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August 16, 2018
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Import Alert Spurs Recall of Levothyroxine and Liothyronine

Boehringer Ingelheim Licenses Global Rights to Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy

Ebola Vaccinations Begin in Response to Congo's Last Outbreak


Top Stories

FDA Approves First-of-its-Kind RNA Therapy

The new drug, Onpattro (patisiran), by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, is in a new class of drugs called small interfering ribonucleic acid (siRNA) treatment.
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EMA Scales Back Activities to Prepare for Brexit

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) will temporarily scale back activities as it copes with “significant staff loss” and prepares for the next phase in its continuity plan.
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Industry News

North Americans Pegged as Least Informed on Pharma GDPR, GlobalData Reports

Only 54% of North Americans feel informed about the requirements of the general data protection regulation (GDPR), according to a report by GlobalData.
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Ebola Vaccinations Begin in Response to Congo’s Last Outbreak

Ebola vaccinations by the World Health Organization began in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, one week after the country’s latest outbreak.
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Supplier News

Key Biologics and Astarte Biologics Merge

The combined companies will provide research- and clinical-grade human immune cells, blood products, and related services.
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Avalon GloboCare Partners with Weill Cornell Medical College for CAR-T Production Technologies

Avalon and Weill will co-develop bio-production and standardization procedures for CAR-T therapy.
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Bio/Pharma News

Boehringer Ingelheim Licenses Global Rights to Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy

Boehringer Ingelheim joins Oxford BioMedica, UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy Consortium, and Imperial Innovations to form a partnership for developing a new gene therapy to treat cystic fibrosis.
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Regeneron, bluebird bio Partner on Cell Therapy Development

The companies will collaborate on the discovery, development, and commercialization of cell therapies for cancer.
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Regulatory News

FDA Issues Warning Letter to Canadian API Manufacturer

The agency issued a warning letter to Canadian API manufacturer, Les Produits Chimiques B.G.R, citing cGMP violations at its API facility in Pointe-Claire, Quebec.
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Import Alert Spurs Recall of Levothyroxine and Liothyronine

Westminster Pharmaceuticals, LLC is voluntarily recalling Levothyroxine and Liothyronine after FDA issues import alert affecting the active ingredient.
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FEATURED TOPICS

BIOLOGICS

The Challenge of Building Better Biologic Drugs

Development costs and time to market continue to put pressure on the biopharma industry, driving the need for innovation in methods and technologies.
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MANUFACTURING

Exploring a Modern Control Strategy for Wurster Coating

A process control system based on PAT can compensate for variations in particle size, resulting in more consistent coating thickness in a Wurster coating process.
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SUPPLY CHAIN

Reducing the Risk of Pharma Air Transport

Air transport continues to be the most secure way to ship valuable therapies, but it is also the riskiest. Standards are helping to improve service quality.
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QUALITY

Risk-Based Predictive Stability for Pharmaceutical Development–A Proposed Regulatory Template

A published regulatory template sharing best practices for filing RBPS data would benefit the industry and regulatory reviewers by enabling a consistent presentation of predictive data and conclusions.
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How Protocol Design Drives Comparator Sourcing Cost, Timelines, Complexity, and Risk
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Building a Faster, More Flexible Biologic Development Process for Targeted Therapies
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How Well Should You Understand Your Crystallization Process (and Solid-State Properties)?
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Best Practices for Highly Potent API (HPAPI) Development and Manufacturing
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Events

Cleaning Validation

August 21–23, 2018

CPhI Middle East & Africa 2018

September 3–5, 2018

2018 PDA/FDA Joint Regulatory Conference

September 24–26, 2018

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