2020 Avoca Quality and Innovation Summit

3-4 June 2020, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The 2020 Avoca Quality and Innovation Summit will take place 3-4 June 2020, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Faster, Better, Cheaper: Lean as a Driving Force Behind Pharmaceutical Companies’ Growth

TBM Consulting Group

The pharmaceutical industry faces countless challenges: patent expirations, weak product development pipelines, downward pricing pressure and an increasingly burdensome regulatory environment. The most important question for companies is now “How can we position ourselves optimally to be successful in the long term?” Some pharmaceutical companies used the economic downturn in 2009 to embrace measures in the fields of cost reduction and efficiency increases, which can be implemented at short notice. The continuous and consistent implementation of sustainable measures that guarantee stability and form the basis for future growth was not necessarily paramount within this.
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‘FDA should withdraw ANDAs’, and ‘new technologies could bring massive improvements in efficiency’ if implemented correctly

Amsterdam, 21st October 2019: CPhI Worldwide – the world’s largest pharma event taking place in Frankfurt (5th-7th November 2019) – has released the first part of its eponymous 2019 Annual Report. Experts Bikash Chatterjee, President and Chief Science Officer at Pharmtech Associates and Girish Malhotra, President of EPCOT International discuss how manufacturing could be revolutionised by new technologies, but warn, that regulators must change to prevent hindering future innovation.
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