Suggestions Welcome

February 11

As we prepare for the first issue of The Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manufacturing & Marketplace Report, a new specialized biweekly newsletter of Pharmaceutical Technology and BioPharm International, scheduled for Feb. 27, we are interested in gaining your input on topics of interest to you. The eNewsletter is an exclusive feature of the new Pharmaceutical Technology/BioPharm International Marketplace, an online community focused on products and services for drug development and manufacturing, which will be launching in beta shortly and formally in April.

The Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manufacturing & Marketplace Report will provide insight in five main communities: solid dosage, semisolid, and specialty dosage forms; parenterals; chemical API manufacturing; biologic API manufacturing; and pharmaceutical analysis. We want to be sure to cover the latest research and development activities with real commercial potential, product and service innovations, and leading thoughts and positions on the most important issues in the fast-changing pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical manufacturing marketplace.

What better way to do so than to have our readers tell us what they want to know?

We welcome your suggestions. Is there a certain solid dosage application for which you need to find an appropriate excipient? Do you need to learn more about continuous manufacturing or process analytical technology? Are there aspects of quality by design for parenterals that you would like clarified?

We will be speaking with scientists and manufacturing experts from the pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical companies, CMOs and CDMOs, equipment and analytical instrument manufacturers, excipient producers, catalyst and cell-media suppliers, leading academicians, and top industry trade associations. Some of the topics you can look forward to in future issues of the The Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manufacturing & Marketplace Report include:

·         Solid-dosage: spray drying; continuous tableting equipment; taste-masking;

·         Parenterals : prefilled syringes; lyophilization; equipment issues

·         Chemical API manufacturing: new alliances for biocatalyst development; chiral catalysts; fluorochemistry; high-throughput equipment

·         Biologic API manufacturing: production of fragile cells; raw-material qualification; cell- culture media; peptoids

·         Pharmaceutical analysis: advances in ultra high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC); microbiological testing; fluorescence spectroscopy; protein analysis

We believe these are important issues in pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing. But you are the experts. Please let us know if there are particular topics, or even certain aspects of particular topics, that you would like to see examined.

We want The Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manufacturing & Marketplace Report to contain information that is helpful to you. So please be sure to let us know on this blog what you need to know, and we will do our best to get answers to those questions.

If you haven’t yet, please sign up to receive The Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manufacturing & Marketplace Report here.

Cynthia A. Challener, PhD

Editor, The Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manufacturing & Marketplace Report