Summary: As the biologics industry continues to grow, biopharmaceutical companies are evaluating continuous processing as a potential means to improve efficiencies. There are many factors to consider when determining whether continuous processing should be adopted, and if so, what adoption strategy should be used...

Summary: Bioassay automation offers ergonomic relief for scientists, consistent method execution, increased throughput, and reduced full-time equivalent expenditure. Importantly, successful automation programs allow unparalleled efficiency in method transfer to receiving laboratories. oderated Q&A roundtable...

Summary: The number of more complex biopharmaceuticals in development continues to increase. These include molecules like virus-like particle vaccines, proteins that require cleavage, or other additional post-translational modifications not typically performed by CHO cells, and more recently, numerous different multi-specific antibody platforms...

Summary: Get to know how Catalent's scientists have utilized ambr 15® as a micro-scale model for a synergistic clonal and process screen to identify the master cell bank candidates. Using this multi-layered approach, early in the development process significantly improves selection of top clones while shortening the overall timeline...

Summary: With the increasing complexity of biologics and growing competition with players ranging from small start-ups to large pharma, an aggressive development timeline is required to bring your biologic drug to clinic faster...

Summary: Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) have become de rigueur for pharmaceutical oncology drug development pipelines. There are more than 40 ADCs undergoing clinical trials and many more in preclinical development. This webinar hosted by Elsevier's Drug Discovery Today presented novel protein modification platform and its application...

Summary: Advances in single-use bioreactor technologies offer rapid development pathways when combined with creative upstream process development strategies. When aggressive program timelines are required, the application of multiplexed conditions coupled with smart CMC decisions that maximize yields...

Summary: From a virological safety standpoint, biopharmaceuticals have had an excellent safety record. This can be attributed to regulatory and industry initiatives that have worked synergistically...

Summary: Biologic therapy has revolutionized the medical treatment landscape. However, simplicity and ease of administration remains a challenge to achieve long-term patient compliance and optimal therapeutic outcomes. Given the high cost of biologic therapies...

Summary: The use of biosimilars in clinical trials is on the rise. Often tightly controlled or in short supply, sourcing the necessary drugs can be challenging. Given the variability of biosimilars, studies using these products are particularly at risk for supply-related delay and cost overruns unless proactively managed from the beginning...