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Digital Twins: The Future Blueprint for Pharmaceutical Production

Digital Twins have revolutionized the pharmaceutical industry by providing virtual replicas of physical assets and processes This innovative technology offers a comprehensive view of manufacturing

Fundamentals of Clinical Pharmacology: Understanding Drug Actions and Ensuring Safety

Clinical pharmacology offers the interface between the philosophies of pharmacology and its application in the actual sense in patient care Fundamentally it is the science which examines the activities of drugs how drugs communicate with biological systems and how such communications result in treatment outcomes or adverse events Clinical pharmacology principles are needed to make sense of how m...

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...

How Can Smart Packaging Revolutionize Pharma with Track-and-Trace Solutions?

Did you know that smart packaging has the potential to revolutionize the pharmaceutical industry With trackandtrace solutions this innovative technology can enhance transparency safety and efficiency in the pharma supply chain

The Competitive Generic Therapy (CGT)

Generic medications are critical in the healthcare sector due to their affordability and accessibility to the public while maintaining comparable quality efficacy and safety to that of branded products Generic medications research and development followed by commercialisation also fosters competition and innovation within the pharmaceutical

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

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