The Challenge of Change - Managing Excipients Control
Colorcon
16-Feb-2006 - Contract Research Organisation (CRO) Averion, and the SIPLAS Research Organisation has signed an agreement to provide promotion and support of clinical trials in a move that that reinforces Latin America as an emerging hub of clinical trial service providers.
08-Feb-2006 - Commercial packaging and clinical trials services provider Brecon Pharmaceuticals has completed the doubling in size of its facility in Hereford, responding to growing demands from its pharmaceutical customers.
07-Feb-2006 - A UK university has joined forces with a major pharmaceutical company in a unique collaboration, worth £2.5 million (€3.6 million) ensuring drug researchers of the future will be trained in 'magic bullet' drug R&D, which has been hailed as the next generation of pharmaceutical therapy.
01-Feb-2006 - Munich-based Sud-Chemie is set to expand its pharmaceutical packaging business to German-speaking markets with a joint venture with Swiss company Plaspaq SA.
25-Jan-2006 - Global demand for pharmaceutical packaging is tipped to increase 6.3 per cent each year to create a $30 bn (€24.4 bn) market in 2009, pushed by emerging pharma industries, tighter government standards on packaging and the burgeoning advanced drug delivery sector.
23-Jan-2006 - US researchers have managed to create tiny chemical cages that enclose drugs within a capsule that can be manufactured to deliver drugs to organs or tissues without causing harm elsewhere.
20-Jan-2006 - Following the ongoing success of its flagship DataLase range, UK company DataLase (formerly Sherwood Technology) is on track to open a new manufacturing facility in the US in Atlanta this quarter, in order to ramp up its US sales by 2007.
20-Jan-2006 - New labelling laws by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will make medicines safer. The layout of prescription drug package inserts have been updated for the first time in 25 years, requiring drug makers to provide doctors with easier access to important information about drug safety.
16-Jan-2006 - After reducing its year-end outlook and reporting its lowest share price for nearly a year in the third quarter, West Pharmaceutical Services has now increased its revenue and earnings per share expectations for the fourth quarter and year-end of December 2005.
05-Jan-2006 - With two acquisitions in two months, US biotechnology major Genzyme has strengthened and diversified its ability to develop gene therapy products that use either adenovirus or adeno-associated virus vectors.
04-Jan-2006 - Adoption of RFID hardware and software throughout the pharma industry is about to explode, spurred on by the push from industry organizations such as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to implement RFID tags to combat sales of fake drugs, according to reports by market research analysts Gartner and Frost & Sullivan.
19-Dec-2005 - Budding biotech company Artelis is the first to benefit from Solvay's new strategy to undertake 50 per cent of its new projects in partnership with outside start-up companies.
16-Dec-2005 - Superfos Pharma, one of Europe's leading suppliers of plastic packaging for the pharma market, has been acquired by Gerresheimer in a move that should double the group's turnover in plastics to €50 million.
15-Dec-2005 - New insights into the dysregulation of beta cells and their impact on type 2 diabetes progression is now possible after Roche announced a partnership, which aims to identify novel pathways and new biomarkers for drug development.
13-Dec-2005 - US drug company, Eli Lilly, offered a more encouraging outlook than was expected forecasting an earnings growth of up to 12 per cent, a stark contrast to its struggling competitors, who also face generic competition, drug safety and regulation.
09-Dec-2005 - Samson Medical Technologies has signed a co-marketing agreement with Baxa for its novel packaging system designed to improve patient safety by reducing the risk of medication errors in prescription drug compounding.
05-Dec-2005 - Aegate will launch a software solution to combat one of the pharmaceutical industry's biggest and growing patient safety issues - counterfeit drugs - in the UK, US and Belgium in 2006 following the recent success of its UK pilot programme.
05-Dec-2005 - Clinical trials service provider, The Specials Clinical Manufacturing, has announced the recent installation of Isopak's In-Cap machine, an automatic bench machine that is currently the smallest automatic filling machine in the world.
02-Dec-2005 - Omron Corp aims to invest $20 million in the next two years in an attempt to capture a larger slice of the RFID market, which is expected to swell from $1.95 billion (€1.65 million) in 2005 to an estimated $26.9 billion in 2015, driven by cost competitive technology.
28-Nov-2005 - Alcan has acquired the outstanding minority share of Propack in a deal that further cements the company's standing in the Chinese market. The acquisition forms part of a major restructuring exercise, in which the closure and downsizing of European plants signifies the current market climate.
24-Nov-2005 - Sun Microsystems have strengthened the fight against drug counterfeiting by launching a unique RFID software package tailored to the specific needs of the pharmaceutical industry.
10-Nov-2005 - German biotech company Evotec OAI boosted its third quarter revenues by 18 per cent to €19 million, despite the difficult operating environment for companies supplying drug discovery technologies, continuing its recovery from a weak start to the year.
04-Nov-2005 - The world's first and only radio frequency identification (RFID) smart cap, originally designed for drug trial compliance monitoring, is being re-launched as an anti-counterfeiting tool.
02-Nov-2005 - The Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) recently held a conference in Munich to fuel the further development of the growing pre-fillable syringe market.
31-Oct-2005 - Ampac have developed a novel, lightweight, high-barrier pouch, offering pharmaceutical manufacturers a new option for delivering pulmonary drugs in a more efficient manner than traditional container types.