Biologics process development establishes manufacturing processes designed to consistently deliver product of the required ...

Designing an efficient platform is crucial for any industrial process. This design process is known as process development, and it has become increasingly important in the pharmaceutical industry at ...

Bispecific antibodies have emerged as a rapidly growing biologic modality that can engage two distinct biological targets within a single molecule. Their unique mechanisms of action have created new ...

Although the U.S. chemical industry has suffered unusually severe job losses as a result of the Great Recession, a few safe harbors still offer shelter from the economic storms. Biotech firms, for ...

A platform approach to bioprocessing uses the same set of protocols and systems found during early phase development. Scientists then transfer the protocols, by either scaling-up or scaling-out, ...

The challenges of vaccine development are not limited to identification of suitable antigens, adjuvants and delivery methods, but include regulatory, technical and manufacturing hurdles in translating ...

Process development is an important aspect of biopharmaceutical development.1,2 Through studies in the pharmaceutical industry, Pisano suggests that companies able to develop and implement new process ...

Chemical engineers and chemists each bring unique skills to API process development and optimization. Success depends on their close collaboration, at both sponsor and CDMO facilities. In API ...

Drug firms seeking to make manufacturing as efficient as possible must be willing to hand some parts of process development over to machines, according to a leading researcher. Automation has been ...

While Lean principles have been known and applied in a variety of manufacturing processes, the applications in product development have been slower to come. Several companies have also applied Lean to ...

Agile is a type of software development methodology that anticipates the need for flexibility and applies a level of pragmatism to the delivery of the finished product. Agile software development ...