Manufacturing

Focused around Purdue University’s LyoHUB, a new blueprint aims to bring innovation to equipment and processes. One goal? Continuous freeze drying.

Shingrix represents a new, possibly better alternative to existing treatments.

The agency is looking for industry input on best practices for continuous manufacturing.

Catalent and US WorldMeds have entered into an agreement for the commercial manufacture of lofexidine, a drug used to alleviate opioid withdrawal symptoms.

Modeling tools help process engineers optimize a biopharmaceutical facility’s capacity.

Single-use and single-pass TFF devices are facilitating advances in biopharma manufacturing.

Choosing a suitable material for fill/finish containers begins during the product development stage.

Internet of Things, advanced analytics, and blockchain solutions such as smart contracts promise to give manufacturers more control over products and supply chains.

The control of biologics microbiological impurities, contaminants, and mimetics is evolving.

Protecting against microbiological contaminationover the whole manufacturing process grows increasingly important.

The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering announced the release of ISPE GAMP Good Practice Guide: IT Infrastructure Control and Compliance (Second Edition).

An FDA evaluation concluded that Corden Pharma Latina’s corrective actions addressed the concerns in an FDA warning letter.

The International Society of Automation (ISA) and Siemens entered a global partnership to increase awareness of industrial cybersecurity needs and standards.

FDA approves Novartis’ CAR-T therapy, marking the first time a cell therapy based on gene transfer has been approved in the United States for any indication.

The acquisition of Protein Sciences, a vaccines biotechnology company, strengthens Sanofi’s influenza vaccines portfolio.

FDA halts unproved stem-cell cancer treatments administered to California patients, which was derived from a commercially unavailable military-grade vaccine.

FDA noted in a recent inspection that US Stem Cell Clinic was processing and administering stem cell treatments that were neither reviewed nor approved by the agency.

The generic pharmaceuticals firm has sold its Baddi, India formulations manufacturing facility following a recent fire at its joint-venture plant in Algeria.

Laboratory tests can determine critical cleaning parameters for passivation treatments used to prevent rouge on GMP stainless-steel equipment.

Ajinomoto Althea’s Optima VFVM 7000 aseptic fill/finish line supports a range of drug substance APIs.

FDA grants priority review for emicizumab, an investigational bispecific monoclonal antibody, for treating hemophilia A with factor VIII inhibitors.

Roquette, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in plant-based excipients, announced the opening of a new R&D and customer technical service facility in Singapore in fall 2017.

With £4.5 million (US$5.8 million) in funding, the consortium is tasked with developing a new automated continuous biologics purification unit to make biologic drug manufacturing more efficient.

AstraZeneca and Champions will develop new cohorts of patient-derived xenograft models to be used in oncology programs in breast and lung cancer as well as for use in other academic and industry applications.

The first program of this collaboration will focus on the development of a candidate for severe acute pancreatitis.