KNOWLEDGE BANK

Interviews

Datamonitor

Analyst
include the changing patent laws as countries aim to become more TRIPS compliant with India updating its law recently and China in the process of doing so through the WTO Increasing globalization of the generics market with Indian companies becoming involved in Europe and the US and vice versa will also provide an opportunity for generics companies

Articles

The Value in Decolonising Drug Discovery

The simplest way to discuss extraction in drug discovery or taking knowledge from a source without attribution is that its a bad habitTo frame it as a historical relic is to misunderstand its persistent and modern reality Cells being taken from a tumor of Henrietta Lacks without consent in remains a topic of contention over years This extends into multinational corporations actively pursue bio...

Research Insights

Targeted proteomics as a tool to detect SARS-CoV-2 proteins in clinical specimens

The rapid sensitive and specific detection of SARSCoV is critical in responding to the current COVID outbreak In this proofofconcept study we explored the potential of targeted mass spectrometry MS based proteomics for the detection of SARSCoV proteins in both research samples and clinical specimens

Case Studies

Novel Vaccines - Heat Stable Anthrax Vaccine

Challenge Existing approved Anthrax vaccines are based on cellfree filtrates of disintegrated cells of Bacillus anthracis adsorbed onto an aluminiumhydrogel adjuvant A number of side effects are attributed to these vaccines including poor safety profile and a low immunogenicity necessitating repea

Techno Trends

Gilead Sciences Discovers Trodelvy® for Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer

Gilead Sciences has developed Trodelvy sacituzumab govitecanhziy for the treatment of adult patients with extensivestage small cell lung cancer ESSCLC whose disease has progressed after platinumbased chemotherapy

White Papers

Cloud Computing in the Laboratory Informatics Solutions and Validation Approaches

In the modern business environment, a significant portion of work is conducted using computerized systems. Many solutions are used to complete tasks, including simple desktop programs like email and Microsoft Office to enterprise-wide, global systems like ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), MES (Manufacturing Execution System), and LIMS

TOP ARTICLES

1

Demystifying Lead-time bias and Length-time bias in Clinical Trials

Jefry Winner G

Jefry Winner G has completed his MBBS from Vinayaka Missions Medical College. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Medicine in Pharmacology at JIPMER Puducherry. He is interested in clinical research and is currently involved in an academic clinical trial involving Epilepsy. He has four years of clinical experience in healthcare and Academia. His area of interest includes Clinical trials, Pharmacotherapeutics, Drug safety, and clinical pharmacology. He also has over 15 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

 

2

Allosteric Modulation: A Paradigm Shift in Pharmaceutical Innovation

Dr. Parth Sarthi Sen Gupta

Dr. Parth Sarthi Sen Gupta is a Computational Biologist specializing in computational drug and vaccine design, with a focus on allosteric modulation. He is an Associate professor in School of Biosciences and Bioengineering, D Y Patil International University. He has published more than 50 research articles and book chapter in reputed peer reviewed Journals. His research work on COVID19 has been highlighted by various national and international news agencies and recognized by World health organizations.

3

Synbiotics in Metabolic Health

Dr. Neeraj Mishra

Dr. Neeraj Mishra is working as Professor and Head, Department of Pharmaceutics,  in Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Gwalior since July 2019. He has around twenty years of teaching and research experience.  He has more than 100 publications of International and National repute in recent concepts of novel drug delivery systems, localised drug delivery, targeted and controlled drug delivery of nanocarriers/ microparticles for the treatment of breast, colon cancer, and neurodegenerative disorders. Dr. Mishra more than 3700 citations with h- index 32. The total cumulative Impact Factor of his published papers is more than 300 (as per SCOPUS). He has also written 15 Books and 30 book chapters in Elsevier, Bentham, Springer and Wiley Publication etc. He has also been granted 3 international patents and 2 Indian patents.  Dr. Mishra is recipient of “Distinguished Professor Award” 2019 from DST-NSTMIS, SPAICS, Indore, and M.P. in September 2019.  Dr. Mishra has received the “Distinguished Professor Award '' 2021 from Indian Pharmaceutical Association, MP State Branch, Indore.  Dr Mishra has received Best Academician Award in the Indian Pharmacy Graduate Association, M.P. State International Conference held on 06th May 2023 at DAVV Auditorium, Indore, India.

Devyani Rajput

Dr. Devyani Rajput is working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacognosy, in Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Gwalior since Jan 2024. She has around seven years of research experience. Her expertise includes nanotechnology, phytomedicine, and advanced drug delivery systems, with notable contributions to cancer research. She has participated in various national and international conferences, published impactful research, and received prestigious awards, including the BEST SCHOLAR AWARD 2023. She has more than 150 citations with h- index 3. She has received the CSIR travel Grant in April 2024 for presenting her research work in Istanbul University.

4

Commissioning the 505(b)(2) Pathways in Hastening the Clinical Translation of Various Drugs via Nanotechnological Approaches

Saurabh Srivastava

Saurabh Srivastava is Associate Professor in Department of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Hyderabad. He carries more than 15 years of profound industrial and research experience working with several Pharmaceutical R&Ds, including IPCA labs, Wockhardt research centre and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories for development and commercialisation of various NDA and ANDA based products for different regulated markets. He is actively involved in execution of several Industrial and Govt. aided research projects for establishment of novel differentiated (505 b 2) product development. He has 02 Commercial Products, 10 International and National Patents, 01 Edited book, 10 Book chapters along with 25 research publications in Journals of International repute to his credit.

 

Saurabh Shah

Saurabh Shah is currently pursuing his Ph.D. from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Hyderabad. He has published 2 research papers, 4 review articles and 2 book chapters in renowned journals. His research focus lies in hastening the clinical translation of nanomedicine-based products from bench to bedside. He has also been involved in numerous industry research and development projects from laboratory to pilot scale up.

 

5

The Emergence of Organ-on-chips for Diseases Studies and Drug Development

Giuseppe Maruccio

Giuseppe Maruccio is Full Professor at Department of Mathematics and Physics – University of Salento and head of Omnics Research Group which comprises researchers with different backgrounds from physics to life sciences working in cross-disciplinary areas  with applications from -onics (electronics, spintronics and magnonics) to -omics technologies (genomics, proteomics and cellomics)

 

Anna Grazia Monteduro

Anna Grazia Monteduro is researcher at Department of Mathematics and Physics - University of Salento in Lecce (Italy) and carries out her research activity within Omnics Research Group in the fields of (i) sensors, lab on chip and organ on chip; (ii) Nanoelectronics, spintronics, nanomagnetism and applied superconductivity.

 

Silvia Rizzato

Silvia Rizzato is researcher at the Department of Mathematics and Physics - University of Salento and carries out her research activity within Omnics Research Group on the development of new devices and processes for sensing and spintronics, including surface acoustic waves devices, electrochemical sensors and colloidal lithography for LSPR sensors.

 

Giusi Caragnano

Giusi Caragnano is a PhD student in Nanotechnologies at the University of Salento - CNR Nanotec and she is part of the Omnics Research Group. Her research activity concerns development of the Organ-on-chip to support the treatment of both chronic and cancerous gastrointestinal diseases

 

press releasesRead more...

Telix and Ekalia to Collaborate on Astatine-211 Production in the U.S.

Telix and Ekalia a joint venture between IBA Ion Beam Applications SA EURONEXT and Framatome today announced a collaboration to advance scalable United States US production of astatine At an alphaemitting radioisotope being investigated for targeted alpha therapy

HistoIndex and A*STAR Partner To Advance Early – Stage Development Of Pipeline Therapies For Fibrotic Diseases

HistoIndex a pioneer in AIdriven digital pathology for fibrotic diseases and the Agency for Science Technology and Research ASTAR Singapores lead public sector RD agency have signed a Memorandum of Understanding MoU to collaborate on the preclinical evaluation

Cotecna Group Acquires Energon Labs

Cotecna a leading provider of Testing Inspection and Certification TIC services today announced the acquisition of Energon Labs a cGMPcompliant USFDAinspected ISO and ISO certified analytical testing laboratory based in Hyderabad India

Waters Launches AI Link, Advancing AI-Enabled LC-MS Workflows from Research to Release

Waters Corporation announced that it has launched Waters AI Link a software capability that brings Anthropics Model Context Protocol MCP to its informatics platform and has joined Anthropics Model Hardware Standard MHS research program

Takeda’s ORZEYFUL (oveporexton) Launches Simultaneously in Japan and China Giving Physicians First Access to Prescribe Novel Orexin Agonist to Patients with Narcolepsy Type 1

Takeda announced that ORZEYFUL oveporexton is now available in Japan and China for the treatment of narcolepsy type NT providing first access to clinicians to prescribe treatment with the new class of medicine ORZEYFUL is a firstinclass orexin receptor OXR agonist in tablet form designed to treat...

Merck Inaugurates State-of-the-Art ADVANCE Bioanalytical Facility on West Point, Pennsylvania, Campus

Merck known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada today inaugurated its stateoftheart ADVANCE research facility on its West Point Pennsylvania campus signaling a new chapter in global scientific discovery Pennsylvania Gov Josh Shapiro joined Merck executive leadership federal and state gove...

EventsRead more...

21 - 23

Oct 2026

21 - 22

Oct 2026

22 - 23

Oct 2026

PDA Aseptic Symposium 2026

Congress Square Nakanoshima, O...

26 - 28

Oct 2026

ACHEMA Middle East 2026

RICEC, Riyadh, KSA, Saudi Arab...

26 - 28

Oct 2026

World Orphan Drug Congress

RAI, Amsterdam, Netherlands

27 - 28

Oct 2026

PM& AC 2026

Novotel Hyderabad Convention C...

28 - 30

Oct 2026

02 - 04

Nov 2026

Pharma Forum EMEA 2026

Dom Pedro Lisboa Hotel, Lisbon...

LATEST NEWSRead more...

UCB Receives Approval for ZILBRYSQ Autoinjector for Adults with Generalised Myasthenia Gravis

UCB has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration FDA for a new autoinjector option for ZILBRYSQ zilucoplan a treatment for adults with generalised myasthenia gravis gMG who test positive for antiacetylcholine receptor AChR antibodies

Nxera Pharma Partners with Synmosa to Commercialise QUVIVIQ

Nxera Pharma has entered into an exclusive licensing supply and commercialisation agreement with Synmosa Biopharma to expand access to QUVIVIQ daridorexant a medicine used to treat insomnia across eight AsiaPacific markets QUVIVIQ was discovered and developed by Idorsia Pharmaceuticals

Vir Biotechnology Enters into Collaboration with Gilead Sciences to Develop T-cell Engagers for Solid Tumours

Vir Biotechnology has entered into a collaboration and licensing agreement with Gilead Sciences to discover and develop three novel Tcell engager TCE candidates for the treatment of solid tumours Tcell engagers are designed to direct T cells a type of immune cell towards cancer cells and help destro...

Zealand Pharma Enters into Collaboration with Generate Biomedicines on AI-Designed Protein Therapies for Metabolic Diseases

Zealand Pharma and Generate Biomedicines have entered into a multitarget collaboration and licensing agreement to develop proteinbased treatments for obesity and other metabolic diseases using artificial intelligence AI The collaboration will combine Zealand Pharmas expertise in metabolic diseases w...

Enodia Therapeutics Enters into Collaboration with Pfizer to Develop Small-Molecule Sec61 Inhibitors

Enodia Therapeutics has entered into a research collaboration and licensing agreement with Pfizer to discover and develop smallmolecule inhibitors targeting Sec a protein complex involved in the movement of newly formed proteins across cell membranes

InnoCare Announces Approval of Clinical Trial of Bispecific Antibody ICP-B161 Targeting TL1A and IL-23p19 in China

InnoCare Pharma a leading biopharmaceutical company focusing on the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases announced today that the Center for Drug Evaluation CDE of Chinas National Medical Products Administration NMPA has approved its Investigational New Drug IND application for ICPB a bispeci...