Case Studies
Pharma case studies focus on specific issues and provide insights on how a particular technology or development is useful to the pharma companies. This section presents case studies on industry developments, technologies, products and services.
Isolation Technology: Case Study
A customer active in the hormone production recently searched an appropriate solution for grinding material and clean packaging after the filtering and drying process The following requirements had to be met To provide a safe barrier between the operator and the active drug substance to provide both operator and product protect
Analytics Stories: A Case Study from Quintiles
As I have shared within other posts within this series businesses are using analytics to improve their internal and external facing business processes and to strengthen their right to win within the markets that they operate For pharmaceutical businesses strengthening the right to win begins and ends with the drug product development lifecycle I re...
<sup>14</sup>C microtracer+Accelerator Mass Spectrometry - Xceleron Case Studies
Introduction Xceleron is a world leader in the use of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry AMS analytical technology in pharmaceutical food technology crop protection and biobased product applications Our primary business is in pharmaceutical research and development Since we have been helping to design preclinical and clinical investigations around th...
Ambient Stable Biologics - Stable Aqueous Erythropoietin
Challenge Erythropoietin EPO is known to aggregate under heat stress which prevents storage of liquid compositions at ambient temperature The key challenge of this study was to demonstrate that the application of the ArestatT tools can reduce significantly aggregation of EPO at an elevated temperature compared with a marketed liquid formulation
Diagnostics - Stable Aqueous Horseradish Peroxidase
Challenge The main use of Horseradish peroxidise HRP is in diagnostic applications to produce a detectable signal indicating presence of a molecular target Typically HRP is used in conjugates with antibodies the antibody to recognise the molecular target an
Glucose Oxidase Stabilised in OxyzymeT - a commercial wound dressing
Partner nsense Ltd is a specialty wound care company that has developed a range of novel active hydrogelbased dressings OxyzymeT and IodozymeT which are capable of active delivery of oxygen iodine and nitric oxide to a wound site
Heat Stable Hepatitis B vaccine
Partner Since Arecor has collaborated with PATH an international global health nonprofit organisation on the development of heat stable vaccines using the ArestatT technology Stabilisation of hepatitis B vaccine one of the many vaccines successfully st
Heat Stable Insulin Analogues (Zinc-complexed and Zinc-free)
Challenge Insulin is used to treat various forms of diabetes mellitus Patients with type I diabetes mellitus depend on external insulin most commonly injected subcutaneously for their survival because of the deficiency of the hormone Insulin is typically deli
High Concentration Antibody - Rituximab
Challenge Antibodies tend to aggregate at the high concentrations typically required for their therapeutic application The key challenge of this study was to reduce the rate of aggregation in isotonic aqueous formulation of rituximab at mgml whilst maintai
Labile Biologics - Stable Aqueous Formulation of Recombinant Factor VIII
Challenge All marketed Factor VIII products are lyophilised preparations produced by either recombinant technology or purified from pooled plasma The preparations are typically stabilised by addition of sugars Administration of the lyophilised product is a very complex procedure involving a number
