
Describe, Diagnose, Predict and Prescribe – make it Data not Drugs!
Researchers and industry have developed a guide to data analytics for pharmaceutical manufacturing
Researchers and industry have developed a guide to data analytics for pharmaceutical manufacturing
Adam Duckett on searching for the positive news
Hedley Rees and Keith Plumb discuss how current methods of drug development are impeding engineer...
Huai Nyin (Grace) Yow and colleagues discuss the engineering challenges specific to pharmaceutica...
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Adam Duckett on the changes being forced upon us by Covid-19.
How far has the technology come, asks Parminder Bansal
Chris Lucas speaks to Adam Duckett about accelerating the UK’s emergency vaccine production capab...
Timothy Clayton reviews the myriad of considerations faced by IChemE volunteers seeking to suppor...
Matthew Duchars and John Challenger describe the plans to design and build a facility that the UK...
Testing provides the essential information needed for key decisions such as when to relax lockdow...
Withthe UK Government having announced the formation of a new taskforce that will help prepare th...
CPI discusses the importance of bringing an engineering mindset to collaborate with biologists on...
Reactor modelling reveals that pharma developers could use CSTRs to perform commercial-scale oper...
Adrian Tombling explains why drug developers need AI
James Finn describes the development of an award-winning setup for sterile filtration of APIs
Micropore Technologies, a specialist engineering company, has successfully scaled up membrane tec...
IChemE’s Water Special Interest Group (SIG) celebrated 30 years of existence at its Water for the...
An engineer’s role in rejuvenating a naturally-inspired antimicrobial
Ahead of our coming webinar on 9 October, the presenters from JMP and GSK discuss using data to i...
The University of Cambridge’s new chemical engineering and biotechnology building is open for b...
Adam Duckett reports from the launch of the University of Sheffield’s new continuous powder proce...
New reactor promises continuous processing of biotherapeutics
How an award-winning ensilication technology could remove the need to refrigerate life-saving vac...
Adam Duckett discusses breaking the vaccine cold chain
Next-generation batch technologies drive productivity and profitability
Helen Tunnicliffe reviews the winners of IChemE’s annual awards programme
Chemical engineers have a lot to answer for – including the Summer of Love. Claudia Flavell-Whi...
Pfizer's Penicillin Pioneers – Jasper Kane and John McKeen
Quality by design must be viewed as an opportunity, not as a regulatory burden
GSK is closing two UK antibiotics manufacturing operations, in Barnard Castle and Ulverston.
SEEKING to accelerate a novel method for producing inactivated vaccines to market and ensure comp...
BIONTECH has partnered with Merck and Evonik to expand lipid production for its Covid-19 vaccine.
ASTRAZENECA has signed a deal with IDT Biologika to explore options to accelerate manufacturing o...
CUREVAC, which is developing an mRNA vaccine for Covid-19, will boost its manufacturing capacity ...
WITH Covid-19 vaccine manufacture making headlines for all the wrong reasons, I spoke with expert...
VALNEVA has announced that it has started manufacturing its Covid-19 vaccine as clinical trials a...
Members of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering UK Affiliate (ISPE UK) and IC...
THE UK Government has commissioned PA Consulting to develop plans to scale up manufacturing of la...
CHEMICAL company INEOS has donated £100m (US$136.8m) to the University of Oxford, UK for a new, s...
BIONTECH has said that it aims to produce 2bn doses of its vaccine this year through increased ma...
A STOCKPILE of Ebola vaccine has been established by humanitarian organisations to help better pr...
CUREVAC has agreed to work with Bayer to accelerate the development and supply of its Covid-19 va...
ASTRAZENECA has agreed to buy US biotech firm Alexion for US$39bn in a move that will expand its ...
FOLLOWING three highly-encouraging Covid-19 vaccine trials, the light at the end of the tunnel su...
MICROPORE Technologies has announced a licence agreement for its membrane technology with South K...
ICHEME’s Covid-19 Response Team has welcomed the early results on the Pfizer and BioNTech Covid-1...
ON 5 November, in the early hours of the morning, two people were killed as a result of a reactor...
SERVICES company BES has been appointed to fit out the UK’s new Vaccine Manufacturing Innovation ...
DESPITE global efforts to develop and deploy a successful Covid-19 vaccine to end the current pan...
SCIENCE company Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced plans to expand sterile filling capacity f...
THE UK’s Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre has expanded its partners to include PSE, Siem...
THE UK Government has increased the nation’s Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing capacity. It has agre...
THE UK Government has announced a £100m (US$127.7m) investment to fund a state-of-the-art facilit...
A BLOOD test has been developed by researchers in Australia which can detect Covid-19 antibodies ...
SCIENTISTS have taken a step forward in breaking the so-called vaccine “cold chain” by creating a...
ICHEME has compiled a list of manufacturing sites in the UK and Ireland that have the potential c...
BASF has been using its supercomputer to help identify molecules that might help in the fight aga...
THE IChemE Covid-19 Response Team is supporting efforts to increase the availability of drugs tha...
ASTRAZENECA is beginning to manufacture a coronavirus vaccine candidate, following a commitment f...
THE Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC) has received funding from the UK Governme...
EVONIK is spending €25m (US$27.1m) on the first stage of a long-term project to increase contract...
THE Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is investing US$338m to develop and ma...
ASTRAZENECA says it could begin production of a vaccine for Covid-19 by the end of the year after...
ICHEME’S volunteer Covid-19 Response Team has divided into distinct workstreams, including on dia...
WOOD has been appointed GSK’s capital delivery partner for the pharmaceutical company’s Ware site...
THE UK Government has today announced the formation of a new taskforce that will help prepare the...
A CONSORTIUM of life sciences companies including GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and Pfizer, is c...
BRITISH multinational pharma company GSK is helping to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, including...
THE INSTITUTION of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) has written to the UK Government to offer support ...
ICHEME’s Pharma Special Interest Group (SIG) has called for members to come forward and help supp...
IN the fight against the spread of coronavirus, chemical companies and distilleries are stepping ...
WITH more than 75,000 cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection having killed more than 2,0...
NOURYON and Van Remmen UV Technology have teamed up to combine their technologies to remove pharm...
THE UK Government has warned in a document it has been forced to disclose that a no-deal Brexit c...
A REACTOR exploded at a pharmaceutical plant in India injuring 16 workers, according to reports.
ENGINEERING contractor WHP has won a contract to help design the UK’s Vaccines Manufacturing Inno...
SCIENCE and technology company Merck is collaborating with Iktos to use Iktos’ artificial intelli...
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK have developed a new class of multifunctional sequence...
GSK and Pfizer are merging their consumer healthcare businesses in a move that will create a mark...
RESEARCHERS led by the University of Cambridge, UK have developed a three-dimensional (3D) ‘organ...
BAYER, the German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company, has announced plans to ...
CHEMICAL engineer Frances Arnold has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pione...
NOVARTIS, the pharmaceuticals group, has announced plans to cut more than 2,000 jobs in the UK an...
RESEARCHERS at the Institute of Catalysis at Hokkaido University, Japan, have created an improved...
IN a collaboration between Imperial College London, University College London (UCL), and global p...
FANS of fast food know how tricky it is trying to squeeze out the last drops of ketchup from thos...
A LAB-ON-A-CHIP that can allow droplets to ‘surf’ across oil using acoustic waves has been develo...
NANOPARTICLES which emit fluorescent signals in the presence of scar cells could be used for non-...
FIBRES that change colour when stretched have been integrated into compression bandages, which wi...
A NEW method has been developed for drug production that avoids the use of expensive precious met...
A REPORT from the Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Network (LBNet) has identified ten biochemicals whe...
A WORKFLOW has been developed that allows for high precision manufacturing of active pharmaceutic...
TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL has agreed to buy Shire for £46bn (US$62bn) as it seeks to create a global ...
RESEARCHERS looking for a safe catalyst to use when creating gels for drug delivery have found th...
SHIRE has opened the door to a £46bn (US$64bn) takeover bid from Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical.
PROCTER & GAMBLE has agreed to buy German drugmaker Merck’s consumer healthcare unit for €3.4bn (...
JAPAN’S Takeda Pharmaceutical has revealed it is considering a bid for Ireland’s Shire as it seek...
GSK will pay US$13bn to take full control of its consumer healthcare venture with Novartis.
TWO chemical engineers - Jinghai Li and Raghunath Anant Mashelkar – have joined the judging panel...
LIVING and non-living components have been combined using microfluidics to create a hybrid cell c...
A STUDY has shown that near-infrared chemical imaging (NIR CI) can be used for monitoring the mix...
A BREAKTHROUGH has been made in the manufacturing of carbon nanotube membranes which will lead to...
AT least three people are dead after an explosion in a chemical factory in the Maharashtra Indust...
ENGINEERS have devised a way to make drug testing more efficient and affordable. The new drug dis...
A TECHNIQUE has been developed that allows two fluids to be combined mid-air by using two jets of...
RESEARCHERS at MIT have simplified the process of creating microfluidics prototypes by building t...
A NEW method has been developed to help drug developers weed out compounds that could potentially...
ROCHE has agreed a deal to buy oncology drug company Ignyta for US$27/share, a total of US$1.7bn.
TEVA PHARAMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES is to cut 14,000 jobs, more than a quarter of its workforce, as p...
THE UNIVERSITY of Sheffield plans to launch the UK’s first continuous powder processing plant, wh...
BACTERIAL cells that work as a “tape recorder”, by recording environmental interactions and time-...
MAJOR issues that could face industry, society and the environment as a result of the growing bio...
A COATING that allows the first ever continuous production of cells could remove a significant bo...
THE UK government has announced that it has appointed Patrick Vallance as its chief scientific ad...
AN ICHEME Associate Member has won a prestigious funding award for her work on a cancer treatment...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Michigan have developed vapour jet printing technology, usually ...
AN ENGINEERING approach towards designing and managing complex systems could transform health and...
A MEMORANDUM of understanding between three industry giants and Singapore’s public sector was sig...
“CYBORG” bacteria covered in tiny solar panels have been demonstrated to produce acetic acid from...
BIOSYNTHESIS of psilocybin, the psychoactive drug found in so-called “magic mushrooms”, has been ...
AS FAR as humans go, doctor-turned-investor Gregory Bailey is pretty good at spotting patterns an...
MERCK & Co has said that it still does not yet know the full impact of the NotPetya cyberattack, ...
AN ADHESIVE inspired by a species of slug has been described by researchers, who say it adheres f...
A HIGHLY enantioselective method for the decarboxylative halogenation of carboxylic acids has bee...
BIOCOMPATIBLE, biodegradable silk cocoons capable of being accurately spun on a nano-scale could ...
PRICE often limits training and research opportunities in developing countries – but researchers ...
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