Pharma Articles
Renowned pharmaceutical firm executives and other experts from around the world write articles on current topics in the industry. The section of articles on the pharmaceutical sector focuses on contemporary and expanding challenges in fields such as pharmaceutical R&D, drug discovery, clinical trials, pharmaceutical production, biopharmaceuticals, and information technology.
How AI Is Changing Revenue Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Pharmaceutical revenue has many moving parts A sale might involve a wholesaler a specialty pharmacy a payer and several different pricing or rebate agreements By the time the numbers reach the finance team plenty of opportunities exist for things to change or be recorded differently along the way
Risk Management in the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry: Supply, Manufacturing and Regulatory Resilience
US pharma risk management is the practice of identifying scoring and reducing threats to drug quality supply and compliance before they reach patients The strongest programs focus on three areas supply chain risk sourcing logistics shortages manufacturing risk quality contamination capacity and regu...
Digital Transformation in Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management
For decades the American pharmaceutical supply chain was judged on two measures cost and compliance Product moved from manufacturer to wholesaler to dispenser through a chain of largely disconnected systems and visibility often ended at the loading dock That model has reached its limits The pandemic...
Next Generation Precision Oncology with Antibody Drug Conjugates
The idea behind antibodydrug conjugates is more than a century old Paul Ehrlich imagined a magic bullet that would find diseased cells and spare healthy ones For most of oncologys history that vision collided with reality chemotherapy was potent but indiscriminate and targeted antibodies
Digital Biomarkers and Wearables: Transforming Clinical Trial Data Collection
Picture the moment a patient walks into a trial site They have driven an hour waited in a lobby and are now asked to walk down a corridor for six minutes or rate their fatigue over the past two weeks from memory The data recorded that afternoon will help determine whether a therapy worth billions re...
Pharmaceutical Quality Systems in the U.S.: GMP, Quality Control and Manufacturing Compliance
Most people never think about the quality system behind their medicine They open a bottle take a tablet and trust it That trust is built on a huge amount of unglamorous work documentation testing audits and people who say stop the line when something looks off
Next Generation Fill-Finish Technologies for Sterile Drug Products
For decades fillfinish was treated as the final almost administrative step of pharmaceutical manufacturing The science happened upstream filling vials and syringes was a matter of throughput That assumption no longer holds Most biologics cannot be terminally sterilized so their safety depends entire...
U.S. Cell and Gene Therapy Market: How Pharma Is Scaling Up
Less than a decade after the first CART therapy reached American patients in cell and gene therapy has earned its scientific credibility Durable remissions in blood cancers once considered untreatable onetime treatments for inherited disorders and meaningful responses in rare diseases have establis...
Advancing Personalized Medicine Through Genomic Innovation
For most of the twentieth century pharmaceutical development followed a population logic Medicines were designed for the average patient tested in broad populations and prescribed through a process that often amounted to informed trial and error Some patients responded well others experienced little...
Strategic Alliances and Business Partnerships Across the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
US pharma partnerships are formal agreements in which two or more companies share the cost risk technology or market access involved in developing and selling a drug The most common forms are licensing deals codevelopment agreements cocommercialization arrangements and joint ventures Companies enter...
