Scale-up is the term used to refer to the increase in the batch size of a product. For example, if a drug is successful, then it may scale-up multiple times throughout its life cycle to meet growing demand. Eventually, scaling down may also happen in response to shrinking demand for drug. On the way from […]
It’s hard to imagine where most industries these days would be without computer technology, and this is most definitely the case for the pharmaceutical industry. Ever since they started being used at pharmaceutical companies as far back as the 1940s, computers have contributed much to the discovery and research of drugs and pharmaceutical products over […]
Developing new drugs requires pharmaceutical companies to invest billions of dollars and years of research with no guarantee that their investment will lead to a drug ever being approved for sale. As a result, many companies are looking to information technology (IT) to help improve the efficiency of new drug research and development. If you’re […]