The Biopharma Pod

In our first podcast interview of 2023, BioPharma Reporter spoke with Dr Sarah Bateup, therapy lead at Clerkenwell Health, about the potential of psychedelic medicine and her work within the psychedelic therapy training space.

How the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) exercises flexibility has been an important and emerging issue for the past several years.

Many turn to Boston and North Carolina’s Research Triangle to set up life science companies, but Chicago is now also fast becoming a draw in this respect. The city is emerging as a life science and biopharma hub and seems poised for even further growth, in CGT in particular.

Today we are launching a new series called The BioPharma Pod. Kicking off these broadcasts is the hot topic of biosimilars.

A shortage in expertise is causing bottlenecks in the biomanufacturing space with around half of drugmakers struggling to fill processing positions, an industry report finds.

Piramal’s COO Vijay Shah described antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) as “a concept whose time has come” at the CPhI annual report press conference and recent investors in the technology echo his words.

The biopharmaceutical manufacturing sector needs better cross flow filtration technologies according to GE Healthcare, which says that advances in bioreactor systems have not been matched downstream.

Immunocore is looking for more licensees for its cancer targeting technology following recent discovery and development deals with GSK and Genentech.

ASI has teamed up with Chromatan in order to deliver single-use and column-free capture purification services which could save clients 65% in chromatography costs in clinical manufacturing.

New innovations in single-use bioprocessing systems are being picked up quicker in Europe than in the US, according to ATMI.

Developments in single-use technology signals the end for clean-in-place biomanufacturing methods, according to ThermoFisher’s Bill Whitford.

The European CMO sector is set to double in the next six years and will hit revenues of up to $20.75bn, according to Frost & Sullivan’s Aiswariya Chidambaram.

Acuros is seeking development partnerships with Big Pharma over its recently launched water-powered drug delivery pump.

Unilife is expanding its large dose delivery platform in a bid to meet a “growing industry need” for at-home drug administration in bigger scale.

The biomanufacturing industry needs to adopt an integrated approach to upstream and downstream processing to boost efficiency and productivity according to EMD Millipore.

How successful was the BioPh conference in Madrid? in-PharmaTechnologist asked key players attending the inaugural event.

SAFC Pharma has added extra viral and biologics capacity at its California plant in a $12m project that allows it to take projects from the lab to commercial scale.

in-Pharmatechnologist's Nick Taylor looks back on BIO 2009, an event at which uncertainty about the development of the biotechnology industry’s future shape dominated proceedings.