
Stating the obvious here, but drug development is a protracted, expensive and risky process. From the lab bench to pharmacy shelves, bringing a new drug to market often stretches 10+…
We’ve reached the two year anniversary of the first FDA approval of a deuterated molecule (April 2017, Teva’s Astedo – a deuterated version of tetrabenazine for the treatment of Huntington’s…
Drug manufacturing technology transfer is one of the most complicated and demanding processes in the drug company-contract development organization relationship. There is one overriding deliverable that must go right –…
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare disease affecting 1-2 people per million in the U.S. and Europe. The orphan drug Bosentan, a dual endothelin receptor antagonist, is used in…
In our PE Lab, a team of 27 highly specialized engineers integrates the key attributes of QbD process understanding, process control, and continuous improvement with advanced equipment, Design of Experiments…
Properties which can affect an API’s yield, delivery date and purity include: Type of Synthesis Propinquity Complexity of Structure Cost Efficient Synthesis Carryover of impurities into drug substance Minimum isolation…
From the day Neuland was established in 1984, our core business and operational expertise has been the manufacturing of Generic Drug Substances. More specifically, delivering niche, highly-specialized and complex synthetic…
Synthetic route selection is a crucial element in API manufacturing. While the requirements of the synthetic process of a drug will naturally evolve during its life cycle, scouting alternate routes…
In both the generic and innovator pharmaceutical API production sectors, time-to-market is a critical factor. How critical? A one-day delay in reaching the market could mean the loss of $1…
How the Valsartan Contamination Happened: Its Context & Implications
Posted on July 8, 2019 by Saharsh Davuluri
Last year’s valsartan contamination and recall brought some surprising chemical synthesis issues to light in the pharma industry. While the reactions used in generic valsartan production are known to be…