The Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) Analysis of the Establishment of the University of the Philippines Pharmaceutical Science Service Laboratory (UPPSSL) delves into the critical role of pharmaceutical research and service laboratories in advancing drug development, ensuring patient safety, and fostering healthcare innovation. Through a meticulous examination encompassing a literature review, SWOT analysis and Key Informant Interviews (KII), this study evaluates the internal strengths and weaknesses of proposed services such as Product Development, Pharmacokinetic Studies, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, and Biowaiver Studies. By aligning these services with market demands and regulatory standards, the UPPSSL aims to become a pivotal player in the pharmaceutical research landscape. The validation process through KII ensures that strategic decisions are informed by stakeholder perspectives, enhancing the laboratory's operational efficiency and contribution to the industry.

Drug research involves scientific discovery, technological inventions and product development. This multiple dimensional effort embodies both high risk and high reward and is considered one of the most complicated human activities. Prior to the initiation of a program, an in-depth analysis of "what to do" and "how to do it" must be conducted. On the macro level, market prospects, capital required, risk assessment, necessary human resources, etc. need to be evaluated critically. For execution, drug candidates need to be optimized in multiple properties such as potency, selectivity, pharmacokinetics, safety, formulation, etc., all with the constraint of finite amount of time and resources, to maximize the probability of success in clinical development. Drug discovery is enormously complicated, both in terms of technological innovation and organizing capital and other resources. A deep understanding of the complexity of drug research and our competitive edge is critical for success. Our unique government-enterprise-academia system represents a distinct advantage. As a new player, we have not heavily invested in any particular discovery paradigm, which allows us to select the optimal approach with little organizational burden. Virtue R&D model using CROs has gained momentum lately and China is a global leader in CRO market. Essentially all technological support for drug discovery can be found in China, which greatly enables domestic R&D efforts. The information technology revolution ensures the globalization of drug discovery knowledge, which has bridged much of the gap between China and the developed countries. The blockbuster model and the target-centric drug discovery paradigm have overlooked the research in several important fields such as injectable drugs, orphan drugs, and following high quality therapeutic leads, etc. Prejudice against covalent ligands, prodrugs, nondrug-like ligands can also be taken advantage of to find novel medicines. This article will discuss the current challenges and future opportunities for drug innovation in China.
Academies and Institutes ; Biomedical Research ; China ; Drug Costs ; Drug Design ; Drug Discovery ; economics ; Industry ; economics ; Investments ; economics ; Orphan Drug Production ; Public-Private Sector Partnerships

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Drug Industry* ; Prescriptions*

The development of new drugs and medical devices has been attributed to constant innovation, and the medical device industry in particular is growing faster than the drug industry. The medical device market in Korea is growing, with an average annual growth rate of 12.6% from 2006 to 2008. The production amount of medical devices categorized as Class 3 or Class 4 increased more rapidly than Class 1 or Class 2 with an increase in portion size. Clinical trials are a crucial process through which the safety and efficacy of medical devices is evaluated prior to allowing them to be used by the public. Recently, the approval rate of clinical trials for medical devices by the Korea Food & Drug Administration has increased, indicating that clinical trials that could be scientifically feasible and ethically justified were planned. To satisfy the increasing need for high quality clinical trials, a total of 6 medical device clinical trial center consortia have been designated by the Ministry of Health & Welfare as of July 2010. Medical devices take significantly less time to get to the market compared to drugs and there is much need for innovation. Therefore, the clinical trial market for new medical devices is expected to grow faster than previously forecast.
Drug Industry ; Korea

After The 6th Party Congress, Vietnam pharmaceutical industry prospered, especially in 1990s. Pharmaceutical industry was rising; drug market in Vietnam became eventful and plentiful, responded more and more effectively for the healthcare needs of people. The author mentioned situations of pharmaceutical production and trade in Vietnam during 1996-2002 period: kinds of pharmaceutical companies, situation of drug use, situation of production and trade of Vietnamese pharmaceutical companies and ensuring drug quality
Drug Industry ; Pharmaceutical Preparations

Objects: labour force capital and labour market in some pharmaceutical manufacturing enterprises during years of 1991-1994. Methods: efficacy of working, labour cost, studying and building a period of business, manufacture. High evaluation on needs of human resource, who were trained to become enough standard for moral and talent in arranged sites and close technical process.
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Drug Industry

This paper introduced and classify the common mistakes in the study and use of pharmaceutical materials including mistakes due to the same form, due to the processing that changed the primary form of materials, casual distribution of materials, identical name, identification of botanical resources, imitate materials and lack of knowledge of material resources.
Pharmacy ; Medical Errors ; Drug Industry

Overtaking and coming to meet are a challenge to the Vietnamese pharmacentical industry on the road of integration. A large system such as Vietnam’s pharmaceutical system can cover various smaller system existing in diverse periods of development. Therefore overtaking and coming to meet is a challenge to Vietnam’s pharmacentical industry on the road of international integration. In our country, apart from the slogan of “overtaking the developed countries” there is an other slogan of “coming to meet”. Coming to meet the level of some leading branches of technology is an essential task, needing the concrete and strick management of MOH for developing the pharmacentical system by the years 2005, 2010…; assuring its important position in our national economy
Drug Industry ; Vietnam ; Pharmaceutical Preparations

Process validation is strictly required in good manufacturing practice. For doing so, Shewhart charts can be used effectively. In this work, two types of Shewhart charts including X-bar chart and R chart were applied to validate the production processes of Rantitidin tablets and Tryotricin lozenges. By using six rules of evaluation, the statistical process control of the mean tablet weights were clearly shown
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Tablets ; Drug Industry