Blogs

Fran DeGrazio, Vice President, Global R&D, TCS and SPM, Pharmaceutical Packaging Systems, recently contributed a chapter on primary container components to Quality by Design for Biopharmaceutical Drug Product Development. The volume, which was released in April 2015, is the first comprehensive overview of QbD as it applies to nearly every aspect of biopharmaceutical development.

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. today announced that Eric M. Green has been appointed the company’s Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Donald E. Morel, Jr., Ph.D., current Chairman and CEO. Eric Green will join West and take on his new responsibilities on April 24, 2015.

The Tech Group has been named among the “Best Places to Work” for large companies (250-999 employees) in Phoenix, Arizona, by the Phoenix Business Journal. Tech Group, which ranked 18^th in the category, is the only manufacturing company named among the selections that also included categories for micro, small, midsize and extra-large.

Diane Paskiet, Director, Scientific Affairs, recently published, “The Product Quality Research Institute (PQRI) Leachables and Extractables Working Group Initiatives for Parenteral and Ophthalmic Drug Product (PODP),” in thePDA Journal.  PQRI is a non-profit consortium involving industry organizations, academia and regulatory agencies that together provide recommendations in support of regulatory guidance to advance drug product quality.

West’s Diane Paskiet, Doug Duriez and Gene Polini are among the authors in the recently published Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Fourth Edition.

On June 20, representatives from West joined Chairman and CEO Donald E. Morel, Jr., Ph.D., to celebrate the company’s 90th anniversary by ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. The closing ceremony at the stock exchange commemorates West’s long history of working side-by-side with top pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies around the globe to solve the challenges of delivering life-changing therapies safely and effectively to patients.