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API landscape in 2022: Drivers and solutions for small molecules

Pharmaceutical Technology

Research by GlobalData (Contract Small Molecule API Manufacturing Industry by the Numbers – 2021 Edition) shows that containment facilities are in high demand as the use of cytotoxic drugs continues to grow. This suggests a move towards high-value specialised manufacturing. Containment challenges.

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Russia’s focus on domestic pharma production could shield it from sanctions’ effects

Pharmaceutical Technology

Russia is an already insular country and its worldview has tended to be self-contained, but this has hardened in the face of recent sanctions and counter-sanctions imposed during the war with Ukraine. Pharmstandard (Moscow, Russia) and Pharmasyntez (Irkutsk Oblast, Russia) own five facilities each in Russia, the most of any pharma company.