Category: Pharmaceutical
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Pharmaceutical biology manufacturing: Sharing costs and Manufacturing capacity
Pharmaceutical companies are thought has rich giants with many resources available to them. However, they optimize manufacturing costs for small molecule chemical entities by outsourcing parts of the manufacturing, forming alliances with chemistry suppliers or basing their operations in low cost countries, like Puerto Rico. This works well for chemistry but for biological entity manufacturing,…
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Biologics and drugs are not the sole solution
Consider the chemical war on mosquitoes. Mosquito has been the vector of so many diseases including malaria and dengue that it makes one wonder whether we are capable of winning this battle with the mosquito. This little pest has probably killed more humans than all wars combined and yet we have not been able to…
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Innovation in pharmaceutical companies
Bob Langer at MIT is a recognized inventor with nearly 811 patents and with more than 25 companies started. He has come up with so many ideas and is so creative that it is amazing to compare him with Thomas Edison who had nearly ~1000 US patents. Interestingly, he has made some interesting on how…
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Mechanism of action of drugs
As more drugs are discovered, it is often assumed that we understand the logical mechanisms of how drug acts on specific physiology and in terms of bacteria and virus, how that drug inhibits the growth or survival of the microbe. However, in many cases the mechanism of action is understood much later. In the early…