FEATURE ARTICLES
Regulatory changes, space/footprint constraints and expanding automation garnered more votes than the other challenges. Let’s explore these challenges, and see how the industry is tackling them as we move into 2026.
- The 5-Layer Fix For AI Failure In Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
- Why Use Total Organic Carbon Analysis For Cleaning Validation?
- December 2025 — CDMO Opportunities And Threats Report
- 5 FDA Approval Categories In 2025
- A 2025 Pharma Look Back and Look Forward: Editor Style
- 2026 CDMO Forecast: The 7 Shifts Sponsors Need To Prepare For
- A Deeper Look At Pharma's Structural Supply Chain Vulnerability
PHARMA ONLINE WHITE PAPERS
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![GettyImages-1287845246-laboratory-bottles-mask-scientist-gloves-coat]( "Advances In Regulations For Viable Environmental Monitoring")
Advances In Regulations For Viable Environmental MonitoringViable air monitoring is critical for environmental monitoring programs in pharmaceutical manufacturing. Explore current regulatory standards as well as the impact of the EU GMP Annex 1 revisions.
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Human Skin Explant Model For The Investigation Of Topical Therapeutics8/4/2025
Learn more about an ex vivo cultured human skin explant model in which pathological tissue integrity, barrier function, and metabolic stability have been characterized over time.
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Make Your Production Sites Adaptable And More Efficient12/12/2025
Pharma faces mounting complexity and tighter margins, demanding agile, future-ready production. Discover how smart manufacturing enables faster adaptation and continuous therapy availability.
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Leveraging Life Sciences Data For Intelligent Decision-Making2/18/2025
Industry 4.0 drives life sciences to prioritize data-driven decision-making by integrating advanced technologies in QMS. Discover how modern data management can improve compliance.
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Streamline Your mAb Manufacturing With Strategic Development And CDMO Compatibility6/4/2025
Though the journey to mAb development begins at lab scale, for clinical trials and commercial distribution, a production process must be streamlined and scalable to 2,000 L production and above.
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Future-Proofing Life Sciences Manufacturing: 2025 CDMO Trends3/12/2025
Review contract manufacturing's evolution, driven by technological advancements and regulatory changes, and how CMOs and CDMOs are navigating opportunities and challenges.
PHARMA ONLINE APP NOTES & CASE STUDIES
- Proximal Tubule Kidney-Chip For Modeling Human Physiology
- Consistent Improvement In CHO-K1 GS Performance With Efficient-Pro Feed 3 And Efficient-Pro Feed Enhancer
- Global Cross Lab Method Transfer Of A USP Impurities Method
- Rapid Thermal Stability Screening Of High Concentration Biologic Drugs
- Achieving Faster Timelines And Cost Savings Through Digital Validation
NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE
- 02.05.26 -- STREAM Edition: Contamination Control Strategies For Drug Manufacturers
- 02.03.26 -- Novo's Path To The First GLP-1 Weight Loss Pill
- 02.03.26 -- Composable MES For Pharma
- 01.30.26 -- The 5-Layer Fix For AI Failure In Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
- 01.29.26 -- 5 FDA Approval Categories In 2025
INDUSTRY NEWS
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![FDA Logo on phone screen-GettyImages-2208861549]( "Høeg In, Pazdur Out At The FDA")
Høeg In, Pazdur Out At The FDAWhat an eventful week it has been at the FDA, with Richard Pazdur, M.D., resigning after weeks in his position as director of Center for Drug Research and Evaluation (CDER), and his vacancy being quickly filled by acting director Tracy Beth Høeg, M.D.
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![business peope negotiating-GettyImages-637902194]( "9 Drugs Granted Fast Track By FDA's Voucher Program")
9 Drugs Granted Fast Track By FDA's Voucher ProgramWith targets like pancreatic cancer, deafness, blindness, infertility and vaping addiction, these drugs were chosen due to an unmet need, addressing a public health crisis, boosting domestic manufacturing or increasing affordability.
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![Pharmaceutical sorting machine, pills-GettyImages-1499814881]( "Leaders In The Excipient Market: Region And Type")
Leaders In The Excipient Market: Region And TypeThough North America led the market with a 38.32% market share of $3.15 billion in 2024, Asia Pacific is expected to have the fastest growth in the upcoming years.
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![GettyImages-2189405678-GLP-1-obesity]( "Pfizer Strengthens Obesity Foothold With Metsera Acquisition")
Pfizer Strengthens Obesity Foothold With Metsera AcquisitionAfter discouraging efforts to bring two oral obesity drugs to market—danuglipron and lotiglipron—this acquisition launches Pfizer back into the obesity therapeutic game.
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![weight loss, diabetes, insulin pen-GettyImages-2196049931]( "FDA Cracks Down On GLP-1 Imports")
FDA Cracks Down On GLP-1 ImportsGLP-1 bulk drug substances must be detained without physical examination (DWPE) unless they are on a list (Green List) of approved foreign GLP-1 manufacturers.
PHARMACEUTICAL ONLINE CONTENT COLLECTIONS
Explore how sterility assurance, including sterilization validation and environmental monitoring, is essential for controlling microbial contamination in mammalian cell production to ensure patient safety. Check out the latest e-book from Pharmaceutical Online.
More Content CollectionsSUPPLIER NEWS
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Eli Lilly To Build New $3.5B Injectable Drug Manufacturing Site Supporting GLP-1 Therapies In Pennsylvania2/2/2026
Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced plans to invest more than $3.5 billion in a new manufacturing facility in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.
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Halo Pharma To Become A Stand-Alone Drug Product Contract Development And Manufacturing Organization (CDMO)1/27/2026
Halo Pharma, a leading CDMO specializing in drug product pharmaceutical development and manufacturing services, will become a stand-alone business as a result of the sale of the Noramco API and associated businesses to Siegfried.
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Eurofins CDMO Alphora Announces Development & Implementation Of AI-Powered Salt And Co-Crystal Screening Software1/26/2026
Developed by Eurofins CDMO Alphora, in collaboration with a local university, this cutting-edge machine learning platform provides highly accurate predictions of salt and co-crystal formation for APIs and intermediates.
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Coating Place Announces Leadership Appointments To Support Next Phase Of Growth1/23/2026
As Coating Place celebrates its 50th anniversary, the company continues to build on its long-standing reputation as the industry leader in Wurster-based fluid bed technology for controlled release and taste masking applications.
