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Transforming pharmaceutical manufacturing: The AI revolution

European Pharmaceutical Review

Accelerated drug discovery: Simulations and predictive models powered by AI will speed up the drug development process, effectively slashing time to market for drugs. Internet] US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 2015; 13:8-17. Tuijin Jishu / Propuls. 2023; 44(3):1384-1392. cited 2023Dec].

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Patents: a necessary evil?

European Pharmaceutical Review

Patents are often described as the ‘lifeblood’ of pharmaceutical companies. 1 However, patent protection for pharmaceutical products is an economic trade-off between providing monopoly rights that incentivise development of future products and permitting higher drug prices to recoup the investment.

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Pharmaceutical microbiology: key developments 2022

European Pharmaceutical Review

This also occupies a large resource, given the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirement for double plate checking using a second ‘independent’ person. Tony Cundell: Perhaps the second greatest challenge is the ongoing transition from products based on small molecules to large molecules to cellular therapies.