The Gerresheimer subsidiary in Peachtree City, USA, was named an approved “Contract Manufacturer for VERO Biotech’s GENOSYL Delivery System (DS), drug substance intermediate” for the disposable cassette of the company’s third generation of the first tankless inhaled nitric oxide delivery sys…

With the increasing drug development for novel therapeutics, a growing number of pharmaceutical and biotech companies are seeking clinical manufacturing partners to help meet the demand for complex fill and finish solutions. And, while the stages of early drug development are challenging, we are com…

Wirthwein Medical has been a reliable and established partner in the field of customized contract manufacturing in the diagnostics, pharmaceutical and medical technology industries for several decades. Now the Mühltal-based company is establishing another mainstay and launching an own product "WIM…

To prevent testing on animals and create even more precise ways of testing therapeutics, the pharmaceutical industry is increasingly turning to human immune cells. However, the availability of cells like these has been limited to date. Now, Fraunhofer researchers have succeeded in scaling the produc…

Blood plasma forms the basis of many life-saving therapies and is also an important building block for future active ingredients in medical research. As the general planner for Octapharma, ZETA implemented an industry leading EPCM project resulting in the doubling of plasma throughput at the Vienna…

Insbesondere bei chronischen Lungenerkrankungen wie Asthma nutzen viele Menschen Inhalatoren, um ihre Atemwege freizuhalten. Oftmals bleibt dabei aber ein Teil der zu inhalierenden Partikel im Gerät selbst hängen. Durch eine optimierte ultradünne Beschichtung von Kunststoffoberflächen in Inhalat…

Drug counterfeiters frequently fill original pharmaceutical containers with ineffective or harmful substitutes. In many cases, tampering with the containers cannot be detected. In the worst case, a falsified medicine may have fatal consequences for the patient to whom it has been administered. A tam…

Die Unternehmen Dow (New Yorker Börse: DOW), Sartorius und Südpack Medica sind eine gemeinsame Partnerschaft entlang der Wertschöpfungskette zur Herstellung von Bioreaktor- und 3D-Beuteln eingegangen und unterstützen damit die globalen Bemühungen zur Impfung gegen Coronaviren. Die Bioreaktor- u…

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous countries around the world have been working hard to develop new vaccines against the virus. A U.S. pharmaceutical company based in Italy will also be involved in the mass production of the vaccine and is preparing for it. There must be no dosing er…

More than 180 million people have become infected with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which has already mutated multiple times. Effective vaccines have been developed in record time, but billions of vaccine doses are needed to defeat the pandemic. In order to expand production, sensor components – am…