Blogs

Diane Paskiet, Ph.D., Director of Scientific Affairs, will present “Biopharmaceutical Quality: Factoring Extractables into the Risk Equation” at Cambridge Health Insitute’s 14^th Annual PepTalk 2015 conference on January 22-23, in San Diego, CA.  The program, which was co-developed by Thomas Egert, Research Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH & Co. KG, will focus on risks to quality posed by materials that contact biologics during manufacturing, storage and those associated with the final packaging configurations can pose risks to quality.

West Pharmaceutical Services Brazil is pleased to host the VII Technical Symposium on October 28, 2014, at the Melia Hotel Jardim Europa in Sao Paulo, Brazil. 

Many of the top-selling biologic drug products will soon come off-patent. As a result, according to IMS, the biosimilar market is expected to reach between US$1.9-2.6 billion by 2015.

West authors Diane Paskiet, Kim Miller, Laura Stubbs and Diego Zurbriggen contributed to several chapters in the new “Leachables and Extractables Handbook: Safety Evaluation, Qualification, and Best Practices Applied to Inhalation Drug Products” available from Wiley Scientific.