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PharmTech
December 20, 2018
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Spray Film Provides Alternative to Patches

Roquette Acquires Indian Pharma Packaging Company

Lilly, AC Immune Sign R&D Agreement for Alzheimer's Disease


Top Stories

GSK and Pfizer Merge Consumer Healthcare Businesses

The proposed $12.7-billion deal includes the spinoff of GSK and Pfizer consumer brands to a new UK-listed company.
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Sandoz, Ares Genetic to Partner on Digital Platform for Antibiotics

The companies will develop a digital platform for the development and lifecycle management of antibiotics.
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Industry News

AI Enables Smart Drug Discovery Solutions

The use of artificial intelligence creates growth opportunities in novel therapeutics development by leveraging multi-sourced data, according to experts at research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan.
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Dyural-40 and 61 lots of Dyural-80 Recalled

Asclemed USA Inc., dba Enovachem Pharmaceuticals is recalling the product due to labeling that incorrectly states that stoppers do not contain latex.
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Supplier News

Investors Raise $30 Million to Advance "Quality Control" for Gene Editing and Relapse Prediction for Oncology

Agilent and other partners are funding development of Tapestri, a single-cell sequencing platform designed to help predict cancer relapse in individual patients and show the efficacy of gene-editing experiments.
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Roquette Completes Acquisition of Indian Pharma Packaging Company

Roquette has announced the completion of its acquisition of a majority stake in a pharma packaging company based in India.
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Bio/Pharma News

Lilly and AC Immune Sign Agreement for R&D of Potential Alzheimer's Treatment

Eli Lilly and AC Immune have signed a license and collaboration agreement focussing on the R&D of tau aggregation inhibitor small molecules for the potential treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
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Orchard Therapeutics Announces New Gene Therapy Manufacturing Facility

A new facility in California will expand Orchard Therapeutic's capacity to develop and deliver lentiviral vector and gene-corrected hematopoetic stem cells.
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Regulatory News

FDA Puts Chinese Manufacturer on Import Alert

The agency sent a warning letter to Cao Medical Equipment Co., Ltd. after inspectors found CGMP violations at the company's Langfang, Hebei facility.
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UK Pharma Industry Emphasizes Need to Avoid a 'No-Deal' Brexit

The UK Pharma Industry has emphasised the need for the government to avoid a 'no-deal' Brexit in response to the prime minister delaying the deal vote.
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Product Profile

Aquarius™ Genesis coating systems

Aquarius™ Genesis coatings enable significant productivity improvements in continuous or batch processes. Designed for application up to 35% solids, it provides a robust film with high adhesion and smooth appearance.
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FEATURED TOPICS

SCALE UP

Tech Transfer: Tearing Down the Wall

Once described as "throwing processes over the wall," tech transfer is evolving into close collaboration and communication, as potential problems are considered sooner, and new technology is applied. Joseph Szczesiul, director of technical services for UPM Pharmaceuticals, shares best practices.
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QUALITY BY DESIGN

Impact of Non-Compliance on the American Healthcare Consumer

GMP non-compliance can spill over and impact patient access to life-saving medications.
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DRUG DELIVERY

Spray Film Provides Alternative to Patches

Virpax's Patch-in-a-Can technology delivers pain medication using a metered-dose spray film.
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FORMULATION

Fighting Bacterial Resistance with Biologics

Antibody-based drugs offer new mechanisms of action and greater specificity.
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Events

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eBOOKS

Laboratory Best Practices 2018 eBook

The editors explore new tools for bio/pharma lab studies—such as robotics, augmented reality, and advanced instrumentation— as well as best practices for method development, multiple attribute monitoring, lab mixers, and raw material testing.

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