eHandbook: Pharma Innovations

Innovators are redefining bioreactor technology, cell and gene therapy manufacturing, pharmaceutical packaging, and small molecule APIs. Pharma Manufacturing’s 2025 Innovation Awards recognize those products pushing the boundaries of science.

Robotics adoption in pharmaceutical manufacturing is an exciting area of innovation and is growing. The use of collaborative robots, which work alongside humans and address automation needs in space- or labor-constrained environments, is rapidly accelerating.

At the same time, continuous manufacturing — a fully integrated process that runs uninterrupted from beginning to end — is an alternative to traditional batch manufacturing that is gaining momentum in the industry due to increases in efficiency and productivity.

As the fastest-growing segment of the pharma market, sterile injectables are more important than ever. Eli Lilly, Merck, and Purdue University are advancing AI-driven automation, robotics, and aseptic processing methods to improve the manufacture of injectable drugs.

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