Sustainability has become a primary focus for many pharmaceutical manufacturers and suppliers, but there is more to sustainability than employing multi-use supplies and materials. To learn more, Pharmaceutical Commerce sat down with Kevin Lynch, Vice President of Global Sales at QProducts & Services, to learn more about the company’s initiatives…

Ensuring Ethical Practices in Light of Potential Misuse In this part of his Pharmaceutical Executive video interview, Jim Shehan, chair of the FDA Regulatory practice, Lowenstein Sandler, talks about what steps companies developing weight-loss medications should take to ensure responsible and ethical practices. Drug Shortages in Community Oncology: Ensuring Access…

PC: You had previously penned a byline for Pharma Commerce in which you described how the biosimilars market has experienced massive growth, but regulatory and adoption challenges remain. Could you elaborate further on that? Gregory: Things are moving very quickly in the biosimilars world as they always have been. I…

Improving Quality of Care for Cancer Patients In fourth and final part of this video interview, Marc Buyse, founder, and Sebastien Coppe, CEO; both of One2Treat emphasize the importance of personalizing oncology studies and giving patients more choices. Why We Can’t Give Up on Value-Based Care | AHIP 2024 Scott…

Wacker Biotech, a therapeutic protein contract manufacturer, recently opened up an mRNA competence center at its biotech site in Halle (Saale), Germany.1 The new facility—which broke ground in 20222 and was funded for $107 million—has the capability to handle large-scale manufacturing of active ingredients based on messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA),…

PC: You recently penned your first byline, which has appeared in the June issue of Pharma Commerce. What does it discuss? Powers: What I’m doing here in the first write up is really contemplating digital platforms and dynamic pricing models, and what they’ve accomplished in other sectors. And really having an…

Image Credit: Adobe Stock Images/Pornfa.com In a recent webinar1 hosted by Systech, a provider of digital identification and traceability solutions, and IDC, a market intelligence firm, the speakers were brought together in an effort to address the challenges presented by the pharmaceutical supply chain. Titled “Solving the pharmaceutical supply chain…

Image Credit: UPS Healthcare UPS Healthcare has decided to further grow its European hub facility in Roermond, Netherlands by 235,299 square feet, and will be using that additional space for in-demand freezer farms, which serve as a collection of ultra-low cold storage units that preserve biological samples for long periods,…

Image Credit: Adobe Stock Images/GraphicRoyalty.com Estrogen receptor–positive (ER+) breast cancer—which is when cancer cells with receptors attach to estrogen—make up more than 70% of all breast cancer diagnoses. Receptors must be found in more than 10% of cancers in order to be considered ER.+ To combat this, the use of…

Image Credit: Berkeley Investments Discovery Life Sciences, a provider of biospecimen solutions and laboratory services, is opening a new 53,000 square-foot office and laboratory site in Malden, MA.1 This specific facility marks the company’s seventh facility in the United States—its third in the Greater Boston area—alongside its Woburn and Quincy locations. The Malden plant is intended to directly…