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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…

Ensuring Quality and Efficacy of GLP-1 Agonists: Analytical Challenges and Solutions in Therapeutic Peptide Production

By Ryan Cheu / June 24, 2024

Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists represent an exciting class of drugs that have gained significant attention in recent years for their…

Antibody Drug Conjugates Q&A: A Novel Approach to Drug Delivery in Oncology

By Prajita Pandey / June 6, 2024

What is an antibody drug conjugate? An antibody drug conjugate (ADC) is an innovative drug modality that consists of three…

Native Mass Spectrometry (Native-MS) for Aggregate and Charge Variant Analysis

By Prajita Pandey / April 29, 2024

Size exclusion chromatography (SEC) and ion exchange chromatography (IEX) are traditional methods utilized for characterizing biotherapeutics under non-denaturing conditions. The…

A Guide to Quantitative NMR (qNMR)

By Ryan Cheu / February 9, 2024

Quantitative NMR (qNMR) stands as a robust method for gauging pharmaceutical purity. In the realm of analytical chemistry, nuclear magnetic…

The Past, Present and Future of ADCs

By Prajita Pandey / January 25, 2024

ADCs, short for antibody-drug conjugates, consist of three essential components: a monoclonal antibody (mAb), a linker molecule, and a small…