CONTENTS
Autumn 2026
Features
8 SPOT LIGHT
Powering more sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing through green electricity
Green electricity has an important role to play in making pharmaceutical manufacturing more sustainable. Translating environmental objectives into practical progress, however, requires renewable energy solutions tailored to each site’s infrastructure, electricity demands and operational requirements.
Manufacturing
12 The testing blind spot
Could digital integration and smarter workflows transform the NHS’s pre-analytical process and improve patient safety?
15 Beyond UV: new approaches to protein quantitation for distributed and data-driven bioprocessing
As bioprocessing becomes more connected and data-driven, can protein quantitation move beyond the lab to deliver more actionable insights where they matter most?
18 Rethinking downstream process development for the next generation of biologics
How can downstream processing keep pace with increasingly complex biologics? Greater selectivity and process intensification could help build more flexible and efficient purification strategies.
Digital
20 Building lab-in-a-loop architecture can help science move faster
What if every experiment could inform the next? Lab-in-a-loop architectures are bringing scientific reasoning and automation together to accelerate biopharmaceutical R&D.
24 AI is accelerating antibody design. Can lab validation keep up?
AI is accelerating antibody design. Can lab validation keep up?
Artificial intelligence can generate antibody sequences far faster than conventional expression workflows can test them. A fit-for-purpose cell-free triage layer can turn digital designs into early expression and binding evidence, while reserving mammalian systems for the questions only they can answer.
Lab Design
28 Designing laboratories for specialist capabilities
How do you design laboratories that can accommodate capabilities you don’t yet know you’ll need? As pharmaceutical pipelines diversify, that question is becoming central to lab planning.
Imaging and Sensing
32 Optimising vessel pressure control: how integrated systems are enhancing process standards and efficiency
Ensuring accurate vessel pressure control can be crucial for process quality. To achieve this, optimising valve response time is key, which means that integrated, sterilisation-in-place-capable systems can have an important advantage.
Discovery and Design
36 Designing the next generation of at-home diagnostics
IPT speaks to Ali T at LotusDx about the challenges for accessible diagnostics, from developing accurate and user-friendly at-home tests to building trust and connecting testing with effective healthcare pathways.
39 Tapping into the potential of vitamins as excipients
The health and nutritional benefits of vitamins are well known, but they are becoming increasingly important to drug developers for their value as multifunctional excipients.
Regulars
5 Eds Desk
6 Product News
IPT highlights some of the most recent exciting advancements in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
42 Events
A collation of the top Pharma events for Autumn 2026!
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