Editors' Desk

  1. Areas For Advancement In Peptide Manufacturing 2/27/2025

    Experts from Eli Lilly, NervGen, and Piramal Pharma Solutions discuss the myriad of ways peptide manufacturing can be improved, drawing on years of industry experience and insight.

  2. For Gilead, Sustainability Is More Than A PR Effort 2/14/2025

    Gilead's chief sustainability officer and SVP of operations, Joydeep Ganguly, explains the company's cultural focus on sustainability and how it influences everything from R&D to manufacturing. 

  3. Antibodies 2025: Venerable & Naked Or Complex & Multi-Specific? 12/19/2024

    Antibodies are the biotherapeutic bulwark, the steadfast stalwart in not just oncology, but infectious and chronic inflammatory diseases as well. We consulted with a variety of antibody developers for insight into the challenges and opportunities antibody modalities face in the coming year and beyond.

  4. The ADC Market Is Ripening For Disruption 8/21/2024

    Where there is therapeutic demand, the industry will build capacity. But with ADCs, cytotoxic payloads and a fragmented contract manufacturing landscape make the path to clinical and commercial supply dauntingly complicated. Here's how the ADC manufacturing market is shaping up, and how it might ultimately shake out.

  5. Are You Taking The HPCs In Your ADCs Seriously? 8/16/2024

    The wave of ADC (antibody-drug conjugate) development and manufacturing activity we’re currently witnessing, and importantly, the HPC (high-potency compounds) comprising the payloads in these therapies, demand thorough assessment of development and manufacturing facility design.

  6. BPSA's Single-Use Summit Celebrates Its "Stainless" Anniversary 7/29/2024

    The Bio Process Systems Alliance (BPSA) is devoted to the advance of single-use technologies in biopharmaceutical manufacturing. At its 11th International Single-Use Summit, the explosive growth in single-use was on full display, and the sourcing, safety, sustainability, and application discussions on the agenda were comprehensive.

  7. Scale And Sustainability In Single-Use Systems 6/13/2024

    I had the opportunity to cover a lot of ground on considerations for single-use technologies in biopharmaceutical manufacturing with Mark Petrich, Ph.D. when he joined me as a guest expert on the Bioprocess Online Live event Single Use Technologies For Bioprocessing: An Essential Update. Here are some of his insights on single-use scale and lifecycle management.

  8. Where's The Case For Generative AI In Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing? 6/12/2024

    The early use cases for AI in the biopharmaceutical industry—at least, the early public use cases—have largely come from R&D, and more specifically, target identification and molecular design. Where are the use cases in biologics manufacturing, supply chain management, QMS, and operations, and what’s holding us back?

  9. Single Use In Biopharma: Beyond Savings & Sustainability 4/17/2024

    SUT continues to trend in biopharmaceutical applications, driven largely by environmental and economic considerations. But there’s a lot more to the SUT story, including supply chain and standardization advantages. We dove headlong into those issues and more with independent SUT expert Paul Priebe and Krystal Biotech VP of Technical Operations Mark Petrich.

  10. Eying Up The Era Of Topical Biologics 3/19/2024

    Claris Bio’s phase 1/2 clinical trial in patients with Stage 2 or 3 Neurotrophic Keratitis (NK) is breaking new ground in the development of topically administered biologic therapies.