Clinical Research Solutions
Virtual GCP Auditing: Your Questions Answered!
How quickly the auditing landscape has changed! Less than one year ago if ProPharma were asked to perform a clinical audit on your firm’s behalf, we would reply with "when, what, and where?" Today...
Quality & Compliance
7 “Aha Moments” in Data Integrity
If you are interested in data integrity, you likely have read many articles about the topic. This blog delivers 7 new insights to data integrity, looking at it from different angles. Seven ways to...
Clinical Research Solutions
4 Hidden Obstacles to Clinical Trial Success
It's no wonder scientists begin clinical trials with great excitement: combine promising discoveries with the best test sites, scientists, and as many qualified, willing patients as possible, and off...

Regulatory Sciences
Improving Cost Efficiency, Speed, and Completeness of Generic Applications
An abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) is a “streamlined” marketing application that is submitted to the FDA for review containing information and data about a generic drug product. Once...
Clinical Research Solutions
The Key to a Stable Supply of Medicines
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed a structural weakness in many products' supply chains. In terms of supply of pharmaceutical products, supply shocks were not mitigated when intermediates or production...
Clinical Research Solutions
Lean Principles: A Life Sciences Overview
Today, with the FDA endorsing fewer new treatments, life sciences companies are pressured to develop better therapies while also struggling to control costs and retain their star employees. And while...
Clinical Research Solutions
A Guide to Understanding Long Term Follow-Up for Gene Therapy Clinical Trials
When conducting a clinical trial, there are many aspects sponsors need to be aware of with regards to clinical safety, product efficacy, and the ability to bring treatments through the multiple...
Quality & Compliance
6 Tips for Evaluating Your CMO’s PAI Readiness
The submission of your drug application (NDA, ANDA, BLA, etc.) is an exciting accomplishment, and one of the first major milestones is a pre-approval inspection (PAI) of the manufacturing sites...
Quality & Compliance
Conducting a PAI Mock Inspection: How to Execute and Evaluate Your Findings
Did you miss our last blog on PAI Readiness? Catch up here to learn what a PAI is and how to prepare. Congratulations! You conducted a Mock Inspection in preparation for your upcoming Pre-Approval...
3 Factors to Consider in the Manufacturing Phase for Drug Device Combination Products
Combination products represent an important and growing category of therapeutic and diagnostic products. They come in several configurations and can be composed of any combination of a drug and a...
Clinical Research Solutions
Pediatric Labeling Best Practices
A large percentage of drugs are used off-label in pediatric patients. Unfortunately, when a patient uses a drug off-label, the drug is being used without FDA approval, which might result in...
8 Common QMS Mistakes to Avoid
Previously in part two of this three-part blog series, “Mitigating Compliance Risk with Your Quality Management System,” we discussed how a robust and risk-based Quality Management System (QMS)...
Clinical Research Solutions
Mitigating Compliance Risk with Your Quality Management System
In the first blog of this three-part series, "Overlooking Your QMS Could Cost You," we discussed the cost of "good" versus "poor" quality, and the importance of investing in a "good" Quality...
Clinical Research Solutions
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems in the Medical Industry
Drug and medical device development and manufacturing is a complex process that involves multiple supply chains, various monitoring systems, and countless players from R&D to market. Due to the...
Clinical Research Solutions
Overlooking Your QMS Could Cost You
A Quality Management System (QMS) bridges an organization's individual compliance practices with regulatory requirements. It establishes the infrastructure and oversight requirements for...
Digital Transformation
Improve your R&D Strategy with These 6 Tips
In 2017, R&D investments in the pharmaceutical space reached more than $70 billion, with projected figures of over $200 billion by 2024. Pharma is one of the two sectors with semiconductors that are...