FUJIFILM Corporation (President: Kenji Sukeno) has announced that it has expanded its manufacturing capacity at FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical Co., Ltd. to significantly increase production of its influenza antiviral drug “Avigan® Tablet” (generic name: favipiravir) for treating patients with COVID-19. To further boost the supply of Avigan, Fujifilm is allocating additional capacity at its FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Co., Ltd. facility in Japan, for production of pharmaceutical...
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) will use LabLogic’s Tracer-QC to improve quality control of F-18 based radiotracers. MSK is one of the world’s oldest and largest cancer centers, providing innovative research and educational programmes for over 130 years. MSK...
Elfab is launching a new solution designed to meet the needs of the global pharmaceutical industry. Pure-Gard is a pressure relief device specifically for use in sanitary (hygienic) manufacturing environments including pharmaceutical and food. The product has been designed and...
Ian Shott is chairman of BPE, one of the UK’s leaders in engineering process design. Here, he explores why continuous processing is seeing such a rise in popularity within the pharmaceutical sector. For decades, the cost of pharmaceutical manufacturing has been...
Analytik, a company that provides cutting-edge scientific instrumentation, has announced the recent installation of GeSiM 3D bioprinter at Queen’s University Belfast. It will be used in the development of new processes including the manufacture of medical and drug delivery devices....
£1M Funding Announced for UK Pharma Sector : Bermele has been advised with a £1 million capital-raising move by lawyers at the Birmingham office of Shakespeare Martineau in order to target acquisitions in the pharma and biotech sectors. Bermele has...
Further expansion has been announced by Biotechpharma UAB, a leading biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), of its fermentation capacity to 5,000 L, along with an additional state-of-the-art process development laboratory, investing more than €50 million in the expansion....
CurePharma, a Yorkshire distribution company that helps British pharmaceutical manufacturers export to the Middle East, has opened its first office overseas in Doha, Qatar. The expansion comes after the company exported £500,000 worth of prescription pharmaceuticals and over the counter...
Innovate UK has announced a £10 million investments in projects that aim to develop innovative manufacturing methods for producing medicines. The funding is part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund that supports leading-edge healthcare. The challengeâs goal is to invest...
A new research published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, proved that the hydroxychloroquine off-label alternatives for hand osteoarthritis are ineffective and can even create adverse reactions to some patients. Lead researcher Dr Sarah Kingsbury, from the University of...
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