The spread of COVID-19 has been a wake-up call to the world about dangers posed by over-reliance on single-country sources in the global medicine supply chain.
Innovations in biotherapeutic medicines are advancing at an unprecedented pace and offer great promise for improving outcomes for patients.
Patients, their families and health care providers alike care about the quality of their medicines. For nearly 200 years, USP has contributed to the quality of medicines by providing publicly-available standards.
As personalized therapies have become a reality rather than a distant promise, the tools needed to ensure the quality of these medicines grow increasingly important.
By the year 2020, biopharmaceuticals are estimated to account for 50% of the most successful pharmaceutical products. (1)(2) Biologics, such as recombinant therapeutic proteins, vaccines, blood components, and regenerative medicines are growing faster than any other segment of medicines.
Highly complex biologics such as proteins, monoclonal antibodies, and cell and gene therapies increasingly fill biopharmaceutical pipelines across a range of therapeutic indications.
In conversations about the role of quality standards in public health, you might come across the words “compendia” and “compendial.” At USP, terms like “compendial approaches,” “compendial standards,” and “compendial tools” are part of our everyday vocabulary.
USP’s popular peptide workshop is back for a third year. Here’s what you can expect.
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