Articles in this Issue
Mike Auerbach
The lesson here isn’t that packaging is bad. It’s that packaging is where all the science, formulation work, and quality control finally meets a real person standing in a real kitchen. If the patient can’t get the product out in one piece, all of that great work ends up in crumbs on the counter.
Davinder Ramsingh, MD
Neurological disease accounts for a large share of the global disease burden. CNS drug development, however, remains unusually difficult. One major reason is anatomical, not pharmacological: even a compound with strong target biology has little therapeutic value if it cannot reach the relevant brain tissue at sufficient concentration.
James Akers, Ph.D., James P. Agalloco, Phil DeSantis, Russell E. Madsen
Considering the advances in aseptic processing and their effectiveness in eliminating the primary sources of contamination (i.e., human activity), it is not our intent to entirely disparage the value of monitoring. Environmental monitoring has some value in trend analysis within an overall contamination control strategy. However, it is not a control mechanism.
Chad Hafer
As the sterile fill finish market continues to grow, the role of specialized drug delivery CDMO partnerships must shift from baseline execution to long-term future-proofing. Experienced partners add the highest value by anticipating how shifting global regulatory expectations and future market demands will impact a molecule years after its initial validation.
Karen McCullough
As technology in endotoxins and pyrogens testing changes, and as the basic research advances our understanding of pyrogenicity, fifty-year-old assumptions and decisions should be revisited, if not challenged. Given that it is neither typical nor representative of potential contaminants, is the current calibrant still an appropriate analyte for endotoxins and pyrogens testing?
Anne Weeks
The goal is not to eliminate plates. It is to reduce the number of reasons to open or intervene in the isolator. By supplementing traditional environmental monitoring with real-time BFPC, manufacturers can preserve the value of growth-based methods while reducing avoidable interventions—and, consequently, the number of investigations triggered by the monitoring process itself.
Neelam Sharma, MS, Lakshmi Lavanya Kundurthy, BE, Hemant N. Joshi, Ph.D., MBA
The purpose of this column is to highlight and summarize recent key patents in the pharmaceutical arena issued by the US Patent Office in June-July, 2026.