Pharma Articles
Articles are written by renowned pharmaceutical company executives and other professionals from across the world on important topics relating to the business. The part of articles on the pharmaceutical industry focuses on current and developing concerns in fields such as pharmaceutical R&D, drug discovery, clinical trials, pharmaceutical production, biopharmaceuticals, and information technology.
Generative AI in Pharma: Scaling Productivity without Compromising
Most enterprise technologies enter a pharmaceutical company through a single door A manufacturing execution system arrives at a site A clinical data platform arrives in development Governance follows the deployment because there is a deployment to govern Generative AI did not behave this way It reac...
AI-Native Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Transforming the Smart Factory
Most European manufacturing leaders have already paid for a smart factory Sensors were installed historians consolidated execution systems layered over the batch record and dashboards commissioned and mounted on shopfloor screens The plant became visible What it rarely became was decisive Informatio...
The Rise of Continuous Clinical Trials: Redefining Drug Development
The conventional clinical trial is a disposable asset A sponsor writes a protocol for a single compound activates a network of sites recruits a control group reads out and then dismantles everything it has built When the next candidate arrives often in the same disease often at the same hospitals
Smarter, Faster, Cheaper: The Quiet Revolution in Pharma's First Half of 2026
If you took a step back to look at the pharmaceutical industry during the first six months of one thing became obvious very quickly The old rules of global drug manufacturing were quietly rewritten For decades major lowcost production centers were viewed mostly as highvolume factories for basic
AI-Native R&D: Transforming Drug Discovery Through Intelligent Automation
For four decades pharmaceutical research productivity has moved stubbornly in the wrong direction A new medicine still takes ten to fifteen years to reach patients at a capitalised cost approaching US billion
Rethinking Make-or-Buy: Strategic Manufacturing Decisions in Pharma
Few strategic decisions in pharmaceutical operations carry as much longterm consequence as the choice of what to make and what to buy and few are revisited as rarely Network footprints agreed a decade ago partners selected during a capacity crunch technology transfers completed under launch pressure...
Cell and Gene Therapy's Trillion-Dollar Reckoning Is Here
Cell and gene therapies can cure diseases once thought untreatable Yet a string of commercial collapses now suggests that curing the patient and sustaining the business are two very different challenges and the industry is confronting the gap at last
Lessons from Technology Transfer in Global Drug Product Development: From Knowledge Transfer to Commercial Success
Technology transfer is the critical bridge between pharmaceutical development and commercial manufacturing transforming scientific innovation into medicines that can be reliably produced at scale Successful technology transfer extends far beyond the transfer of manufacturing processes and documentat...
Quality by Design Is a Mindset, Not a Milestone
Every medicine is a promise about consistency The tablet dispensed in Milan next spring must behave exactly like the one tested in a trial four years earlier and like the ten million made between them
Cybersecurity in Pharma: The Threat No One Budgeted For
There is a particular kind of risk that organisations are bad at pricing the one that has never happened to them Pharmaceutical companies have spent a generation building sophisticated defences against the risks they know intimatelycontamination adulteration deviation recall Quality systems are matu...
