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Extending Your Patent on a New Application for an Old Drug

Stijn Lagaert at LC Patents explains how The European Union member states provide supplementary protection certificates, which may extend the patent life of certain human and veterinary pharmaceuticals for up to five years.

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Due Diligence for Leachables and Extractables in a Modern GMP Environment
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Due Diligence for Leachables and Extractables in a Modern GMP Environment

Regulatory guidance for extractables and leachables exists, but only provides general recommendations for ensuring patient safety. Diane Paskiet, Laura Stubbs and Heike Kofler at West Pharmaceutical Services provide an overview of extractable and leachable science.

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The Healthy Printer
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The Healthy Printer

Jörk Schüßler at Citizen Systems Europe explains why the increasingly powerful levels of functionality and added resilience offered by the latest label, barcode, portable and point-of-sale printers can offer long, trouble-free life to serve busy pharmacies.

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cell culture

Reduce Costs and Gain Expertise by Outsourcing your Cell Culture and Cryostorage

Patrick Jackson at Vindon Scientific and Dr Carol Barker at XCellR8 provide an insight into how in pharmaceutical research and development, cell culture has an increasing number of cutting-edge roles, including a contribution to reduced attrition rates.

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Clinical Research v4i3

Paediatric Clinical Trials in Europe and the US: Challenges and Solutions

Colin Hayward at Premier Research highlights differences and similarities in the paediatric regulatory compliance strategies and priorities of companies in both EU countries and the US.

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austria

Austrian Production Technologies – Better, faster, cheaper

Sonja Polan at Life Science Austria discusses how service providers such as good clinical practice specialists help pharma or biotech companies and clinical trial units in Austria.

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Simplifying the Lives of Patients
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Simplifying the Lives of Patients

Dr Jérôme Freissmuth at Robert Bosch GmbH discusses how present developments of new devices are increasingly focused on patients’ needs. They give top priority to simplified handling, reduced pain, continuous documentation and facilitated adherence to medication intervals.

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biopharmaceutical

Answering Pharma’s Need for Outsourcing to Process ‘Intensification’ Technology for the Future of Biopharmaceutical Production

Fritjof Linz at DSM Biologics discusses how application of technologies brings down its manufacturing costs through process intensification to offer shorter and more efficient scale-up of (bio)pharmaceuticals, speeding up development, better managing manufacturing volumes and driving down total costs.

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laboratory

Reverse Osmosis for Laboratory Use

Mark Bosley at Purite describes how a well-specified, well-managed RO water purification system can deliver to the laboratory an efficient, economical and reliable supply to an exceptionally high level of purity.

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drug discovery

Novel Factories for Novel Vaccines

Sancha Salgueiro, Charlotte Dyring and Wian de Jongh at ExpreS2ion Biotechnologies look into an area where there still remain significant unmet medical needs.

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