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Evaluating your product beyond standard characterization can provide a comprehensive understanding of a molecule in early phase development. Allan Watkinson, PhD, Director of Biopharmaceutical Development CMC at Covance, recently discussed a few of the assays that can help drug development sponsors gain new insights about their product and making earlier …
As biologics-based therapies have expanded, LC-MS is increasingly applied to support quantitative bioanalysis to detect diverse peptides and proteins. LC-MS can offer a few notable advantages compared to the traditional approach for quantification with ligand-binding assays (LBAs), but is typically thought of as a complementary approach.
Get insightful answers to some common questions on IND-enabling studies for cell and gene therapies (CGTs) from a recent Covance presentation. For more information on Covance solutions, visit our Cell & Gene Therapy Education Center here.
Demonstrating the potency of a biopharmaceutical is critical to the successful development and market release of a drug. For therapeutic antibodies, binding to the target antigen is the first step in its mechanism of action and is therefore a critical quality attribute (CQA) for the product. Since the potency assays …
As well as interacting with the target antigen, antibody derived therapeutics have the potential to be able to interact with components of the immune system. Interactions with the innate immune system trigger effector functions such as antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC), complement dependent cytotoxicity (CDC) and antibody dependent cellular phagocytosis …
As outlined in ICH Q6B “Test Procedures and Acceptance Criteria for Biotechnological/Biological Products” (CPMP/ICH/365/96), the regulatory expectation for any developmental biopharmaceutical is that a wide range of analytical methodologies are used to characterize the therapeutic. Generally, this means the application of orthogonal physicochemical and biophysical techniques to provide a comprehensive …
To deliver on the mission of improving health and improving lives, patients need access to safe and effective treatments. As part of safety testing, abnormal toxicity tests, also known as general safety tests, are often performed when a drug manufacturer creates a batch of its licensed pharmaceutical or biotechnology-derived product.
As COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, Covance Clinical Trials Testing Solutions (CTTS) witnessed a sudden influx of COVID-19 studies from both large pharmaceutical organizations and biotechs. Not only did CTTS need to accelerate the timelines for these drug development sponsors’ urgent studies, but they needed to provide patient-centric testing solutions, …
The Brexit1 transition period is due to conclude on December 31, 2020 when the United Kingdom (UK) will become a third country to the European Union (EU). Drug manufacturers and contract test laboratories should be proactive in understanding the potential regulatory considerations relating to commercial drug product release testing and Brexit. …
When a patient reads the label on their medicine bottle, he or she naturally relies on the medicine to contain the correct drug, be safe, work as intended and list the correct dosage. The pharmaceutical companies that produce these medicines similarly must rely on their internal manufacturing processes and quality control …