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Indian pharma manufacturing: rising investment in Andhra Pradesh

Pharmaceutical Technology

Indian pharma manufacturing continues to be the backbone of drug supplies worldwide, and GlobalData analysis suggests US overreliance on the country for generic drug supply. Telangana’s pharma manufacturing industry is well established and continues to have more than double the pharma sites of Andhra Pradesh. © GlobalData.

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Chinese manufacturers’ transition to innovative pharma requires more investment

Pharmaceutical Technology

Advanced biologic production involving cell and gene therapies is currently limited but concentrated in Eastern China in provinces such as Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu for US FDA-approved sites. The Chinese pharma manufacturing industry is renowned for its generic API manufacturing.

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Decline of novel drug approvals means less business for cutting-edge CMOs

Pharmaceutical Technology

The FDA approved fewer innovative drugs, New Molecular Entities (NMEs), in 2022 than it did in 2021: only 42 drugs compared to 59 drugs. This is due to generally more stringent criteria on approvals in the wake of the Aduhelm scandal. However, non-NME and biosimilar approvals increased in 2022.

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AZ exits US vaccine plant after mix-up spoils J&J’s COVID jab

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AstraZeneca is shifting production of its COVID-19 vaccine away from a plant in Baltimore which also makes Johnson & Johnson’s shot, after human error resulted in the contamination of 15 million doses. . Emergent claims however that one batch of the vaccine simply failed quality controls, and no contamination took place.

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

Pharmaceutical Technology

Companies that own Russian pharma contract manufacturing or supply chain sites include Novo Nordisk (Bagsvaerd, Denmark); UPS (Atlanta, Georgia, US) subsidiary Marken (London, UK); Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Massachusetts) subsidiary Patheon (Durham, North Carolina); Servier (Paris, France); and Takeda (Tokyo, Japan).

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Biologics – The Next Step in Revolutionary Medication

Roots Analysis

With the increased interest and gradual shift of investment from small molecule drugs to biologics and the establishment of several biologics manufacturing companies / biologics CMOs, more than 250 biologic therapies and vaccines have been developed, globally.

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CMO Moves: Regulatory Catalysts for Drug Manufacturing-November

Pharmaceutical Technology

Each month, Pharmaceutical Technology takes a look at recent decisions taken by regulatory and reimbursement agencies and identifies the key manufacturing players that can be impacted by them. Following similar decisions by the American and European regulators, Swissmedic approved Pfizer/BioNTech’s bivalent Comirnaty booster.