The Challenge of Change - Managing Excipients Control
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05-Apr-2011 - Germany-based Glycotope Biotechnology has stated adding new cleanrooms at its antibody production facility in Heidelberg.
04-Apr-2011 - Chemicals supplier BASF has increased the price of all APIs and drug excipients by 10 per cent, citing higher costs
31-Mar-2011 - Chinese (API) maker ScinoPharm said that it met its sales targets in 2010, despite rocketing raw materials prices, cutbacks in government healthcare spending in key markets and currency revaluation.
29-Mar-2011 - Unigene Laboratories claims a Phase III trial has validated its oral peptide drug delivery technology.
29-Mar-2011 - Novavax halved its operating loss in the fourth quarter as a result of lower clinical trial spending.
24-Mar-2011 - Scientists from the University of Syracuse’s chemistry department have created a new drug delivery system which they claim will improve the efficacy of cancer-killing drugs.
24-Mar-2011 - Cumberland Pharmaceuticals has introduced an Acetadote (acetylcysteine) formulation that is free from stabilisation or chelating agents.
23-Mar-2011 - Switzerland-based Lonza has signed two new manufacturing deals with pharmaceutical firms that look set to improve capacity utilisation.
23-Mar-2011 - GSK is participating in a UK Government-backed innovative manufacturing initiative aimed at revitalising the sector.
21-Mar-2011 - in-PharmaTechnologist presents a round-up of fine chemicals news, including developments at Camlin, CABB, Albemarle and Materia.
21-Mar-2011 - Inovio has received a US grant to investigate delivering DNA vaccines to different parts of the body at the same time.
16-Mar-2011 - Cytovance Biologics, the US-based biopharmaceutical contract manufacturer (CMO), has secured a growth equity investment from Connecticut, US-based private investors, Great Point Partners.
15-Mar-2011 - Researchers have uncovered a link between exposure to sunlight and the body's ability to break down medicines that could have big implications for formulators.
10-Mar-2011 - API maker IPCA laboratories has received UK MHRA approval for its formulations and production unit in Indore, India.
08-Mar-2011 - Swiss pharmaceutical ingredient maker Helsinn says its new cytotoxic API production plant will be operational for laboratory-scale projects early next year.
02-Mar-2011 - Lonza is working with energy broker Usource to reduce costs at a number of its US production and R&D facilities.
01-Mar-2011 - LG Life Sciences is to build an influenza vaccine production facility in South Korea after licensing technology from Novavax.
24-Feb-2011 - CMO Carbogen Amcis will restructure its Swiss manufacturing operations and cut jobs to combat “inadequate profitability” in a new plan announced late yesterday.
24-Feb-2011 - Mass-market drug manufacturers can turn a fixed cost into a service-providing revenue generator by investing in an agile supply chain, says PwC.
23-Feb-2011 - Sigma-Aldrich is repackaging certain BASF pharmaceutical excipients to make them available for the academic research and development sector.
22-Feb-2011 - Belgian chemicals distributor Azelis has agreed to buy S&D Group citing its presence in key pharmaceutical ingredients markets as an important driver.
22-Feb-2011 - A radical overhaul of pharmaceutical supply chains is needed to prepare them for the type of products currently in development, says PwC.
21-Feb-2011 - UK-based Endeavour Specialty Chemicals has launched a range of thioamide intermediates, citing growing evidence of their potential role in development of new cancer treatments.
21-Feb-2011 - Avantor Performance Materials is to relocate its headquarters to Pennsylvania but manufacturing will stay at the existing New Jersey site.
21-Feb-2011 - The US HHS has published a national vaccine plan that stresses the need for rapid and flexible manufacturing methods.