Thursday, June 25, 2020 Daily Archives

eBook: Cancer Vaccines â â€” Innovation Fuels an Immunotherapy Renaissance

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Despite early successes a decade ago, cancer vaccines designed to deliver peptides or proteins — or nucleic acids encoding those antigens — generally have fizzled out since then. As a result, cancer vaccine development and the field of immunotherapy lost some traction overall. But as freelance contributor Jim Kling describes in this eBook, new innovations in product design, testing, and manufacturing are fueling a renaissance in cancer vaccine development. From checkpoint inhibitors to neoantigens, immune regulators, and beyond, companies are…

June 25, 2020

Protein or Not? Advanced High-Throughput Aggregate Analysis with the Aura™

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This webcast features: Bernardo Cordovez, Chief Science Officer and Founder, Halo Labs In protein-based formulations, distinguishing aggregated active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) from other particle types is important for understanding the root cause of instability. Until now, existing methods have been either unreliable or too cumbersome to use in many workflows. Here we introduce the Aura™ 96-well low-volume aggregate and particle imaging system, which can rapidly size, count, and characterize particles and identify them as proteins, non-proteins, hydrophobic, or other types…

June 25, 2020

eBook: Formulation, Fill, Finish â â€” Biopharmaceutical Drug Products for a Modern Age

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Biopharmaceutical drugs are increasing in sophistication, requiring technological advancements to solve related challenges. The contributors to this BPI eBook highlight drug-product formulation concerns and collaborative efforts toward solving the fill–finish conundrum. First, the BioPhorum’s Scott Ewan describes a holistic approach to container–closure integrity and the organization’s work toward developing and expanding upon that approach. Ewan explores how advancing analytical technologies, risk management, and quality by design (QbD) are changing the strategies related to container–closure integrity, which remains a significant aspect…

June 25, 2020