As the dust settled on fiscal year 2009, pharmaceutical executives could be excused for thinking that the industry had avoided a serious crisis. During 2008, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by about one-third, pharmaceutical indices ...
One of the least desired outcomes of utilizing combinatorial and
high throughput chemistry has been a marked increase in poorly
soluble drug candidates.
Q: You recently celebrated the one year anniversary of Charles River's Shanghai facility. What have you learned about the Asian market since opening last October?
First, let me update you on a huge milestone for the Shanghai facility. The site ...
The market expectations for reliable products and robust supply chain influence industries regulated by FDA.
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Due to the limited guidance available for release and stability testing of comparators, strategies are left to the discretion of individual pharmaceutical companies.
Pfizer, GSK, Lilly, AstraZeneca and others have all recently announced reductions in the size of their internal R&D organizations[1].
Within the past few years in the biopharmaceutical industry, there has been an increase in outsourcing Clinical Data Management (CDM) and related services to qualified outsourced partners, e.g., Contract Research Organizations.
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Pfizer’s Worldwide Development Operations (Dev Ops) group stands at the forefront of a continuing evolution in drug development that is yielding dividends in the currency that matters most to the pharmaceutical industry – improvements in quality, ...
Saturday, January 01, 2011
Many pharmaceutical companies, big and small, have been outsourcing work to contract research organizations (CRO’s) and contract manufacturing organizations (CMO’s).
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Change is inevitable whether intentional or unplanned. Some people like to write the “C” in CGMP as a small “c” to reflect the fact that “current” really represents a changing set of rules. Such changes can occur in an industry because of shifting ...