Articles by Katie Anderson

  1. Fostering A Quality Software Culture 11/24/2025

    Transforming the quality culture should include the adoption of software quality engineering (SQE), but what is it, and how can it impact the quality of your products and processes?

  2. Is Charisma An API? 11/19/2025

    After nearly 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry, Samir Shah, director of regulatory CMC for medical products and combination products at AstraZeneca, knows how beneficial charisma can be for the pharmaceutical professional. That’s why he presented the topic at the 2025 RAPS Convergence.

  3. 3 Ways To Deliver A Pharma 4.0 Facility 11/17/2025

    O’Callaghan supplied three ways in which Sanofi brought its sites to the modern era, which were supported throughout the event’s presentations.

  4. Innovation, Growth (and Happiness) Projected for Pharma 11/10/2025

    Not only is investment increasing in pharma, but innovation is propelling growth in multiple drug segments, and the people supporting this growth and innovation remain happy.

  5. Shaping The Future Of GLP-1 Quality 11/4/2025

    Three experts—Doug Bakan (CTO of Kailera), Hyung Heon Kim (CEO of MetaVia) and Deepa Nagpal (Founder of SygnifyQ)—joined us on Oct. 15, 2025, to explore this topic, find out the most common quality failures, learn what innovation is occurring and find out what business decisions can help support both quality and quantity.

  6. ISPE Awards 8 Innovative Pharma Facilities 10/31/2025

    The Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) celebrates 20 years of innovation and excellence in 2025, and I had the pleasure of joining the celebration at the 2025 ISPE FOYA Banquet and Awards Celebration on Oct. 26, 2025.

  7. 9 Drugs Granted Fast Track By FDA's Voucher Program 10/23/2025

    With 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.

  8. Leaders In The Excipient Market: Region And Type 10/21/2025

    Though 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.

  9. 3 [Potential] Solutions To A More Resilient Supply Chain 10/16/2025

    In her opening presentation, Harney noted that there were 98 drug shortages in 2024, 40 medicines in shortage for over three years, and the average duration of a shortage has increased from three years to four years.

  10. Extreme Weather Is Testing Pharma's Resilience — Is It Ready? 10/14/2025

    It may sound like a stretch, but researchers from Harvard University showed how a disproportionate amount of pharmaceutical manufacturers are in areas of climate-driven extreme weather events. Is the pharmaceutical industry currently set up to withstand them?