Mihajlo Ceraj Ceri, Life Sciences Director, and Marijo Volarevi, VP Business Services at Infotehna, investigate how generic drug manufacturers can benefit utilising document management solutions in managing the drug development process.
Pierre-Olivier Tremblay, Associate Director of Pharmacometrics Clinical Pharmacology at Pharmanet l3, describes how pharmacometrics uses the application of mathematics to analyse vast amounts of data about disease progression, drug response, and clinical behaviour.
The SDR SensorDish® Reader has allowed for the quantitation of in vitro oxygen concentrations during the culture of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells isolated from human umbilical cord blood. The influence of simulated physiological oxygen concentrations on HSPC proliferation, cell cycle status and expression of markers of stem cell phenotype or differentiated cell types were examined concurrently with the monitoring of real-time oxygen concentrations in the cell culture media. Timothy McKinnon, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, demonstrated the usefulness of this system for examinations of cell phenotype and function in conditions that effectively mimic the in vivo oxygen environment.
Accidental poisoning is common amongst young children. As a natural part of their early development children explore their environment using their senses to ‘play’ with items that are new to them. They cannot differentiate between items that are safe and items that may be harmful to them. Tim Bollans, Marketing & Sales Executive at Burgopak Healthcare & Technology, examines how child-resistant packaging has been a part of the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries for the last forty-five years, but only recently has the need for real innovation been at the forefront of the industry
The food and beverage and pharmaceutical industries have often mirrored each other in the way they use similar technologies in their respective production processes. Automation is one such area, particularly when it comes to robotics. Having been embraced in increasing numbers by food manufacturers, robots are increasingly finding their way into many pharmaceutical manufacturing processes as well. Nigel Platt, Sales & Marketing Manager for ABB’s UK robotics business, explains the benefits robots have already been proven to deliver in pharmaceutical applications, and examines the scope for future application of the technology.
Cleaning in Place has been around for approximately 50 years, and is commonly used in hygiene critical industries, such as food, beverage and pharmaceuticals, to clean a wide range of plants. Timo Bleschke, Product Manager Pneumatic and Process Interfaces at Bürkert Fluid, explores Cleaning in Place within the pharmaceutical industry.
Clinical research organisations are becoming more aware of the benefits of engaging with medical photographers, who are highly specialised in their profession, to ensure the accuracy, suitability and integrity of the visual data that supports or validates a clinical trial. Jo Truelove, Senior Medical Photographer at Illingworth Research, explains what was once seen as an optional extra is now being viewed as a service that has a substantial impact on proving or disproving a compound’s value in a study, potentially saving significant costs and, more importantly, lives
At the heart of European Life Sciences, the Netherlands offers a longstanding tradition of biomedical research. In the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area, scientific excellence is empowered by metropolitan strengths, turning the region into a unique hotspot for life sciences. Sandra Migchielsen, Senior Project Manager / Cluster Manager for Life Sciences at Amsterdam Innovation Motor, hosting BIO-Europe Spring® in March 2012, illustrates how the region is building its niche as the Netherlands’ only BioMetropolitan Area.
In any major pharmaceutical operation there are hundreds of different functions, departments and teams. Trying to understand how it all fits together can be a nightmare. Just to make it more complicated there are also different ‘views’ of the organisation – functional hierarchy, therapy areas, project structures, and so on. John Faulkes, Key Associate from PPMLD describes how the pharma business fits together.
The healthcare industry is challenged with meeting stringent quality requirements regarding the manufacturing of drug products. Packaging components are critical to this operation.
