Strategic funding priorities in the pharmaceutical sciences allied to Quality by Design (QbD) and Process Analytical Technology (PAT)

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  • Buket Aksu
  • Thomas De Beer
  • Staffan Folestad
  • Jarkko Ketolainen
  • Hans Lindén
  • Joao Almeida Lopes
  • Marcel de Matas
  • Wim Oostra
  • Rantanen, Jukka
  • Marco Weimer
Substantial changes in Pharmaceutical R&D strategy are required to address existing issues of low productivity, imminent patent expirations and pressures on pricing. Moves towards personalized healthcare and increasing diversity in the nature of portfolios including the rise of biopharmaceuticals however have the potential to provide considerable challenges to the establishment of cost effective and robust supply chains. To guarantee product quality and surety of supply for essential medicines it is necessary that manufacturing science keeps pace with advances in pharmaceutical R&D. In this position paper, the EUFEPS QbD and PAT Sciences network make recommendations that European industry, academia and health agencies focus attention on delivering step changes in science and technology in a number of key themes. These subject areas, all underpinned by the sciences allied to QbD and PAT, include product design and development for personalized healthcare, continuous-processing in pharmaceutical product manufacture, quantitative quality risk assessment for pharmaceutical development including life cycle management and the downstream processing of biopharmaceutical products. Plans are being established to gain commitment for inclusion of these themes into future funding priorities for the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI).
Original languageEnglish
JournalEuropean Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Volume47
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)402-405
Number of pages4
ISSN0928-0987
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Sep 2012

    Research areas

  • Biomedical Research, Biopharmaceutics, Drug Design, Drug Industry, European Union, Individualized Medicine, Quality Control, Risk Assessment, Technology, Pharmaceutical
  • Former Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

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