Articles on key issues related to the pharma industry from the heads of leading pharmaceutical companies and pharma industry experts across the globe. The pharma industry articles' section focuses on current and emerging issues in areas such as Strategic developments in the pharma industry, pharmaceutical R&D, drug discovery, clinical trials, pharmaceutical manufacturing, biopharmaceuticals, and information technology.
In recent years Organonchips OOC attracted large interest as a new enabling technology to better understand human pathophysiological mechanisms and develop new drug treatments
Metals and alloys are the first generation bioinert biomaterials These materials possess excellent mechanical strength low elastic modulus and good corrosion resistance Titanium Ti and its alloys are one of the commonly used metallic biomaterials for orthopedic applications eg bone plates screws den...
Patient registries are important tools in the healthcare system for systematically collecting data over time from a population living with a certain disease condition or exposure Welldesigned and wellexecuted patient registries hold great potential in providing important disease insights into for e...
The successful introduction of commercial lipidic formulations of cyclosporine as Sandimmune in followed by its reformulation as Neoral has raised interest of the lipidbased drug delivery technology over the past two decades With a greater understanding of the various functions lipids may have in b...
Globally cancer is the second most prevalent healthcare issue following cardiovascular Conventional methods such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy have several detrimental side effects without guaranteed permanent recovery In the last few decades efforts have been made by introducing nanotechnology t...
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus SARSCoV affected all areas of life and the economy by causing COVID and created alarming caution in the form of variants of concerns VoC The latest VoC that are of public health relevance are Alpha B Beta B Gamma P Delta B and Omicron B Due to the em...
DeFelice introduced the term nutraceutical in combining the words nutrition and pharmacy and originally defined it as a food or part of a food that provides medical or health benefits including the prevention and treatment of disease A nutraceutical may be a nutrientdense food like spirulina garlic...
Gone are those if youre still thinking of keeping your customers engaged with your brand by merely sending emails messages phone calls or mobile apps They are expecting way beyond that today It begs the question Is the rapid evolution of selfservice tools creating the need to expect more and more
Many antibodybased therapeutics have been developed to treat the CNS disorders Howeverhow to achieve a sufficient exposure of protein therapeutics in the CNS is the major challenge in drug development The bloodbrain barrier BBB and the bloodcerebrospinalfluid barrier BCSFB highly regulate and limit...
Innovation and operational excellence are two important pillars of Bachems success Thus to keep technological leadership and highquality services it was essential to start our digital transformation and to enter the Industry area This will benefit our customers as we will be able to increase our ca...