News & Analysis on Clinical Trial Services & Contract Research And Development
Drug discovery informatics and services provider Tripos International has continued to flourish under the ownership of Vector Capital and is collaborating with AstraZeneca (AZ) to improve drug discovery workflows.
The International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council (IPEC) of Europe has outlined the actions it is taking as it continues to develop awareness of the need for safe excipients.
Industrial polymer firm Arkema hopes that Kynar Rx, a new grade of its widely used Kynar resin technology, will help it corner the market for single-use sterile manufacturing applications in the bioprocessing sector.
GE Healthcare’s range of AxiChrom columns will simplify manufacturing operations, improve reproducibility and allow for faster change over according to company senior product manager, Per Karlberg.
Dow Chemical is hoping to push production of its Carbowax Sentry brand of polyethylene glycol ingredients up by a third over 2006/2007 levels by the end of the year, and put the production problems of recent months behind it.
San Diego-based biotechnology contract research organisation (CRO) Bio-Quant has expanded its animal diagnostic services offering to cover all nine species used in medical research.
PPD has been selected as the full-service preferred provider for translational clinical development services by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).
Bilcare, Patheon, Pierre Fabre and Catalent were among the winners at the 2008 European Outsourcing awards, held during this year’s CPhI conference in Frankfurt, Germany.
Outsourcing-Pharma.com presents its periodic round-up of executive appointments in the contract services sector.