Newsletter | February 27, 2013

02.27.13 -- FDA Approves Genentech's HER2 Treatment

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The Evolving Dynamic Of The Sponsor-CRO Relationship
By Kate Hammeke, Director of Marketing Intelligence, Nice Insight
Seasoned industry professionals will remember a time, not too long ago, when the dynamic between the sponsor and CRO was purely that of a client/vendor. CROs were engaged to reduce the fixed labor costs on the sponsor side for work that varied in demand. At the time, the goal was controlling capacity fluctuations that impacted overall profitability.


A New Direction In Mycoplasma Control
By Martha Folmsbee, Morven McAlister, and Jerold Martin, Pall Life Sciences
Martha Folmsbee, Morven McAlister, and Jerold Martin from Pall Life Sciences, discuss some of the challenges involved in the validation of sterilizing filters for mycoplasma removal and the importance of the associated process-specific tests compared to the filter manufacturer's standard tests. 

Spotlight On Contract Services

What Southwest Laboratories Depends On To Deliver Its Time-Sensitive Drug Tests
Providing drug abuse testing throughout the Western U.S. and beyond, Southwest Laboratories uses a reliable, time-definite FedEx Returns solution to ship 500 to 700 test samples every day, directly from their customers’ offices to the testing facility.


FirstDoc Migration: Documentum
A global pharmaceutical company and Sitrof client uses FirstDoc R&D for managing their FDA submission content. After acquiring another life sciences company they were left with submission content in three disparate content repositories; one in FirstDoc, and the other two in lightly customized versions of Documentum.

Industry News

FDA Approves Genentech's HER2 Treatment

Fragile X Makes Brain Cells Talk Too Much

Atossa Genetics Receives Warning Letter From The FDA

The Michael J. Fox Foundation Launches New Funding Opportunities For Parkinson's Research

ILC Dover's Flexible Containment Meets Nanomanufacturing Engineered Control Needs

Actium BioSystems Demonstrates in Vivo Feasibility Of Its Thermal Nanomedicine Cancer Treatment

RNAi Candidate ARC-520 Silences Hepatitis B Virus

4SC Discovery, LEO Pharma To Research Inflammatory Skin Diseases
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Particle Suspension
This video demonstrates the homogeneity of particle suspension in the Air-Wheel® bioreactor, even at low agitation speed, due to its vertically rotating impeller and vanes on the impeller that allow horizontal biaxial flow. In this demo 6mm-diameter surrogate plastic beads with high settling velocity were used as worst-case condition.

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