Addressing Drug Quality: Aging Facilities

Rohit Tripathi, vice president of industry strategy, consumer packaged goods, and manufacturing at RELEX Solutions, explains where cold-chain planning still breaks down and why biopharma supply chain leaders should use AI to act on data sooner, with humans making the final call.

Nathan Edwards of Arya Consulting moderates a discussion with Elisabeth Gardiner of Tevard Biosciences and Donny Xu of the RTW Institute about rare disease treatment development and navigating the FDA’s Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Voucher Program.

Alexion’s ravulizumab won accelerated approval to reduce proteinuria in adults with IgA nephropathy after the Phase 3 I CAN trial showed a 43.4% placebo-adjusted reduction at Week 34.

Rohit Tripathi, vice president of industry strategy, consumer packaged goods, and manufacturing at RELEX Solutions, explains what is driving biopharma reshoring, how USMCA uncertainty complicates sourcing for biologics, and where cold-chain visibility still breaks down.

At PharmSci 360, Insilica CEO Thomas Luechtefeld will present on auditable agentic AI systems and how they are expanding computational toxicology beyond single predictive models.

Emily Heffernan, director of new process technologies at Arcadis, explains what it takes to design a facility that can produce both lentiviral vectors and mRNA-LNPs, and how in vivo platforms change QC release testing.

Nuravax will test AV-1959R in a 160-adult phase 2 trial to see whether the amyloid vaccine can prevent Alzheimer disease before symptoms begin.

BMS's Dr Nathan Pennell outlines how biomarker testing barriers and trial diversity affect patient access to targeted oncology drugs.