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Innovation Management at Bachem

Chief Technology Officer, Bachem Holding AG
Gnther Loidl joined Bachem in He held several functions in Research and Development RD and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Manufacturing and became Vice President RD in Since he is CTO of the Bachem Group and a member of the Corporate Executive Committee He studied chemistry in Regensburg Germany and Leeds UK and obtained his doctorate under the supervision of Luis Moroder at the Max Planck In...

Articles

Rethinking How Medicines Work

A visit to the doctors office often begins with routine questions Age weight blood pressure current medications and medical history are all taken note of These questions may appear simple but they are central to determining the dosage of a medicine someone might be prescribed

Research Insights

FARE-CAFE: a database of functional and regulatory elements of cancer-associated fusion events

Abstract Chromosomal translocation CT is of enormous clinical interest because this disorder is associated with various major solid tumors and leukemia A tumorspecific fusion gene event may occur when a translocation joins two separate genes Currently various CT databases provide information about fusion genes and their genomic elements However no database o

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

Novel Therapy, Sotorasib, Discovered for the Treatment of Advanced or Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

Amgen novel therapy Sotorasib discovered for the treatment of patients with Advanced or Metastatic NonSmall Cell Lung Cancer NSCLC Patients with KRAS GC Mutation Sotorasib an investigational small molecule that selectively and irreversibly targets KRASGC is developed for the treatment of advanced or metastatic NSCLC in patient population

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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Meet scientist Daria Donati

Daria Donati

Daria’s work is ongoing. Her role at Cytiva involves identifying new and innovative technologies that can help in the development of therapeutics. This means building partnerships, improving manufacturing processes and, ultimately, getting life- saving drugs to the people who need them most.

 

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Boosting NICU Safety

Norhan Attia

Norhan Attia, clinical pharmacist with five years' experience at Assiut University Hospital, Egypt, specialising in Neonatal Intensive Care. Expert in medication reviews, IV admixtures, and optimising pharmacotherapy outcomes. Currently a dedicated teaching assistant, focusing on pharmaceutical education and enhancing medication safety in NICU settings.

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Incipient Biopharmaceutical Claims of Milk Derived Exosomes

Rakesh Kumar Tekade

Rakesh K. Tekade is a formulation researcher with of teaching and research experience. He has an explicit experience of over 10 years in teaching various modules for Ph.D, Masters & Bachelors students (@ Universities based in USA, UK, Malaysia, & India). He currently serving as Associate Professor at NIPER-Ahmedabad (An Institute of National Importance Government of India). Prior to this, Dr. Tekade was faculty at International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He took his postdoctoral trainings from UT Southwestern Medical Centre, Dallas, Texas, USA and University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii, USA. He is a recipient of Commonwealth Fellowship at University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. Recently, Dr Tekade has been listed as Top 2% researcher in the field of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, by Stanford University, USA.

 

Nupur Vasdev

Nupur Vasdev is currently pursuing her PhD in the department of pharmaceutics from NIPER-Ahmedabad. She has completed M.S (Pharm.) in pharmaceutics from NIPER-Raebareli. She is currently working on targeted nano particulate drug delivery for obesity and cancer. Her research focus also includes surface modified exosome drug delivery for cancer and obesity.

 

Manisha Choudhary

Manisha Choudhary is currently pursuing her M.S. (Pharm) in Pharmaceutics at NIPER-Ahmedabad, India. She is currently working on aptamer decorated nanomaterials for improving the targeting. Her work majorly focuses on the improvement of the stability, targeting and robustness of aptamer conjugated nanomaterials for cancer treatment. Her work also focusses on the extraction of natural derived exosomes.

 

Suryanarayana Polaka

Suryanarayana Polaka is currently pursuing his PhD at NIPER-Ahmedabad, India. He is working in targeted drug delivery systems for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and wound healing. He also works on exosome mediated drug delivery. He co-authored 10 peer-reviewed publications in international journals, contributed > 7 international reference book chapters.

 

Kiran Kalia

Professor Kiran Kalia is a currently serving as Director and Professor at NIPER-Ahmedabad. Her work basically focused on the Proteomic markers for diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy and metal toxicity studies. Recently she started exploring the exosomes mediated drug delivery for delivering the genes for treating various ailments like cancer, wounds and diabetic nephropathy.

 

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Marine Biomaterials for Drug Delivery Applications

Innocent J Macha

Macha has six years of experience in research and teaching in the area of biomaterials synthesis and characterisations, drug delivery devices, cell culture and bacterial biofilm. He is also Associate Editor of the Journal of The Australian Ceramic Society and has published more than 14 articles and 6 book chapters.

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Role of Nutraceutical in Various Diseases - A Review

Shaikh Habeeba

Shaikh Habeeba working as an assistant professor at matoshri institute of pharmacy dhanore yeola nashik Maharashtra India. She has completed post-graduation in pharmacognosy. Her area of research interest in herbal formulation development. She has published more than 20 research& review paper in various national international journal. One case study accepted as book chapter in international publication & attended 17 conference &  presented 5 paper in international national  conference also guided  more than 5 students for the research project.

 

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Innovent Announces NMPA Acceptance of a New Indication Application of Sintilimab for the Treatment of Advanced Melanoma

Innovent Biologics Inc a worldclass biopharmaceutical company that develops manufactures and commercializes high quality medicines for the treatment of cancer metabolic autoimmune and other major diseases today announced that a New Indication Application for sintilimab in combination with Nolgileuce...

Georgiamune and Menarini Group Enter Exclusive Global License and Collaboration Agreement for GIM-621, a First-in-Class Oral Immuno-Oncology Agent

The Menarini Group Menarini a leading international pharmaceutical and diagnostics company and Stemline Therapeutics Inc Stemline a whollyowned subsidiary of the Menarini Group focused on bringing transformational oncology treatments to cancer patients along with Georgiamune Inc a clinicalstage biot...

Aptar Pharma Acquires Pulmotree, Expanding Growth Opportunities in Next-Generation Pulmonary Drug

Aptar Pharma a global leader in drug delivery dosing protection technologies and services today announced the strategic acquisition of PULMOTREE a Munich Germanybased life science company specializing in pulmonary drug delivery systems for targeted delivery to the lungs The acquisition is expected t...

Kos Biotechnology Partners Announces Strategic Investment in Golden Age Health to Accelerate Global Access to Rare Disease Therapies

Kos Biotechnology Partners Kos a global life sciences investment firm bridging the US and European biopharma ecosystems today announced a strategic investment in Golden Age Health GAH through its inaugural fund Kos BioVentures As part of this partnership Alex Tzoukas Managing Partner and CoFounder

AI Proteins Announces Research Collaboration and License Agreement With Astellas Pharma to Discover and Develop Novel Miniprotein-Based Therapeutics Valued at Over $400 Million

AI Proteins Inc a biotechnology company that utilizes computational de novo protein design to create therapeutic miniproteins today announced it has entered into a Research Collaboration and License Agreement with Astellas Innovation Management LLC an affiliate of Astellas Pharma Inc TSE to discove...

Merck Collaborates with NVIDIA, Microsoft and Dawn Health to Develop Novel Support Model for People Living with Rare Tumors

Merck a leading science and technology company today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA Corporation Santa Clara California USA Microsoft Corporation Redmond Washington USA and Dawn Health AS Copenhagen Denmark to build an innovative model for Patient Support Programs PSPs The fourway collaboratio...

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Sumitomo Pharma’s Enzomenib Receives Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Relapsed or Refractory KMT2A-Rearranged Acute Leukaemia

Sumitomo Pharma America has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to enzomenib DSP for treating patients with relapsed or refractory acute leukaemia carrying a KMTA gene rearrangement

Pfizer’s TALZENNA Plus XTANDI Approved for Earlier Treatment of Metastatic Prostate Cancer

Pfizer has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration FDA to expand the use of TALZENNA talazoparib in combination with XTANDI enzalutamide for men with metastatic prostate cancer that is sensitive to hormone treatment and has specific homologous recombination repair HRR gene mutatio...

Okomera Signs Agreement with Servier for Cancer Research Technology

Okomera has signed a commercial agreement with Servier to support the development of new cancer treatments using its tumour miniaturisation technology More than of oncology drug candidates fail to reach the market making it important to identify promising treatments at an early stage Okomeras platf...

AstraZeneca and Oracle Launch Global AI Collaboration to Optimise Clinical Trials

AstraZeneca and Oracle Health and Life Sciences have launched a global collaboration to use artificial intelligence AI realworld data and cloud technology to improve clinical trial efficiency and patient outcomes The collaboration will combine AstraZenecas expertise in drug development clinical rese...

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