Featured Pharma Online Editorial

1. Making Mental Health Drugs: Promising Therapies And Manufacturing Challenges 4/30/2026

   Psychedelic therapies have shown promise in treating mental health disorders, but it will take close collaboration and cooperation of all related agencies and manufacturers to make this promise a reality.

2. U.S. Pharma Tariffs And MFN Become Law After April 2 Update 4/15/2026

   Beginning July 31, 2026, a U.S. pharmaceutical tariff will apply to patented products and their APIs, beginning with large companies. Beroe Inc.'s Mathini Ilancheran breaks down the tariff's impact, explores its risks, and proposes five procurement strategies to addressing them.

3. 4 Facility Considerations for API Manufacturing 3/25/2026

   Success depends not only on equipment and infrastructure, but also on specialized workforce training, rigorous quality control, robust data management, and increasingly sophisticated supply chain and manufacturing technologies.

4. Organic Impurities: New Draft ICH Q3E Guidance For Leachables And Extractables 3/17/2026

   A new draft guidance document from ICH, issued jointly with the EMA, adopts the position that the assessment of leachables and extractables requires a holistic framework for risk evaluation.

5. Raising The Bar In Radiopharmaceutical Manufacturing 3/12/2026

   Ratio Therapeutics chief commercial and manufacturing officer, Scott Holbrook, joined me to discuss how his team at Ratio Therapeutics is tackling the challenges of radiopharmaceutical manufacturing.

6. 9 Pharma Trends To Watch In 2026 2/27/2026

   What does 2026 ultimately hold for the industry? To explore that question, Lawrence Blatt, CEO of Aligos Therapeutics, sat down with me to share his perspective on the trends shaping the year ahead.

7. The Rise Of The Autonomous Pharma Plant 2/18/2026

   What does a production facility of the future look like? That’s exactly what Bayer management asked its team before planning began for the world’s most modern pharmaceutical facility, Solida 1.

8. U.S. Pharma Tariffs And MFN In 2026: Manufacturing And Procurement Impact 2/18/2026

   Beroe Inc.'s Mathini Ilancheran discusses the 2025 U.S. pharma tariff framework and translates it into actionable procurement and outsourcing responses.

9. Novo's Path To The First GLP-1 Weight Loss Pill 1/23/2026

   The race to the finish line for the first oral GLP-1 treatment for weight loss was won on Dec. 22, 2025, when the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved oral Wegovy by Novo Nordisk as the first daily, oral GLP-1 pill for weight management.

10. 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.