Shaping drug production

Once a new drug candidate has been identified, the Technical Research & Development (TRD) group at Novartis evolves the final drug presentation. Moving the project from Chemical to Pharmaceutical Development and to Quality Control, TRD’s task is to hand over a robust process to the commercial production facilities. Although this sounds like a standard task in the pharmaceutical industry, every drug has its own challenges to overcome along the way.

Text by Michael Mildner, Photos by Laurids Jensen and Bjoern Myhre, videos by Nicolas Heitz.