API

Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) are combined with excipients (inactive substances) to make drugs.  Here you will find content about the development, manufacturing, analysis and regulation of pharmaceutical APIs.

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Excipient-based strategies to harness complex therapeutics

Though excipients are a necessary drug component that can often be taken for granted, the ever-changing pharma landscape is always pushing us to shift our perspectives.
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Bridging the gap between R&D and GMP

Companies prioritizing optimized synthetic routes, stable API forms, and verified analytical tools set the stage for phase I clinical manufacturing success
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Toward a collaborative pharma ecosystem

A new biomanufacturing era demands that suppliers and manufacturers partner to efficiently bring new therapies to market
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Reevaluating pharma packaging priorities

Supply chain challenges and industry trends are spurring new business strategies
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Global Dose: Focus on India

The world's leader of generic drug production looks towards new horizons in pharma
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Top pharma industry predictions for 2021

In many ways, the beginning of 2021 isn’t just one of the most welcome New Years of the modern era — it could also be a turning point between the pre-COVID and post-COVID worlds...
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The case for nanoparticles

Leveraging new powder technologies to manufacture personalized medicines
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Manufactured patriotism

The government wants to reshore generics, but the drug industry isn’t celebrating
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Harnessing lab power on the pharma plant floor

Technologies accelerating the verification process for raw materials
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Bring it home

Inside the movement to put generic drug production back on America's shores
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The growing benefits to reshoring pharma operations

The need to explore the diversification of U.S. pharmaceutical supply chains and the feasibility of relocation has never been higher.