With technology racing onward, drugs are becoming more complex than ever before – along with their active ingredients and the processes that produce them. Different Challenges, Different Scales – The…
With everything involved in bringing a drug to market, enlisting the services of an experienced CMO can prove to be a very worthy investment. Ideally, the relationship between a pharma…
In many of the blog posts we’ve written over the last few years, we’ve referenced the growing complexity of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). It isn’t just mindless chatter intended to…
Since pioneers such as Bodanszky and Du Vigneaud first produced them synthetically in the 1950’s, peptides have always held tremendous – but unrealized – promise for human health. Despite their…
Reducing Mutagens, Carcinogens & Other Genotoxins to Improve Safety Profiles There are a number of process modifications API manufacturers can make to improve safety profiles, reduce production costs, improve capacity…
Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs, or – in layman’s terms – the ingredients that makes drugs work) have grown increasingly complex. Today’s equivalent of boiling tree bark into a tincture typically…
Hitting a milestone such as 30 years old as a pharmaceutical manufacturing company is a pretty big deal. Pharma – as you can imagine – has changed. A lot. Thirty…
Micronizing – and particularly nanosizing – active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) has become an integral part of the drug development & manufacturing process. And with a variety of techniques available to…
I’ve written before about the incredible speed of the Pharma industry’s growth in India, and the future outlook continues to look very bright. While the Indian pharma market is facing…
The transition from discovery and research to full manufacturing marks a critical time in a drug candidate’s lifecycle. Whether a company completes the scale-up process entirely in-house, with a single…