The Challenge of Change - Managing Excipients Control
Colorcon
16-Feb-2011 - Canada lost more than 3,600 pharmaceutical jobs in the second half of 2010 as domestic and export sales slowed.
14-Feb-2011 - Cambrex’ operating income more than doubled in the fourth quarter as a result of an upturn in API sales and lower production costs.
14-Feb-2011 - The Merck BioManufacturing Network is producing clinical supplies for Nuron Biotech using a novel large scale pressure refold technology.
10-Feb-2011 - in-PharmaTechnologist presents a replay of our live blog covering all the news, views and multimedia from Informex 2011.
10-Feb-2011 - Minnesota “has raised its game” in pharma manufacturing and this revival, coupled to drug-device convergence, may justify continuing investment.
09-Feb-2011 - Global API service provider, ScinoPharm, is to begin the commercial manufacture of vilazodone hydrochloride, the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) in Clinical Data Inc.'s new antidepressant, Viibryd.
09-Feb-2011 - A bill requiring biopharm manufacturers to give the FDA early notification of potential drug shortages has been introduced to the US Senate.
03-Feb-2011 - Californian bioproduction expansions could create jobs in 2011 but changes to education are needed to sustain growth, according to a survey.
02-Feb-2011 - Genzyme will sell its pharmaceutical intermediates business to International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG).
31-Jan-2011 - Crystal Pharmatech is to provide solid-state characterisation training in China to advance local API and drug development beyond its “infancy phase”.
31-Jan-2011 - Tianyin Pharmaceutical has completed the construction of its Jiangchuan macrolide facility (JCM) near Chengdu, China.
27-Jan-2011 - SurModics is still considering “strategic alternatives” for its pharmaceutical business, which has seen revenues continue to decline in the first quarter of 2011.
27-Jan-2011 - Abbott Laboratories is to cut 1,900 US commercial and manufacturing jobs in response to healthcare reform and tough regulators.
25-Jan-2011 - Hospira has confirmed it will no longer make Pentothal - an anaesthetic used in lethal injections – as the company “never condoned” its use in executions.
25-Jan-2011 - Torrent Pharma has begun construction of $75m API and formulation facilities in India to support its international expansion programme.
25-Jan-2011 - There is a dramatic lack of planning for the production and distribution of medical pandemic countermeasures, according to an OECD report.
24-Jan-2011 - The US FDA has suggested pharmaceutical firms use a maximum bead size of 2.0mm for modified-release drugs formulated for “sprinkle” delivery to avoid problems resulting from inadvertent chewing.
24-Jan-2011 - Amrutanjan and Austin Chemical are establishing a joint venture to market Indian-produced clinical trial materials.
20-Jan-2011 - A magnetically controlled pill may boost the body’s absorption of drugs by safely securing the tablet at the right site in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, say researchers at Brown University, US.
19-Jan-2011 - Actavis has expanded its renewable energy powered pharmaceutical manufacturing site in Iceland for tablet manufacturing and packaging.
19-Jan-2011 - Bio-Manguinhos has licensed green plant-based vaccine production technology to position Brazil at the forefront of biologics manufacture.
18-Jan-2011 - Italy-based API maker Euticals will buy fine chemicals firm Archimica from investment group TowerBrook Capital Partners.
18-Jan-2011 - ShangPharma has opened a multi-purpose pharmaceutical development cGMP manufacturing facility in Fengxian, China, and started operations on the initial phase of production.
17-Jan-2011 - Rentschler Biotechnologie has inked a deal to become the sole manufacturer of recombinant human interferon beta-1a (IFN-beta 1a) API for Faron Pharmaceutical.
12-Jan-2011 - Enlight Biosciences, a Boston, US-based drug discovery and development technologies company, has formed the new company, Entrega, which focuses on oral drug delivery techniques.