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Bioanalysis at Emery Pharma: Your Questions Answered

By Ryan Cheu / March 21, 2025

In the fast-paced world of drug development, bioanalysis plays a crucial role in determining a drug’s pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics…

Post Antibiotic Effect: The Importance of Assessing Microbial Response After an Initial Antimicrobial Challenge

By Janet Liu / March 20, 2025

When people hear the words “antibiotic”, they often imagine a drug killing harmful bacteria when the two come into contact.…

Understanding Antimicrobial Testing: A Guide to MIC, MBC, and More

By Janet Liu / March 14, 2025

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing concern in healthcare and pharmaceutical research, making robust antimicrobial testing crucial for developing effective therapies.…

Biomarker Discovery: Leveraging Cell-Based Assays

By Prajita Pandey / March 5, 2025

Cell-based assays are vital for understanding cellular responses to drugs, environmental factors, and genetic changes, making them crucial for drug…

Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs): A Powerful Approach to Targeted Cancer Therapy

By Prajita Pandey / March 3, 2025

Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs) represent an innovative class of targeted cancer therapies that combine the specificity of antibodies with the…

Bridging Study: Comparing QQQ and HRMS for Impurity X Quantitation, determining their regulatory alignment, and evaluating method transfer feasibility

By Ryan Cheu / February 27, 2025

In pharmaceutical analysis, selecting the right instrumentation is critical for ensuring precise and regulatory-compliant impurity quantitation. At Emery Pharma, we…

An Overview of Nitrosated Drug Substance Related Impurities (NDSRIs)

By Ryan Cheu / October 25, 2024

Nitrosamines in Drug Substance (DS) In 2018 health authorities became aware of the nitrosamine N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) in valsartan drug substance.…

The Critical Role of Bioanalytical Platform Selection: Ligand-Binding Assays vs Mass Spectrometry

By Prajita Pandey / September 19, 2024

The selection of a bioanalytical platform is critical because it directly influences the accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of the data…

Countdown to Compliance: The August 2025 Deadline for NDSRI Testing Looms Over Pharmaceutical Industry

By Ryan Cheu / August 22, 2024

As the pharmaceutical industry approaches the crucial deadline of August 2025, manufacturers of both currently marketed and newly approved drug…

Antimicrobial Textiles Testing

By Janet Liu / July 23, 2024

Humans have been weaving textiles and fashioning clothing from fabrics for thousands of years, but one of the great challenges…