November/December 2020

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2021 COMPANY PROFILES & CAPABILITIES

For each participating company, this section presents a detailed summary highlighting their core technologies, capabilities, technologies, and services.

FEATURES

2021 COMPANY PROFILES & CAPABILITIES

For each participating company, this section presents a detailed summary highlighting their core technologies, capabilities, technologies, and services.

FORMULATION FORUM - Age-Appropriate Pediatric Formulation Development

Jim Huang, PhD, reviews how a pediatric formulation should consider the following factors: difference in physiological and pharmacokinetic of patient populations, dosage form selection, route of administration, dose accuracy, dose flexibility, drug and excipient tolerability (safety and toxicity), patient compliance (palatability/swallowability), stability, and drug accessibility.

PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY - Overcoming the Challenges of Drug Brain Delivery With a Novel Brain Delivery Vector

Mei Mei Tian, PhD, explains how the xB3 platform has the potential to support development of treatments for CNS diseases that can treat thousands of patients in the years ahead.

POLYMERIC DELIVERY SYSTEM - Next-Generation Long-Acting Implantables Using Surface-Eroding Elastomers

Stephanie Reed, PhD, Carissa Smoot, and Dennis Shull describe how PGSU ultimately offers many advantages over other polymers for long-acting implantables, particularly for high-loading, long-duration implants that are gaining interest in the pharmaceutical industry.

VACCINE DEVELOPMENT - COVID-19 Vaccine Focusing on T Cells to Protect the Most Vulnerable

Jeffrey Wolf, MBA, JD, says while most vaccines in development are targeted to protect healthy people, few are focusing on those who are most at risk - seniors and those with co-morbidities like heart failure, obesity, or type 2 diabetes.

EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW - Yourway: Supporting COVID-19 Studies & Vaccine Distribution

Leandro Moreira, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Yourway, discusses what role the company will play in globally transporting COVID-19 vaccine(s), how Yourway is gearing up for this project, and the challenges of this extraordinary task.