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• Tablet Press Makers Take Steps to Ease Changeover, Tighten Performance
  of biotechnology and pharmaceutical science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. More instrumentation and advanced controls are gathering increasing amounts of operational data for improved performance, notes Steve Hoag, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Maryland...
• California R&D program wants state's IC makers at head of class
  out of the success of another UC-related program. It is part of President Richard Atkinson's Industry-University Cooperative Research Program, which was established in 1996 to further joint research in areas critical to the California economy. The success of a biotechnology matching-grants program...
• Weigh the Risks in Outsourcing Decisions
  organization (CMO) depends on a sponsor's size, workload and in-house capabilities. It's sometimes useful to distinguish between large and small firms, biotechnology and small-molecule developers, and prescription versus over-the-counter drug makers. "Larger pharmaceutical companies already have pilot plants...
• All Aboard the Cold Chain
  This quick, one-time registration gives you access to members-only site benefits. Globalization, economics, and the rise of biotechnology have vastly complicated pharmaceutical distribution and logistics. Of the $400 billion worth of pharmaceutical products sold worldwide in 2003, approximately 10%...
• Redefining the Workforce
  In step with FDA's 21st Century GMPs, more drug manufacturers are working to better understand and control their processes. Biotechnology, and concepts such as process analytical technology (PAT), continuous processing and more advanced control promise to change the way that drugs are made...
• Bioseparations, the Evolution Continues
  trickle up into the conservative mainstream from nontraditional biotech areas such as transgenics and gene therapy, as well as from the plasma products industry, which predates fermentation-based biotechnology. But for now, downstream innovations primarily build on decades-old unit operations...
• Redefining the Workforce
  . Courses at PDA's Training and Research Institute were once populated by plant-floor operators, but they're now also attracting supervisors, managers and QA/QC professionals, Sherman says. At industry's request, PDA has expanded its curricula, adding training in biotechnology tools and processes...
• Biogen's LSM Plant; On Line, On Time, On Budget
  in gray space. LSM's utilities are typical for a large biotechnology facility. In addition to general utilities, the plant uses process gases, purified water, water-for-injection, clean steam, and HEPA filtration to serve upstream and downstream operations. The site's principal processing suites...
• Events Calendar
  Operational Excellence & Lean Six Sigma Project definition and team development Variations in types of transfers This conference is specially designed along two tracks for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, respectively. The event is geared to those with responsibilities...
• Medical Device Link .
  demand for plastic articles that must be produced under cleanroom conditions. Inquiries are being received from medical, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics manufacturers; the bio-technology industry; and electrical and electronic equipment makers. The realistic size of the investment required depends...

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