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Advancing Pharma Innovation & Drug Development | Thermo Fisher Scientific | ISPE 2026 | Pharma Focus Asia

Senior Director, Head of Business Development APAC, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Koji Tanimoto is Senior Director of Biotech Account Management APAC at Thermo Fisher Scientifics Pharma Services Group Previously he served as Senior Director and Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific and Japan at Patheon also holding the title of Director at Patheon In Japan Since he led business development across both Patheons CDMO operations and Fisher Clinical Services clinical trial...

Articles

Quercetin - A Super Food For Therapeutic Interventions

Quercetin a member of the flavonoid family found in regularly consumed foods has received interest in nutrition circles for its ability to alter various biological processes Quercetin is a yellow crystalline substance with a bitter taste that is entirely insoluble in cold water soluble in lipids and alcohol and very slightly soluble in hot water

Research Insights

Loading Of Tacrolimus Containing Lipid Based Drug Delivery Systems Into Mesoporous Silica For Extended Release

Abstract Many studies had been focused on designing tacrolimus sustained release preparations based on solid dispersion technique but no one had tried to employ mesoporous silica as the carrier material to realize this goal The purpose of this study was to develop a novel simple and environmental friendly drug loading method with mesoporous silica to obtain tacr

Case Studies

Out-Of-Hours Antibiotic Prescription After Screening With C Reactive Protein: A Randomised Controlled Case Study

Abstract Fever respiratory symptoms and infections are common among children in primary care especially at outofhours OOH services Serious infections have low prevalence in primary care and even more so after introduction of vaccines for Haemophilus influenzae type B and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines It is challenging for clinicians to distinguish se

Techno Trends

A Breakthrough Therapy Discovered for Polycythemia Vera (PV)

Rusfertide a breakthrough therapy discovered for the treatment of patients with Polycythemia Vera PV Rusfertide reduces the erythrocytosis in those patients who do not require further treatment for thrombocytosis andor leucocytosis

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

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3D Printing Revolutionising Nanotechnology

Mansi Athalye

Mansi Athalye is Assistant Professor in Department of Pharmaceutics at L. M. College of Pharmacy, India with approx. 10 years of teaching and research experience. She has published 12 papers in international and national journals and has presented 22 papers in various conferences as author and co-author with 1 Indian Patent granted in 2018.

 

Sagar Popat

Sagar Popat is research student pursuing M. Pharmacy in Pharmaceutics at L. M. College of Pharmacy. He has worked on the topic ‘Cataract of goat eye lens by Invitro and Ex-vivo method’. He has published 1 research article and has won 1st prize in oral presentation at national level conference.

 

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Advanced Nanobots for ‘Programmed’ Biomedical Applications

Amaresh Kumar Sahoo

Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Sciences, Indian Institute of Information Technology

Saurabh Shivalkar

Research Fellow, Department of Applied Sciences, Indian Institute of Information Technology

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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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Repurposed Drugs against the Latest Variants of Concerns of SARS-CoV-2

Sinosh Skariyachan

Sinosh Skariyachan Ph.D. is presently working as Assistant Professor in Microbiology at St. Pius X College, Rajapuram  (Aided by Govt. of Kerala, India), Kasaragod, Kerala, India with more than 17 years of experience in teaching and research. One of his key areas of research is computational drug discovery and medicinal chemistry. He has published more than 75 international papers, book chapters, and text books. He is the editor of prestigious journals such as Computers in Biology and Medicine (Elsevier), Frontiers in Microbiology and a referee for more than 125 international journals. He received several awards and grants.

 

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Trump Tariff Tyranny and Pharma Preparedness

Dr. M Aamir Mirza

Dr. M. Aamir Mirza is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics, Jamia Hamdard, an NIRF Rank 1 institute and a NAAC ‘A+” grade deemed to be University. He has a multifaceted career portfolio adorned with both industry and academic accomplishments. During his industry stay he became a seasoned scientist and dealt with challenging NCE/NDA development. He is on advisory boards of some international research-based companies of India, New Zealand and Europe. Academics and Research being close to his heart, he has published more than 110 manuscripts in the journals of international repute and has been granted 02 Indian patent and filed for 04. He has contributed several chapters in books published by reputed authors like Elsevier and Bentham. He is amongst the very few scientists globally who has an expertise in Humic substances research. A well-travelled scientist; he has delivered scientific addresses in countries like USA, Austria, Japan, Netherlands, Turkey, Estonia, Spain and Russia. He has been Elite Fellow at University of Malaya (Malaysia) for the last 5 years where he takes classes on the topics related to industrial pharmacy.

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First FDA Breakthrough Therapy designation in PSMA PET imaging granted to Cu-64 SAR-bisPSMA in biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer

Clarity PharmaceuticalsASX CU Clarity or Company a clinicalstage radiopharmaceutical company with a mission to develop nextgeneration products that improve treatment outcomes for patients with cancer is pleased to announce that

Pfizer and Blackstone Life Sciences Announce Strategic Funding Agreement for Obesity Program

Pfizer Inc NYSE PFE and Blackstone Life Sciences Blackstone today announced a strategic cofunding agreement under which funds managed by Blackstone will pay up to a total of billion of development

Circio and Solid Biosciences enter collaboration to evaluate circVec and POLARIS-101 technology for Genetic Heart Disease

Circio Holding ASA OSE CRNA a biotechnology company developing novel circular RNA expression technology for gene and cell therapy today announces a research collaboration with Solid Biosciences Inc

EirGenix and Merck enter Partnership to Strengthen Global Biologics Development Through Integrated BioReliance® Testing and Regulatory Support

EirGenix Inc and Merck have signed a nonlegally binding memorandum of understanding MOU to support EirGenixs IND and BLA enabling biologics pipeline development The MOU outlines Merck as one of EirGenixs preferred contract testing services vendors providing comprehensive BioReliance services

ProBio Enters Exclusive Global Licensing Agreement with AbTis to Develop Next-Generation ADC Asset

ProBio a global contract research development and manufacturing organization CRDMO today announced that it has entered into an exclusive global licensing agreement with AbTis Co Ltd

AGC Biologics partners with Child’s Cure Genetic Research to pursue mRNA-based therapeutic for severe epileptic disorder

In a world where patients with CDKL deficiencies can suffer to epileptic seizures a day a contract biopharmaceutical manufacturer and a parentfounded foundation will partner on earlystage

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Immuneering has entered into a clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement with Astellas Pharma to evaluate investigational combination therapies for patients with pancreatic cancer

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