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Navigating a complex life sciences environment in 2023

Competition, complex new science and regulatory changes have been compounded by economic tightening. In 2023 and beyond, smaller biopharma companies in particular will need to rethink their strategies to attract investors, carefully plan how and with whom they outsource and ensure they understand the finer nuances of the regulations when they seek to globalize. Mark Lane and Rami Scharf of PharmaLex describe the challenges ahead.

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Are agile supply chain management and blockchain beneficial to industry and patients? Focus group with healthcare and pharmaceutical professionals. Part 2

Healthcare and pharmaceutical companies daily deal with a variety of corporative use cases with downstream impacts on patients that also have upstream effects on performance and innovation. There is an unmet need in this industry for supply chain management, as it is only recently emerging. Pilot projects are already underway, and some have already been adopted by some companies.
By using a focus group method with industry professionals and subject matter experts, this paper will examine whether blockchain and agile supply chains can contribute to healthcare and pharmaceutical innovation.
In this study, data collected and analyzed was used to evaluate the degree to which industry leaders and professionals are aware of blockchain and its role in supporting and generating innovation in agile supply chains.
Using network analysis to uncover respondents’ relationships and connections, we can determine how blockchain and agile supply chain management are interconnected.

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  Plaque psoriasis is a common, chronic, immune-mediated disease characterized by scaly, erythematous, and

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Integrating Quality into production to drive cost-effective innovation

As innovative biotech products and personalised therapies progress from lab-based scientific research to human clinical trials and full-scale production, companies are being forced to adapt their Quality processes. Dr. Eduard Cayón of Rephine/ TDV explains how reimagining Quality processes can help get these potentially expensive emerging therapies to market.

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Particle Engineering to Optimise the Performance of Inhaled Therapeutics

Aerosol dispersion and deposition performance from dry powder inhalers are dependent on drug particle aerodynamic diameter and size distribution, formulation composition (including surface modification and bulking agents), inhaler device and patient operation. This review will focus on ‘bottom-up’ particle engineering technologies for providing drug delivery by dry powder inhalation. By ‘designing-in’ performance of drug particles and/or drug composite systems, emerging commercial ‘bottom-up’ particle formation technologies allow for the generation of powders that exhibit good aerodynamic performance, excellent inter- and intra-batch variability with less dependence on the delivery device, as well as enhanced physical and chemical stability. There is an opportunity to obtain co-deposition of drug and carrier materials, surface acting agents and / or multiple drugs at the same site of dissolution / absorption that can lead to an improved clinical outcome for both local and systemic delivery.

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Progress in flow chemistry

The inventory in a flow reactor at any point is a small fraction of the total material being processed. This is an inherently better solution than batch methods in virtually all respects. Capability, however, is dictated by the flow reactor type and size. Current devices generally fall into three areas of use: micro reactors for research, specialised reactors for difficult or dangerous chemistry and large dedicated flow reactors for bulk chemicals. Despite progress, over 90% of industrial chemicals by type are still made in batch reactors. Large parts of the process industries rely on high volume reactors capable of handling different operations. The underlying principles for equivalent capability in flow are well established but as yet, underexploited.

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