Branded HFA albuterols to completely dominate market
10-Jun-2008 - The impending ban on albuterol inhalers that use chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) propellants will see branded hydrofluoroalkane...
Striped nanoparticles improve drug delivery
10-Jun-2008 - Gold nanoparticles coated with alternating stripes of two different molecules can penetrate a cell membrane...
First safe syringe in Indian market
09-Jun-2008 - Indian biotech company Biocon has started using pre-filled syringes for the administration of granulocyte-colony stimulating...
First ever patient administered a siRNA cancer treatment
05-Jun-2008 - A patient has completed the first successful dosing cycle with small interfering RNA (siRNA) for...
Pharmaceutical manufacturing: people on the move
04-Jun-2008 - in-PharmaTechnologist.com presents its periodic round-up of personnel changes in pharmaceutical manufacturing and development.
Polytherics Complex technology to make drug solubility simple
02-Jun-2008 - UK-based biopharmaceutical company Polytherics hopes that its polymer technology can offer drugmakers a new method...
Shedding light on molecularly imprinted polymers
02-Jun-2008 - A comprehensive review of stimuli-responsive molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) in Current Drug Delivery has highlighted...
Drug delivery development news in brief
29-May-2008 - in-PharmaTechnologist's round-up of developments in the field of drug delivery, this week includes: Access' Cobalamin...
Pharmaceutical manufacturing: people on the move
28-May-2008 - in-PharmaTechnologist.com presents its periodic round-up of personnel changes in pharmaceutical manufacturing and development.
New production process advances Novavax's SARS vaccine
28-May-2008 - US-based Novavax has made advances in its attempt to develop a vaccine to combat severe...
Durect ramps up Remoxy manufacturing
28-May-2008 - Specialty pharmaceutical firm Durect has begun manufacturing the key components of Remoxy, ahead of a...
Pump-powered nebulizer for developing world
27-May-2008 - A pump-powered nebulizer for delivering vaccinations in the developing world is being worked on by...
Artificial virus for 'tailor-made gene therapy'
27-May-2008 - An artificial self-assembling virus capable of serving as a drug delivery system has been created...
Perrigo and Cobrek plan to develop generic Luxiq
27-May-2008 - Michigan-based drugmaker Perrigo and Cobrek Pharmaceuticals, a newly formed subsidiary of Pentech Pharmaceuticals, are teaming...
Generex set to start trials of metformin gum
26-May-2008 - Buccal drug delivery specialist Generex Biotechnology reports that the production of its chewing gum-based metformin,...
Prometheus fires pellets for colon treatment
26-May-2008 - Prometheus Laboratories has initiated US Phase II trials of Colal-Pred, a treatment for ulcerative colitis...
Biotech acquisitions scale new heights
21-May-2008 - Big pharma's lust for biotech's pipelines appears to be continuing unabated with a record $27bn-worth...
UK firm developing nasal MRSA gel
21-May-2008 - XF-73, a new gel-based bacteriocidal drug being developed by UK biotechnology firm Destiny Pharma, could...
32,000 French pharmaceutical jobs at risk
20-May-2008 - A grim future awaits workers in the French pharmaceutical industry, with 32,000 jobs at risk...
Pfizer closes plant earmarked for Exubera
19-May-2008 - Pfizer is planning to close its Terre Haute, Indiana manufacturing facility which had received $300m...
Pharmaceutical manufacturing: people on the move
15-May-2008 - in-PharmaTechnologist.com presents its periodic round-up of personnel changes in pharmaceutical manufacturing and development.
Device to 'revolutionise' inhaled drug testing
07-May-2008 - UK-based Cambridge Consultants has developed a portable instrument which it says could "revolutionise" the way...
Voxels offer targeted drug delivery breakthrough
06-May-2008 - US scientists have developed a system of 'microcontainers' that one day could enable the simultaneous...
Pharmaceutical manufacturing: people on the move
30-Apr-2008 - in-PharmaTechnologist.com presents its periodic round-up of personnel changes in pharmaceutical manufacturing and development.
siRNA delivery difficulties to meet a sticky end?
29-Apr-2008 - French firm Polyplus-transfection hopes that its new "sticky siRNA" (ssiRNA) technology, which allows siRNA molecules...
