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From Static PDFs to Usable Digital Forms in Pharmaceutical Operations

Walk through the quality compliance or operations function of almost any pharmaceutical manufacturer and youll find PDF forms everywhere from deviation reports change controls and training records to supplier questionnaires audit checklists and equipment logs Many of these documents exist as PDF files but functionally still behave like paper Someone prints them fills them in by hand

The Future of Pharma Data Management: Creating Unified Platforms for Innovation

Ask a European pharmaceutical executive where the companys data actually lives and the honest answer is usually in about forty places under a dozen owners described in half a dozen vocabularies Research holds assay and translational data Clinical holds trial and subject data

Beyond Manual Literature Screening: From AI Automation to Decision Preparation in Pharmacovigilance in Europe

As of August the EU AI Act is generally applicable although some obligations for highrisk AI systems apply at later dates For pharmacovigilance organisations a key consideration is to determine the role and classification of each AI system under the Act rather than assuming that AI used in PV is automatically classified as highrisk AIliteracy requirements are already applicable while provider and...

Role of Artificial Intelligence in Pharmaceutical Industry

The global AI in the pharma market expanded to a size of nearly million in The market is anticipated to increase at a rate of from million in to million in Researchers claim that the application of these technologies enhances decisionmaking maximizes creativity increases the effectiveness of research and clinical trials

Prescription Drugs and Personalized Medicine: A New Era in Pharma

The field of medicine is rapidly evolving and one of the most exciting advancements is personalized medicine This approach tailors medical treatment to the individual characteristics of each patient

Access to Affordable Medicines: A Persistent Challenge for Europe

The problem of affordable medicines has been topical in Europe for many years Despite the fact that there are well developed health units in many regions of the world and particularly in this continent the health challenges of the population have not been fully met especially in access to affordable basic medicines This problem is relevant not only to the patients but also to the stability of heal...

Techno Trends

Alume Biosciences Secures FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Bevonescein

Alume Biosciences has received Breakthrough Therapy Designation BTD from the US Food and Drug Administration FDA for bevonescein an investigational fluorescent drug being developed to support realtime nerve visualisation during head and neck surgery in adults Bevonescein is an intravenous fluorescent peptidedye conjugate that binds to nerve tissue

Projects

SK pharmteco Plans More Than US$200 Million Investment in Small Molecule and Peptide Manufacturing

SK pharmteco is planning a fiveyear investment of more than US million to expand and modernise its pharmaceutical development and manufacturing operations in the United States The programme will strengthen capabilities for small molecules and peptides while supporting a more

Research Insights

A drug repurposing screen reveals dopamine signaling as a candidate therapeutic pathway for PIGA-CDG

PIGACDG is a congenital disorder of glycosylation caused by pathogenic partial lossoffunction variants in the PIGA gene PIGA encodes an enzyme responsible for the catalytic transfer of Nacetylglucosamine

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Post-Translational Modifications in Drug Discovery: From Molecular Regulation to Clinical Impact

For decades the central dogma of molecular biology has anchored our understanding of cellular function DNA to RNA to protein But this linear view is incomplete A growing body of evidence shows that much of biologys