Provided below are:
● the table of contents (p.1) ● information about IPQ (p.2), and ● the editor’s note on the issue (p.3).
The need for intensive collaboration to address the complex challenges of assuring the quality and availability of the world’s medicines has only deepened in the face of the global pandemic we are now facing, as the two stories in our review of April and May make clear. ● The first story is a five-part exploration of the collaborative efforts now going on globally to advance in vitro testing in assessing and controlling adventitious viruses for vaccines and biotherapeutics – and to unleash the potential of next-gen sequencing in particular. ● The second story explores how the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals has been evolving and some of the challenges now drawing the attention of the public/private partnership.