Editors' Desk

  1. Top 7 AI Lessons Learned 12/23/2025

    As an icebreaker to start the panel, Teresa Minero from LifeBee asked each presenter to share their top recommendations and major issues to avoid with AI.

  2. An AI Use Case in Pharma Process Optimization 12/18/2025

    Recordati Ireland’s production coordinator Ross Fitzgerald took attendees through his team’s AI journey, from identifying the problem to using AI data analytics to find a solution.

  3. It's Copy/Paste In Fleet Management Manufacturing 12/11/2025

    Copy and paste may be frowned upon in most work tasks, but not in the case of “fleet management.”  In the past few years, Roche and Novo Nordisk collaborated to introduce this concept of applying the copy/paste action to standardized, decentralized facilities.

  4. Leveraging Historical Data to Accelerate Process Understanding 12/5/2025

    At the ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo, I had the chance to sit in on a presentation by Philippe Cini, partner for A-Connect, who introduced his data-focused method of process understanding to recognize defects early, make process changes quickly and stay on schedule.

  5. 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?

  6. 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.

  7. 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

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. Makary Talks Faster Drug Reviews, 'Continuous Trials,' DTC Ads 10/31/2025

    Part one of a two-part series on FDA Commissioner Martin Makary, M.D.'s comments at the Gailen Forum in New York City on October 30, 2025.