Newsletter | February 29, 2024

02.29.24 -- What Does The Catalent Acquisition By Novo Holdings Mean For The Biopharma Industry?

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What Does The Catalent Acquisition By Novo Holdings Mean For The Biopharma Industry?

Novo Holdings, the parent company to Novo Nordisk, announced a deal last week to acquire Catalent, the global CDMO, for $16.5 billion. In the same breath, Novo Holdings announced they will sell three sites directly to Novo Nordisk, implying that the rest of the assets of the company will continue to operate as a stand-alone CDMO. This article unpacks the acquisition, discussing questions such as, “What does it mean for customers?” and “Does this deal reshape the CDMO market?”

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

Designing Agile Manufacturing With An Integrated Drug Product Ecosystem

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What Can You Do To Improve Your ADC’s Chance Of Clinical Success?

Improving your ADC’s chance of clinical success requires an understanding of what potential obstacles lie ahead and what capabilities and expertise are necessary to overcome them.

Industrial-Scale Organoid Production: Challenges, Advantages, And Solutions

Organoids, 3D models replicating human organs, are a growing topic of interest for researchers as they offer invaluable advantages, but they come with several challenges.

Developing Injectable Drug Placebo Formulations For Clinical Trials

Developing a placebo for an injectable drug requires consideration of the formulation’s impact in trials, chemistry and physical details, ethical concerns, and regulatory compliance.

Innovating Drug Dosage Forms And Supporting Patient-Centric Goals

Learn how delivering HPAPI drugs in OSD form can help boost patient compliance and consider the formulation challenges inherent to HPAPI development and manufacturing.

Formula For Pharmaceutical Logistics And Supply Chain Success In 2024

Join global logistics leaders for an in-depth analysis of the evolving pharmaceutical supply chain, exploring critical issues, emerging trends, and strategies for navigating the complexities of 2024.

Choosing The Right Primary Container And Troubleshooting Issues

Selecting the right primary container for an injectable drug product is critical. Discover how to identify relevant testing to de-risk your product development — and quickly uncover causes of failures.

Proactive Strategies To Evaluate And Mitigate Clinical Supply Risk

Learn about strategies that can help build an understanding of risk assessment, in addition to how a study’s protocol requirements, patient compliance concerns, and more must be identified and addressed.

Engineering Drug Release In EVA-Based Implants

Find out about a platform for creating injectable and implantable long-acting drug delivery products, including its technical basics and how it can be used to deliver small molecules, peptides, and biologics.

Selecting Drug Delivery Systems For Higher Doses, Viscosities, And Lower Risk

Discover how companies can de-risk their device selection as they bring this new generation of high-volume, high-viscosity biologics to market.

Streamline Early-Stage Development To Reach The Clinic Faster

Early-stage development is an iterative process, continuously generating new data and insights to optimize the product based on emerging knowledge.

Method Migration Of USP Ibuprofen Assay And Organic Impurities Method

An isocratic USP monograph for ibuprofen and related organic impurities was used to assess a method migration between HPLC systems. Explore results that demonstrate the ability to migrate methods.

Facilitating Flexibility In A Dynamic Laboratory Work Environment

Supplying a fiberboard mockup allows a customer to make additional considerations before finalizing the design needed to enclose several processes requiring product manipulation in two or more “phases.”

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