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Roquette unveils $25m centre for next-gen oral dosage forms

Today’s grand opening feels like the start of something special for Roquette"

Bora and Celltrion team up on oral dosage form drugs

The range of oral dosage form products will be manufactured at Bora’s Zhunan Site, one of the largest pharmaceutical production facilities in Taiwan

BioNxt signs agreement to acquire novel solid oral drug dosage tech

"This coating system could significantly improve oral tablet and oral capsule drug delivery with more precise drug release and predictable dosing."

Testing special-order medicines

The importance of testing “specials” and the process required

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Stablepharma closes series A funding round to progress fridge-free vaccines and mRNA/LNP stabilisation technologies

Stablepharma, the fridge-free vaccine company closed their series A funding round having secured £5.2 million with lead investors Hamilton Portfoli...

Small molecules: big market opportunities

The rapid rise of biologic drugs in recent years has been accompanied by a market narrative that suggests that innovation and new treatments will b...

Manufacturing Chemist LIVE 2022 in review (part I)

Taking a front row seat during the two-day pharmaceutical conference in Birmingham, UK, Dr Kevin Robinson reports on what’s new, emerging and excit...

Novartis and MMV move to Phase III study to treat uncomplicated malaria

As the world faces emerging resistance to current malaria treatments, new medicines are needed to continue the fight toward elimination

DFE Pharma opens Indian OSD-focused pharma support centre

The company has planned to provide services that are mainly focus on oral solid dosage (OSD) forms and comprise a range of pre-registration work i...

Adding a new chapter to the history of capsule-based drug delivery

For more than 100 years, capsules have consisted of two pieces (a body and a cap). Nutritional or pharmaceutical ingredients are dosed into the bod...

Influence of material and capsule filling process on DPI aerosolisation performance

The effect of capsule filling parameters on emitted dose and fine particle fraction by a DPI was investigated using a benchtop capsule filling devi...

Iconovo receives $883,800 grant to develop inhaled therapies with ICOone Nasal for the next pandemic

The aim of the project is to develop a nasal inhaler that can be rapidly upscaled for industrial manufacturing to produce millions of inhalers at t...

Experience is everything: excipients and their role in enhancing patient-centricity

It’s a hard pill to swallow, but medication adherence is one of the toughest challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry today, writes Arnaud Ver...

DFE Pharma expands its inhalation portfolio with the launch of Lactohale 400

Being a leader in dry powder inhalation, DFE Pharma further expands its broad excipient portfolio of inhalation grade lactose

Outsourcing your highly potent oncology drug product

Scientific progress has transformed the research and discovery (R&D) of new therapies and the treatment of cancer during the past decade, reports R...