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Emerging Technologies in Automation Machinery for the Pharmaceutical Industry

Pharmaceutical industry has long been a forerunner on the use of technology where it has proved vital in increasing efficiency quality and safety Automation machinery has become more important over the years due to its ability to efficiently handle manufacturing packaging and distribution challenges Advanced technology is improving automation machinery as an integration tool in the pharmaceutical...

B2B Pharma Webinars: Driving Regulatory Insights for Decision-Makers

The regulatory intelligence in the modern dynamic pharmaceutical ecosystem cannot be just an office role any longer it is a strategic necessity With the changing world guidelines and digital transformation reallife evidences needed and crossborder compliance frameworks the decisionmakers have to keep pace with the incessant change in regulations

Digital Biomarkers and Wearables: Transforming Clinical Trial Data Collection

A participant enrolled in a week pharmaceutical trial may spend fewer than six hours inside a clinical site The remaining odd hours of that year the stairs the fatigue the broken nights the good days and the collapsed ones pass unrecorded Clinical development has quietly accepted this trade for decades building enormous capital decisions on a handful of supervised snapshots taken under artificia...

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...

The FDA May Be Coming Unannounced to Your Facility: Are You Ready?

On May the President of the United States signed an executive order with far reaching impact on several agencies including the FDA Among other directives beginning in August the US Food and Drug Administration FDA will initiate unannounced inspections at nonUS manufacturing facilities involved in producing drugs biologics medical devices and diagnostics intended for American consumers and patie...

Strategic Risk Management in Pharmaceutical Supply Networks

Ask a European pharmaceutical executive team how many qualified suppliers stand behind its ten highestvalue products and the answer arrives quickly and precisely Ask how many of those suppliers would still be shipping if a single industrial estate lost power for six weeks and the room falls silent That silence is the strategic problem in one sentence

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