limit polymer degradation without significantly impeding cell growth.

MedicalRF.com/Science Photo Library-ANDRZEJ WOJCICKI/Henrik Jonsson/Stocktrek Images; Dan Ward

The use of orthogonal methods to SEC is discussed and examples are presented showing how analytical ultracentrifugation, AF4, and SEC compare in aggregate quantitation.

Defining critical parameters and processing large quantities of data can be a challenge.

The ability to define a scientifically justified and statistically sound sampling procedure is a fundamental skill in modern systematic drug development.

A quality-by-design approach that defines potential viral contaminants of source materials can be used to achieve viral clearance.

Adding light scattering to size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) can maximize the benefits of SEC.

A Q&A on bioanalytical method integrity with Roger Hayes of MPI Research.

Design space generation is encouraged in new product development.

Methods must be suitable at each development phase, robust, and effective on multiple platforms.

Advanced analytical methods are speeding up the targeted evaluation of potential viral contaminants.

Development and validation of two pivotal assays for in-vitro comparability testing of insulin biosimilars.

An automated analytical method determines the purity of chromogenic, fluorescently tagged proteins or metal-bound proteins.

Industry players form Allotrope Foundation to solve analytical data management problems.

Data analytic strategies can help companies capitalize on personalized medicine.

Light scattering analysis combined with more rapid size exclusion chromatography improves protein characterization.

Genia's DNA-sequencing platform will strengthen Roche's pipeline.