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Interviews

Ensuring Ethics in AI-Driven Drug Safety

Senior Director of Pharmacovigilance and Risk Management at Curis Inc.
Ashish Jain is Senior Director of Pharmacovigilance and Risk Management at Curis Inc with over years of experience in drug safety He is also leading the Innovation Working Group at the North American Society of Pharmacovigilance NASoP his expertise in combining technological innovation with patient safety makes him uniquely qualified to address the ethical challenges of AI implementation in pharm...

Articles

A Structured Review on BCRP-Mediated Multidrug Resistance

Many of the human ABC proteins are efflux transporters and three of them namely Pglycoprotein Pgp gene symbol ABCB the multidrug resistance protein MRP gene symbol ABCC and the breast cancer resistance protein BCRP gene symbol ABCG have been implicated to be the major efflux transporters responsible for multidrug resistance in cancer cells

Research Insights

Validated Spectrometric Determination Of Penciclovir And Entecavir In Bulk And In Pharmaceutical Preparations

Abstract Simple rapid and sensitive spectroscopic methods were developed and validated for the determination of antiviral agents namely penciclovir PCV and entecavir ETV The first method is based on measuring the native fluorescence of each of the cited drugs at its optimum excitation and emission wavelengths The fluorescence intensity was measured for PCV

Case Studies

Impact Of Substitution Among Generic Drugs On Persistence And Adherence:a Retrospective Claims Data Case Study

Abstract Once the period of exclusivity on a reference medicine expires it is possible to apply for marketing of a generic version of that medicine By definition a generic product is considered interchangeable with the innovator brand product when it demonstrates the same qualitative and quantitative composition in active substances the same pharmaceutical form and bi...

Techno Trends

MannKind Introduces First-and-Only Afrezza® Therapy for Treating Diabetes in Children and Adolescents

MannKind has introduced Afrezza for the treatment of diabetes in children and adolescents aged six years and older requiring mealtime insulin therapy

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

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The Potential of Cell Free Chromatin Inhibition in Cancer

Divya S Mishra

Divya Mishra is a board certified oncologist with over 17 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical/CRO industry, clinical practice, and academia, in areas of oncology/haematology, family medicine, palliative medicine, and outcomes research. Mishra has worked across multiple geographies and diverse, multicultural settings for organisations such as Pfizer, IQVIA, and SFJ. She is currently working at ICON as a medical director and therapeutic expert for the oncology/haematology disease areas in the APAC region, based in the regional headquarters in Singapore.

 

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Machine Learning for New Drugs

Sneha Rai

Sneha Rai completed her Ph.D. from Computational and Structural Biology Lab., Department of Biological Sciences and Engineering at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (DU). She did masters in Bioinformatics from Banaras Hindu University and holds six years of bioinformatics research experience. Her area of interest includes structural bioinformatics, systems biology, protein/gene network analysis, data mining, computer aided drug designing, computational genomics, NGS data analysis, variant analysis and their clinical interpretation.

 

Venugopal Bhatia

Venugopal Bhatia graduated from NSIT in 2019 with a B.E. in Biotechnology. During his undergraduate studies he was involved as an undergraduate researcher at the Computational and Structural Biology Laboratory and worked on two projects which were later published in Nature Scientific Reports and Elsevier Computational Biology and Chemistry. After a brief stint in industry, he's now pursuing his Master's at Yale.

 

Sonika Bhatnagar

Sonika Bhatnagar, Ph.D. (Biophysics), AIIMS works in the broad area of computational molecular biology. Her laboratory uses techniques of drug target selection, drug design & discovery, machine learning, and integrative genomics & proteomics towards Cardiovascular disease drug design and infectious disease therapeutics.

 

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Beyond the Cold Chain

Dr. Mary Manoranjani Addanki

Dr. Mary Manoranjani Addanki, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Head of Pharmaceutics at Malla Reddy College of Pharmacy. With 17 years of expertise, she specialises in nanotechnology, pulmonary vaccines, and advanced drug delivery. An award-winning researcher and patent holder, her work focuses on stabilising vaccines and developing innovative dosage forms.

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The Role of Technology in Continued Process Verification 4.0

Kavita Vengurlekar

Dr. Kavita is a seasoned leader in the field of data and insights, with over 20 years of invaluable experience. She is a result-oriented solution designer in data warehouse and big data analytics. Drawing from her extensive in multinational organisations IBM, Capgemini, and others, Kavita has successfully overseen numerous large and intricate projects. Her expertise lies in effectively leveraging her robust technical knowledge in areas such as data warehousing and business intelligence to drive impactful outcomes. Under Dr. Kavita's exceptional leadership, the CaliberAPQR product has achieved outstanding recognition.

 

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Transforming Customer Engagement in Life Sciences Adopting Hybrid Commercial Models (HCMs)

Rohit K

 

 is a Practice Director at the Life Sciences IT Services team, leading commercial technology research and client engagements. He has worked with business and IT leaders on strategy, M&A, and market intelligence. Previously a Consultant at EY, Rohit holds an MBA from FMS, Delhi University, and an engineering degree from NIT Jalandhar.

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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...

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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...