The Off Script podcast offers in-depth interviews and discussions with industry experts about hot-button topics in pharma, and goes behind the scenes of Pharma Manufacturing’s print and online coverage, which follows the industry’s biggest issues surrounding scale-up, technology innovations, regulations and more!
This episode of Off Script: A Pharma Manufacturing Podcast features a conversation with Jana Falkenberg, senior legal counsel and corporate compliance officer at Vetter Pharma, a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) headquartered in Germany.
Falkenberg, who is responsible for the continuous improvement of the compliance management system at Vetter, makes the case that corporate compliance encompasses le...
Building on insights from CRB’s Horizons: Life Sciences 2025 report, this second installment of our conversation with Peter Walters, Fellow of Advanced Therapies at CRB, explores the modalities driving forward momentum across the life sciences industry, the expanding role of standardization in manufacturing networks, and how tariffs and domestic investment strategies are shaping the future of pharma manufacturing.
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Based on insights from CRB’s Horizons: Life Sciences 2025 report, this episode of Off Script: A Pharma Manufacturing Podcast features a conversation with Peter Walters, Fellow of Advanced Therapies at CRB. Walters discusses how the industry is advancing toward continuous manufacturing, highlighted by a key finding from the report — 65% of large companies are pursuing end-to-end continuous manufacturing.
This is part one of a two-pa...
Smart manufacturing is “nearly universal” with 95% of manufacturers saying they are using or evaluating smart technology, according to a new survey from Rockwell Automation.
Greg Slabodkin Read by Brittany DuncanHydrogenation can serve as a critical link in chemical synthesis, particularly between nitration and phosgenation. When integrated strategically, it helps enable safer, more efficient production processes.
To better understand this connection, we spoke with Dr. Luca Mantilli, R&D Chemist at Valsynthese, the fine chemicals division of Société Suisse des Explosifs Holding (SSE). Dr. Mantilli discussed how hydrogenation was implem...
The three Big Pharma companies on their earnings calls this week tried to reassure investors that they have the global footprints to mitigate the effects of tariffs.
The good — Thermo Fisher opens center to boost cell therapy development The bad — FDA cites Aurobindo plant after Raleigh inspection The ugly — Trump probes pharma imports as tariff threat looms
Join us each week as we do a quick review of three compelling stories from the pharma world — one good, one bad, and one ugly. Up this week:
The good — Novartis to invest $23B in U.S. manufacturing and R&D, including seven new sites The bad — U.S. urged to invest $15B to counter China’s biotech rise The ugly — Trump signals ‘major’ tariffs on pharma, urging manufacturing shift back to U.S.
Join us each week as we do a quick review of three compelling stories from the pharma world — one good, one bad, and one ugly. Up this week:
The good — Cellares, Cabaletta validate automated CAR T production The bad — FDA warns Aspen over sterility issues The ugly — FDA rejects Hengrui, Elevar cancer combo again
Join us each week as we do a quick review of three compelling stories from the pharma world — one good, one bad, and one ugly. Up this week:
The good — Axplora expands its antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) manufacturing capacity to support growing demand.
The bad — Merck KGaA’s CDMO business reports a decline
The ugly — The FDA issues a warning letter to Granules India over manufacturing violations
Join us each week as we do a quick review of three compelling stories from the pharma world — one good, one bad, and one ugly. Up this week:
The good — Eli Lilly expands manufacturing to boost supply
The bad — FDA blocks imports from two Indian API makers over manufacturing violations
The ugly — ICU Medical recalls potassium chloride injection bags over labeling error
Join us each week as we do a quick review of three compelling stories from the pharma world — one good, one bad and one ugly. Up this week:
The good — Novartis boosts Slovenia investment to $3.6B
The bad — Trump tariffs unsettle biopharma FDI
The ugly — FDA warns Global Calcium, blocks US imports
Join us each week as we do a quick review of three compelling stories from the pharma world — one good, one bad and one ugly. Up this week:
The good — FDA approves Opdivo subcutaneous version
The bad — Marinus Pharmaceuticals sells operations
The ugly — Novo Nordisk pushes back against compounding pharmacies
It’s 1996 in rural North Carolina, and an oddball crew makes history when they pull off America’s third largest cash heist. But it’s all downhill from there. Join host Johnny Knoxville as he unspools a wild and woolly tale about a group of regular ‘ol folks who risked it all for a chance at a better life. CrimeLess: Hillbilly Heist answers the question: what would you do with 17.3 million dollars? The answer includes diamond rings, mansions, velvet Elvis paintings, plus a run for the border, murder-for-hire-plots, and FBI busts.
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