DSCSA Requirements and Responsibilities for Drug Manufacturers (Sponsor vs CMO)
With the final deadline for complete compliance with the FDA's Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) looming on the horizon, where do you find your organization? Although the FDA has now issued two...
Top 10 Best Practices for Successfully Obtaining Second Round of Funding for Biotech Startups
Securing funding is a crucial milestone for biotech startups aiming to advance their research and bring innovative products to market. Once the initial round of funding is secured, the next challenge...
Biotech Start Up: How to Transition from Early Phase Biotech to Late-Stage Biotech
Biotech startups face a number of challenges as they progress through the various stages of drug development. While early-stage biotechs focus on developing and testing their products, late-stage...
Compliance Auditing: A Peek into Common Critical Findings
Compliance auditing is a crucial process in the pharmaceutical industry, that helps ensure the safety, effectiveness, and high quality of pharmaceutical products and medical devices. Compliance...
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What You Need to Know About GxP Independent Compliance Audits, Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of our blog series on "What You Need to Know About GxP Independent Compliance Audits." In Part 1, we discussed the importance of GxP audits, the different audit types, and why...
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What You Need to Know About GxP Independent Compliance Audits, Part 1
In this post, we’re going to discuss the various types of GxP Compliance Audits, internal versus independent third-party audits. the role that independent auditors play in conducting compliance...
Revised Annex 1, EudraLex Volume 4: Deadline to Comply: August 2023
The deadline to comply with the revised EudraLex Volume 4, Annex 1 is August 25th, 2013. Only for a sole point (point 8.123: "product transfer/loading/unloading areas for lyophilizers“) a later...
7 Critical Factors for Successful Selection of CDMO for Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing
Developing, optimizing, and manufacturing Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMP's), such as Cell and Gene Therapy (CAGT) products is extremely complex. The choice of a reliable Contract...
What is Product Lifecycle Management and Why is it Critical for Success?
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the process of managing a product from conception through end of of life (EOL), and clearly includes conception (design and development) and commercialization....
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How to Select the "Right" CMO Partner
There are many ways in which you can evaluate a Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) to identify the best fit for your company’s needs. Every company knows, timing is critical to success. But...
Prepare for Your Next Audit: A 5-Point GMP Checklist
Ensuring you have full control over your processes, facility, and quality management system (QMS), and ultimately your final product quality, is a demanding and important task. An inability to do so...
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Deep Dive: FDA Guidance on Gene Therapy Products: RCR Testing and Monitoring
In January 2020, FDA published a guidance document entitled “Testing of Retroviral Vector-Based Human Gene Therapy Products for Replication Competent Retrovirus During Product Manufacture and Patient...
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What is Software Quality Assurance (SQA) and Do You Need it For Your Business?
If your only method of quality assurance is software testing, you're wasting valuable time and resources. Software Quality Assurance (SQA) is integrated into your software development life cycle to...
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Project Management and a Successful Reduction in Investigations Backlog: The Beauty and the Beast
Many of us have been faced with this beast that needs taming: a regulatory agency has conducted an inspection of your facility. Their observation is that the backlog of investigations at your site is...
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5 Steps to CMO Identification and Selection for Cell and Gene Therapies
After assuring clinical validity, finding and managing the right contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs)/contract development manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) is a Sponsor's major concern when...
12 Critical Questions and Answers for a Successful Tech Transfer
12 Critical Questions and Answers for a Successful Tech Transfer Now, more than ever, companies are transferring products and processes from one site to another, often facing pressures on time,...