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Oral Obesity Medicines: How Pills Could Change the European GLP-1 Market

For a decade the European obesity market has been defined by a needle a fridge and a specialist clinic In July that definition broke The European Commission granted marketing authorisation for a oncedaily mg oral semaglutide tablet making it the first GLP receptor agonist

Artificial Intelligence in Pharmacy: A New Era of Drug Development and Personalized Care

Traditional pharmaceutical systems depend significantly on manual processes making drug development slow errorprone and inefficient New drug synthesis is a process that requires a lot of effort and time including stages such as lead compound identification and optimization and these are mostly done by trial and error The revolutionary development of artificial intelligence AI is that it can automa...

Ethical Sourcing in Pharma: Top Strategies for Sustainable Supply Chains in 2026

Pharmaceutical business is moving into a decisive decade in which ethical sourcing has ceased being a corporate value of goodwill and has become a strategic need Pharma ethical sourcing is closely connected to business continuity regulatory compliance environmental stewardship and brand trust in With supply chains that are increasingly global fragmented and vulnerable to geopolitical climatic and...

The Future of Pharma and CRO Operations: A Practical Guide to Automation

Many pharmaceutical leaders assume productivity gains will come from copilots conversational tools that help staff draft text or find information faster Yet copilots remain confined to the surface of work They assist with isolated tasks but cannot follow a process through to completion They do not manage clinical operations budgets or respond to RFPs for instance

Achieving Full Digital Maturity in Pharma Manufacturing: A Paperless Transformation Guide

The pharmaceutical sector is changing radically as manufacturers do not rely on the past and dataintensive processes The vision of paperless pharma manufacturing is not a dream anymore it is a strategy based on the pressure of the regulators the complexity of operations and the need to accomplish faster and with accuracy production The center of this change is the digital pharma manufacturing and...

Navigating the EU Biosimilars Regulatory Terrain: A Comprehensive Overview

In the everevolving landscape of biological medicines biosimilars have emerged as a costeffective alternative to their reference products For market access in the European Union biosimilars must comply

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