Survey Finds Industry Taking Action to Address Challenges from Rapid Move to Decentralized Trials Amid COVID-19

95% of clinical leaders now focused on establishing a connected digital foundation for patient-centric trials

Sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) are accelerating digital transformation to advance toward patient-centric, paperless, and decentralized trials, according to the Digital Clinical Trials Survey Report conducted by Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV). More>>

Moderna Announces FDA Advisory Committee Unanimously Votes in Support of Emergency Use for a Booster Dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine in the U.S.

Positive unanimous vote for mRNA-1273 booster at the 50 µg dose level for individuals aged 65 and older as well as individuals aged 18 through 64 at high risk of contracting COVID-19 at least 6 months after completion of the primary series

Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, today confirmed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) recommended that the FDA grant an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for a booster dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. More>>

SONOTEC presents high accuracy flow meters for enhanced process quality and reproducibility at the Interphex show in New York

SONOTEC is back on the road again and presents its leading SONOFLOW® CO.55 clamp-on flow meters at the Interphex 2021 in New York. The highly accurate sensors are used in a wide range of applications, starting from process development to large-scale GMP production. More>>

PPMA Show 2021 celebrates great success as it leads the way to build back business

The UK’s largest processing and packaging machinery event returned to the NEC, Birmingham (28-30 September) following the cancellation of the 2020 Show. Hailed as a great success by exhibitors and visitors, over 250 exhibitors and 1,250 brands showcased the latest innovations in smart manufacturing, processing equipment and packaging solutions. More>>

Owen Mumford Launches New 2-Step Single-Use Auto-Injector Platform Aidaptus®

OXFORD, England, 22nd September - Owen Mumford Pharmaceutical Services, a division of Owen Mumford Ltd. has launched its new Aidaptus® auto-injector platform following successful completion of development. Aidaptus is a 2-step, spring-powered, single use auto-injector with a versatile design that accommodates both 1mL and 2.25 mL prefilled glass syringes in the same base device. It also features stopper sensing technology with a self-adjusting plunger that automatically adapts to the individual stopper positions and different fill volumes in each syringe, with no change parts required. The auto-injector is available with two different spring strengths to accommodate a variety of drug viscosities. More>>

B Medical Systems launches €15m factory extension in Luxembourg

B Medical Systems (BMS), a global leader in the medical cold chain industry and manufacturer of ultra-low freezers, vaccine refrigerators, freezers, and transport boxes has unveiled a €15m extension at its manufacturing facility in Hosingen, Luxembourg. BMS launched the manufacturing facility in January 2021, which was attended by His Royal Highness Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Prince Guillaume. More>>

Biognosys Announces the Launch of its Next-Generation Plasma Biomarker Discovery Solution

The new and improved workflow will offer unprecedented depth and quantitative precision, identifying up to 3,000 plasma proteins

October 5th, 2021 – SCHLIEREN, (Zurich, Switzerland). Biognosys, a leader in next-generation proteomics solutions for drug discovery and development, today announces the upcoming launch of its next-generation plasma biomarker discovery solution. More>>

Syntegon and Vetter win PDA Drug Delivery Innovation Award for Versynta microBatch

Waiblingen/Germany, October 6, 2021. Together with Vetter, an international pharmaceutical service provider for injectables, Syntegon (formerly Bosch Packaging Technology) has won the PDA Drug Delivery Innovation Award. In the "Partnership Innovation" category, the Parental Drug Association (PDA) honors development projects by pharmaceutical and machine manufacturers that advance the production of (bio)pharmaceuticals. The collaboration between Vetter and Syntegon resulted in Versynta microBatch, a highly flexible and fully automated production cell with a gloveless isolator, the smallest possible dimensions and a complete batch-to-batch changeover of less than two hours. More>>

Five methods for reducing pharmaceutical cargo theft

In North America, five percent of cargo thefts that occurred in 2020 were pharmaceutical products and 74 percent of all cargo theft occurred in transit, according to the BSI and TT Club Cargo Theft Report 2021. In the US and Canada, the biggest threat comes when containers or trailers are parked at insecure locations, as those were the most exploited vulnerabilities last year. Market dynamics also changed due to Covid-19, as demonstrated by the fact that the theft of stolen cargo in the form of medical supplies such as PPE, increased by more than 5,000 per cent in 2020, compared to 2019. More>>

Qatar Airways Cargo and ECS Group celebrate one year of serving Lyon

Since its first flight on 17SEP20, the leading international cargo airline, together with ECS Group, the world’s largest integrated GSSA, has flown more than 5 million kilos out of Lyon, France More>>