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RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Adopting the Power of AI to Drug Development Projects
A tremendous amount of documentation is created throughout the clinical trial lifecycle
CLINICAL TRIALS
Real-world Evidence
Hearing the diagnosis from the doctor that your child has spinal muscular atrophy SMA
MANUFACTURING
Just in Time Manufacturing Creating more sustainable supply chains
Drug development has transformed immeasurably over the past decade Even before the Covid pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine
Information Technology
Challenges and Advantages of Using Artificial Intelligence in Pharma
Many advanced largescale AI initiatives still need to be proved successful in Pharma
KNOWLEDGE BANK
Interviews
Porton Pharma Solutions and Codexis Launch Global Partnership
PARTNERSHIP
Codexis Inc and Porton Pharma Solutions Ltd announce a strategic collaboration to deploy Codexis worldleading biocatalyst technology within Portons global custom intermediate and active pharmaceutical ingredients API development and manufacturing business The partnership will accelerate the creation and commercialization of new lowcost sustainable manufacturing processes exploiting the benefits of...
Articles
The Role of Bioinformatics in Accelerating Translational Research
The advent of highthroughput technologies has resulted in a massive influx of biological data into public repositories For example platforms such as the Sequence Read Archive SRA have amassed over petabytes of sequencing data housing millions of datasets generated from global studies Kodama et al NCBI Resource Coordinators Despite this wealth of information analyses suggest that a relatively sm...
Research Insights
Loading Of Tacrolimus Containing Lipid Based Drug Delivery Systems Into Mesoporous Silica For Extended Release
Abstract Many studies had been focused on designing tacrolimus sustained release preparations based on solid dispersion technique but no one had tried to employ mesoporous silica as the carrier material to realize this goal The purpose of this study was to develop a novel simple and environmental friendly drug loading method with mesoporous silica to obtain tacr
Case Studies
Heat Stable Hepatitis B vaccine
Partner Since Arecor has collaborated with PATH an international global health nonprofit organisation on the development of heat stable vaccines using the ArestatT technology Stabilisation of hepatitis B vaccine one of the many vaccines successfully st
Techno Trends
Arizon State University Discovered First-of-its-kind DNA Nano-engine
A novel type of nanoengine made of DNA has been developed by an international team of scientistsIt operates through a clever mechanism and is capable of executing pulsing movements The researchers are currently in the planning stages of equipping
White Papers
Cloud Computing in the Laboratory Informatics Solutions and Validation Approaches
In the modern business environment, a significant portion of work is conducted using computerized systems. Many solutions are used to complete tasks, including simple desktop programs like email and Microsoft Office to enterprise-wide, global systems like ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), MES (Manufacturing Execution System), and LIMS
TOP ARTICLES
Labelling and imaging of Radiopharmaceuticals
Sumel Ashique has been working as an assistant professor in Bengal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Research, Durgapur 713212, West Bengal, India. He has 3.5 years of teaching experience. He has achieved 50+ publications of International and national accredited reputed journals (Scopus, UGC). He has knowledge in drug delivery, nanotechnology and targeted treatment strategy. He has also 4 granted patents from IP and Australia, 8 published book chapters in International Books and 12 book chapters have been submitted to well-known publishers like Springer, Elsevier, Bentham and Taylor & Francis. Currently he is editing 5 books under CRC; AAP, Springer and Wiley publisher
Radheshyam Pal is an Assistant Professor at Pandaveswar School of Pharmacy. His areas of expertise in Neuropharmacology. He specifically works on the role of natural products in the CNS. He has 2 years of teaching experience. He has 2 patents and also 10 book chapters submitted in international publisher.
Decoding Antisense Oligonucleotides: Mechanisms, Applications, and Future Directions
Dr. Arun Shastry is a Bengaluru-based scientist with a PhD in Immunogenetics. He is the Co-Founder, Managing Director, and Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of Hanugen Therapeutics, a pioneering biopharmaceutical company focused on oligonucleotide-based therapies for rare genetic diseases, particularly Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). With over two decades in drug discovery for rare disorders, Dr. Shastry drives affordable, accessible treatments through innovative personalized medicine approaches in India.
Perspectives on the Vaccine Industry
As a Senior Consultant in Bioprocessing Strategy at Merck with over 14 years of
international biopharma experience, Josephine Cheng focuses on vaccine and mRNA market segments, where she translates strategies into market initiatives to enable the utilisation of best-in-class technologies and transforms industry insights into sustainable business strategies.
Josephine obtained Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Bio-resource's; Agriculture from the National Taiwan University.
Advanced Nanobots for ‘Programmed’ Biomedical Applications
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Sciences, Indian Institute of Information Technology
Research Fellow, Department of Applied Sciences, Indian Institute of Information Technology
Nanomedicine
Vinoth-Kumar Lakshmanan is a Senior Investigator and Professor for Prostate Cancer Biomarker Laboratory, Faculty of Clinical Research at Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (DU), India and Adjunct Professor of Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. Vinoth has 20+ years’ experience in cancer biology. Scientific H Index 33 achieved with 4500 plus citations. He obtained Ph.D from University of Strasbourg, France, Post Doctoral from University of Regensburg and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.
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Illumina selected to help bring precision medicine into everyday healthcare in Singapore
Illumina Inc today announced it has been selected to provide wholegenome sequencing services for the SGINSIGHT study a cohort under Phase III of Singapores National Precision Medicine NPM programme Expected to include approximately one in Singapore residents or around individuals
Brise Pharmaceuticals Announces Global License Agreement with AbbVie to Advance the Next-Generation of Migraine Therapies
Brise Pharmaceuticals Co Ltd Brise today provided an update on its exclusive license agreement with AbbVie which the companies entered in Under the terms of the collaboration agreement Brise is responsible for discovery efforts and AbbVie will lead global development and commercialization activitie...
Rhythm Pharmaceuticals and LG Chem Enter into Amendment to Bivamelagon Exclusive License Agreement
Rhythm Pharmaceuticals Inc announced an amendment to the global exclusive license agreement with LG Chem Ltd for bivamelagon an investigational oral smallmolecule melanocortin receptor MCR agonist The Company also announced a fiveyear term loan facility led by KKRs HealthCare
Lonza Signs Agreement to Acquire US CDMO Network from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Significantly Expands its US Presence
Lonza the worlds leading contract development and manufacturing organization CDMO announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire five CDMO manufacturing sites in the US from Merck KGaA Darmstadt Germany at a total enterprise valuation in the low to midtripledigit millions
Merck Opens €300 Million Asia-Pacific Bioprocessing Center in Daejeon, South Korea
Merck a leading science and technology company today opened its new AsiaPacific Bioprocessing Production Center in Daejeon South Korea The center represents an investment of more than million the companys largest Life Science investment in AsiaPacific to date
Flagship Pioneering Forms Etcelera to Move Drug Discovery from Probability to Prediction
Flagship Pioneering a scientific innovation engine for transformative platforms and products today announced the formation of Etcelera a company created by the merger of the platforms of Cellarity Cellarity Platform Inc Etiome and Empress Therapeutics to pioneer causal intelligence in human biology...
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Nov 2026Pharma Forum EMEA 2026
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Nov 2026Cancer R&D 2026
Houston, TX, USA
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Nov 202610th Dermatology Drug Development
Boston, Massachusetts at The C...
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Nov 2026PDA Aseptic Processing of Biopharma Conference
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Nov 2026Advanced Therapies USA
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Nov 2026PDA Contamination Control Strategy Workshop
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Nov 202611th Microbiome Movement USA Summit
The Colonnade Hotel, Boston, M...
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Nov 2026Extractables & Leachables Europe
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DKSH and The Baker Company Partner to Expand Cell Culture and Microbiology Research
DKSH Business Unit Technology has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with The Baker Company to make its Baker Ruskinn range of controlledenvironment technologies available to laboratories across Thailand The partnership aims to improve access to equipment used in cell culture tissue c...
Fresenius Enters into Agreement with WuXi Biologics to Expand Biosimilars Pipeline
Fresenius has entered into an exclusive development agreement with WuXi Biologics to expand its biosimilars pipeline and strengthen its biopharmaceutical business The partnership will give Fresenius access to WuXi Biologics capabilities in biologics research development and manufacturing
Edison Scientific Enters into Agreement with Pfizer to Advance Drug Research and Development
Edison Scientific has entered into an agreement with Pfizer to introduce its Edison AI Platform and AI scientist Kosmos across Pfizers biopharmaceutical research and development activities The collaboration will combine Edison Scientifics artificial intelligence AI technology with Pfizers scientific...
Appian and PSI CRO Partner to Advance AI-driven Clinical Trial Operations
Appian and PSI CRO have entered into a strategic partnership to introduce an artificial intelligence AIpowered solution for clinical trial site identification and selection The solution is now live and is designed to automate site selection across different therapeutic areas medical conditions and...
Adalvo Acquires Romiplostim Biosimilar from Enzene
Adalvo has acquired a romiplostim biosimilar programme from Enzene expanding its portfolio of biosimilars and strengthening its presence in complex biological medicines The programme references Nplate romiplostim a medicine used to treat immune thrombocytopenia ITP in adults and children with chroni...
Twist Bioscience Launches Express Screening Antibodies for Faster Characterisation
Twist Bioscience has expanded its antibody production and characterisation portfolio with the launch of Twist Express Screening Antibodies a service designed to help researchers evaluate large numbers of antibody candidates more quickly The service uses a highthroughput cellfree production process t...