Accelerating Development and Building Trust in COVID-19 Vaccines With Public Quality Standards Jaap Venema, Ph.D., USP Chief Science Officer
Epidemiologists are consistently asserting that herd immunity of at least 60% of the population will be required to stem the large number of...
Quality Standards for Efficiency in Drug Development and Manufacturing
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have become acutely aware of how precious time is and the potential repercussions of delays or inefficiencies....
Applying Lessons From Ebola to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Strengthening African Health Systems While Scaling up Testing
As African nations begin to ease lockdown restrictions, health systems are bracing to prevent the novel coronavirus from spreading rapidly...
Limited Drug Sources Pose Risks to Patient Safety
The spread of COVID-19 has been a wake-up call to the world about dangers posed by over-reliance on single-country sources in the global...
Antibiotics Manufacturing Components Can Trigger Adverse Reactions. Standards Help Restore Quality and Trust.
What happens when patients who receive a trusted treatment start experiencing adverse reactions? And what can be done to help prevent it from...
Rapid Microbial Methods: The Need for Speed in Cell and Gene Therapies
When patients are administered biological treatments created from their own bodies - autologous regenerative medicines - every second counts....
Solutions to Help Ensure Biopharmaceutical Quality
By the year 2020, biopharmaceuticals are estimated to account for 50% of the most successful pharmaceutical products. (1)(2) Biologics, such as...
USP Expands Global COVID-19 Response to Tackle Substandard & Falsified Vaccines
The challenges posed by COVID-19 transcend international borders and require global solutions. This includes addressing the potential for...



