The Challenge of Change - Managing Excipients Control
Colorcon
28-Jul-2011 - BASF posts Q2 results and says economic uncertainties mean industrial customers are still cautious about placing orders.
27-Jul-2011 - CMO Angel Biotechnologies has called in UK-based engineering group WH Partnership to help re-commissioning its GMP standard biomanufacturing facility in Cramlington near Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
27-Jul-2011 - Researchers at Alexandria University believe they can solve problems in the delivery of erectile dysfunction medication with the help of nanotechnology.
27-Jul-2011 - Market analysts PMR have launched a new paper highlighting the potential for API production in Russia, Ukraine and the Baltics.
25-Jul-2011 - Carticept Medical has been given the Food and Drug Administration go-ahead to market its Navigator Delivery System (Navigator DS) in the US.
25-Jul-2011 - India’s CDSCO has issued draft guidance designed to help active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) importers streamline the submission and registration process.
21-Jul-2011 - All strategic suppliers to J&J will need at least two publically-reported sustainability goals under a new initiative by the healthcare giant.
21-Jul-2011 - Lanxess is doubling capacity at a German plant to meet rising demand for menthol, a product used as a pharma excipient and in personal care.
20-Jul-2011 - Shilpa has bought a controlling stake in Nu Therapeutics, an India-based pharmaceutical formulation business.
19-Jul-2011 - Granules and Ajinomoto OmniChem have teamed up to produce high value APIs and intermediates at a new Indian plant.
19-Jul-2011 - Life Technologies has developed new drug delivery technology for therapeutic applications that is 100 times more potent than previous formulations.
19-Jul-2011 - EDT will accelerate its shift to proprietary products and consolidate to save $20m when its takeover by Alkermes closes.
18-Jul-2011 - A new oral medication for asthma sufferers could wipe out half of all business for inhaler manufacturers.
12-Jul-2011 - Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have pioneered a multi-compartment gel capsule that could be used to simultaneously deliver drugs of different types.
06-Jul-2011 - Scientists at the University of British Columbia have pioneered a magnetic retinal implant that can supply a regulated and on-demand release of drugs to treat blindness from diabetic retinopathy.
06-Jul-2011 - A WTO panel has ruled China’s export limits on raw materials, including some with pharma uses, are unfair after claims they drive up prices.
05-Jul-2011 - ReNeuron has inked a new deal with Angel Biotechnology to outsource stem cell GMP production services to the CMO.
04-Jul-2011 - Catalent and OSO BioPharmaceuticals Manufacturing have both announced expansions to their controlled substances businesses in the last week.
04-Jul-2011 - Siga Technologies can resume work on scale-up of a smallpox antiviral after Chimerix dropped its protest following a contract modification.
30-Jun-2011 - Prosonix has secured funding to move its pipeline of proprietary mono and multi-component combination respiratory therapies through clinical development.
28-Jun-2011 - The European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and Healthcare (EDQM) issued a new batch of CEP for drug products.
22-Jun-2011 - Lonza has launched a new process development and material supply service designed for the discovery and early development market.
14-Jun-2011 - US stem-cell therapy firm NeoStem predicts that output of its China-based generic antibiotics subsidiary Suzhou Erye Pharmaceutical will increase after further manufacturing approval from the SFDA.
13-Jun-2011 - US drugmaker Baxter International has been ordered to pay compensation of $625,000 to the estate of man who received a dose of heparin that was contaminated with over-sulfated chondroitin sulphate (OSCS).
08-Jun-2011 - Switzerland-based life sciences supplier Lonza says it will invest CHF10m (€8m) to expand a Singapore plant that is part of its custom biomanufacturing business.