The need for a blueprint emergency plan to avoid a HPAPI crisis

SMi reports: Taro Pharmaceuticals, Purdue Pharma and Sakari Consultants to present at HPAPI USA taking place on October 21st – 22nd in Boston More>>

CPI to showcase results from BioStreamline project developing novel biotherapeutics

CPI, a UK-based technology innovation centre and a founding member of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, announced today that it will host an event in Darlington, UK on 26 June 2019 to disseminate the results of the £11.2M BioStreamline project to optimise the development of novel therapeutics. During the event, the project partners — Lonza Biologics, UCB Celltech, Sphere Fluidics, Horizon Discovery Group plc (Horizon), Alcyomics Ltd and CPI — will showcase the results and discuss the potential impact on overcoming some of the most significant shortcomings of the biologics supply chain. More>>

AirBridgeCargo expands its passive pharma solutions in partnership with SkyCell as it achieves the two-fold volume increase

AirBridgeCargo expands its passive pharma solutions in partnership with SkyCell as it achieves the two-fold volume increase AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), one of the leaders in transportation of pharmaceutical products by air, and Zurich-based cold-chain ULD manufacturer SkyCell have sealed their partnership for the lease of all types of SkyCell containers to meet the demand for evolving volumes of passive pharmaceutical shipments, which reached around 3,500 tonnes for 1Q 2019 YOY and demonstrated a two-fold increase. More>>

Kallik’s Release 6 sets new benchmarks for speed, accuracy and efficiency

Tamworth, UK – 15 June 2019 – Global provider of labelling and artwork management solutions, Kallik, is launching an update to its AMS360 solution – its Release 6, transforming the experience of the business user, whilst defining new benchmarks for speed, accuracy, and efficiency of global labelling and artwork processes. More>>

Pharmaceutical Packaging and Labelling Summit in Zurich; ACG presentation

At next week’s Pharmaceutical Packaging and Labelling Summit in Zurich (18-19 June), Dr. Eugen Hertel from ACG will be speaking on: Challenges for Global Pharma companies to Implement Anti-Counterfeit Strategy for Russian Track & Trace Regulation. This presentation will include details around ‘the fight against counterfeit medicine - there have been and still are worldwide initiatives to make the supply chain and the safety of medicines secure. After large markets such as the USA and Europe passed their laws and regulations for the pharmaceutical manufacturing companies and established the IT infrastructure, Russia is now next on the move. More>>

Signant Health Appoints Lawrence Miller as Chief Technology Officer

Silicon Valley Innovator Expands Dynamic Leadership Team Committed to Advancing Clinical Research Technology

LONDON & PHILADELPHIA – June 13, 2019: Signant Health, formerly CRF Bracket, has appointed Lawrence Miller as Chief Technology Officer. Signant unites electronic Clinical Outcomes Assessment (eCOA), eConsent, Patient Engagement, Interactive Response Technology (IRT), Clinical Supply Management and Endpoint Quality into the industry’s most comprehensive patient-centric suite of technology solutions and services. An accomplished innovator, Miller brings unique vision and expertise to a Signant team already committed to advancing clinical research with its next-generation technology portfolio. More>>

3P Biopharmaceuticals enters into manufacturing agreement with the Swedish company Affibody

The arrangement covers process transfer, process development and GMP manufacture of Affibody’s candidate

[Noáin, May 27, 2019] 3P Biopharmaceuticals, a leading CDMO specialized in the process development and GMP manufacturing of biologics, has signed a collaboration agreement with the Swedish company Affibody for the process transfer, scale-up and GMP commercial manufacturing of a recombinant protein sole property of Affibody. More>>

Sphere Fluidics Closes a $4.8 million USD (£3.7 million) Funding Round

Cambridge, UK, 10 June 2019: Sphere Fluidics, a company commercializing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, announced today that it has closed an additional tranche of investment of $2.9 million (£2.2 million), securing a total of $4.8 million (£3.7 million) in investment. The funding will be used as working capital for the Company’s Cyto-Mine® Single Cell Analysis System, expansion of the UK facility and enable the doubling of personnel through the opening of a new US Sales Office and Demo Lab in California. More>>

Introducing Signant Health [Formerly CRF Bracket] and the Industry’s Most Comprehensive Patient-Centric Suite for Clinical Research

New brand focused on essential, patient-centered technology to simplify global drug development

Philadelphia and London – June 10, 2019: CRF Bracket, formed by the 2018 merger of CRF Health and Bracket, today launched as Signant Health (signanthealth.com). Uniting eCOA, eConsent, Patient Engagement, IRT, Clinical Supplies and Endpoint Quality into the industry’s most comprehensive patient-centric suite, Signant makes it easier to participate in – and sites and study teams to run – clinical trials. This intense focus on the patient experience, deep therapeutic area expertise and global operational scale enable sponsors and CROs to extend the reach of drug development, expand patient opportunities and improve data quality. More>>

Applikon Biotechnology collaborates with Emerson for new Life Sciences R&D solution: V-Control

Applikon Biotechnology has launched V-Control for R&D scale bioreactors, a sophisticated automation solution developed in collaboration with Emerson. It uses a scaled version of Emerson’s DeltaV distributed control system (DCS), DeltaV Discovery, designed for research and discovery laboratories. V-Control enables easy process control and data up-scaling in one platform. Furthermore, it provides organizations that already use the DeltaV DCS at production scale with reliable automation scaled to fit the needs of the laboratory environment, making tech transfer easier. More>>