Current Issue - Issue 62

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Issue 62 | 2026

  • Foreword
  • Strategy
  • Research & Development
  • Manufacturing
  • Information Technology
  • Expert Corner
  • Advertorials
  • BioPharma

Issue 62

CURRENT ISSUE

Foreword

From Insight to Impact

Advancing clinical trials through RWE in Asia-Pacific

AsiaPacific is shaping a new era in clinical development As healthcare systems across the region confront rising

Strategy

Why Pharma Products still go to Waste — and How Better Logistics can Help

Every year pharmaceutical products worth billions of dollars are spent worldwide even as demand for lifesaving

Research & Development

Redefining Pharmaceutical Research and Training with Digital Twins and AI

Pharmaceutical education and training have traditionally focussed on inperson access to specialist equipment

From Monoliths to Ecosystems

The new R&D paradigm

Historically pharmaceutical innovation was concentrated among a small number of large companies

Manufacturing

Navigating the Future

The regulatory revolution in gene therapy

The cell and gene therapies CGTs landscape is evolving rapidly with transformative potential to potentially cure

Information Technology

Fine-tuning AI Models for Molecular Co-folding

Advancing drug discovery through data collaboration

Cofolding models predict how two or more interacting partners such as a protein and a ligand two proteins or a protein

Assessing the Merits of Agentic AI

What is it — and what is it for?

As the global life sciences industry embraces the latest advances in science and adapts to evolving regulatory demands

Expert Corner

Next-generation Water Systems in Pharma

Achieving operational excellence with process analytical technology

Since its introduction by the FDA in PAT has shifted quality assurance from endproduct testing to realtime

Breaking Barriers in bioanalytical automation

Challenges, milestones, and future pathways

Over the past two decades the most transformative milestones in bioanalytical automation have redefined how quality

FROM REAL WORLD TO REAL IMPACT

Transforming Trials in the Era of RWE in Asia-Pacific

APAC houses almost per cent of the worlds population However less than per cent of global trials are conducted

Advertorials

TRADITIONAL PHARMA FACILITIES

Time to rethink

In several recent cases companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new plants only to face delayed integration

BioPharma

Microbiological QC Bottlenecks in Biopharma

How point-of-need biotechnologies are redefining the path forward

Microbial contamination remains a persistent challenge in biopharmaceutical manufacturing with risks arising

Rethinking Biotech Valuation

Why traditional models fail and how evidence-driven frameworks are reshaping R&D value

Biotech valuation is often framed as a precise discounted cash flow number Drug development behaves differently