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SPECIAL FEATURE - Excipients: Innovation in a Shifting Pharma Landscape October 7, 2025
Cindy H. Dubin speaks with several companies and highlights this innovation and reveals how excipient suppliers are doing their part to ensure a reliable, resilient, and compliance-driven supply chain.
FORMULATION FORUM - Orally Disintegrating Tablets October 7, 2025
Shaukat Ali, PhD, and Jim Huang, PhD, say as more NCEs are being discovered, the industry is weighing all options for evaluating those molecules in different dosages to improve solubility and oral bioavailability. With requirement for taste-masking of bitter drugs with commercially available ODT excipients, it poses additional challenges for improving taste-masking and performance of molecules for the intended usages.
FORMULATION FORUM - Hot Melt Extrusion – An Enabling Technology for Poorly Soluble Drugs September 8, 2025
Jim Huang, PhD, and Shaukat Ali, PhD, say in spite of many challenges, drug manufactures continue to look for non-conventional, and often novel, polymers to expedite the development of innovative molecules coming out of discovery when none of the conventional technologies do not meet the desired objectives.
FORMULATION FORUM - Manufacturing of Solid Oral Dosage Forms by Direct Compression June 3, 2025
Jim Huang, PhD, and Shaukat Ali, PhD, say not all excipients are well suited for DC, so challenges remain to find excipients compatible to DC due to certain physicochemical properties associated with poor flowability, lack of plasticity, flexibility, and compressibility.
SPECIAL FEATURE - Bioavailability & Solubility: The Promise of Novel Ingredients April 4, 2025
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin, speaks with several innovating companies to discuss the use of novel excipients as well as other methods and technologies for tackling bioavailability and solubility once and for all.
CONTROLLED RELEASE - How Advanced Excipient Knowledge is Shaping the Future of Controlled-Release Formulations October 1, 2024
Matthias Knarr, PhD, and True Rogers, PhD, review the latest insights behind CR formulations using HPMC excipients and how HPMC substitution specifically can assist formulators in developing cutting-edge CR delivery systems with differentiated performance.
FORMULATION FORUM – Nanosuspensions - An Enabling Formulation for Improving Solubility & Bioavailability of Drugs December 4, 2023
Jim Huang, PhD, and Shaukat Ali, PhD, focus on the role of excipients and methods for preparation and application of nanosuspensions in injectable, ocular, topical, and oral drug delivery.
FUNCTIONAL EXCIPIENTS - Much More Than Filler: Solving the Challenge of Patient Non-Compliance October 2, 2023
Carin Siow, PhD, explains how the progress to tackle the root causes of medication mis-use has been frustratingly slow and believes the pharma industry’s secret weapon in the fight against non-compliance are functional excipients.
SPECIAL FEATURE - Outsourcing Formulation Development & Manufacturing: Understanding Critical Attributes Earlier in Development Leads to a More Robust Drug Product June 1, 2022
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin speaks with industry leaders on how drug sponsors and CDMOs are collaborating earlier, and highlights how third-party contractors are navigating material shortages and how the industry is shifting to address different therapeutic targets and molecules, such as mRNA.
SPECIAL FEATURE - Improving Bioavailability & Solubility: Each Molecule Is Unique March 1, 2021
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin speaks with several innovative companies to discuss novel approaches to improving bioavailability and solubility that have one commonality: they treat each molecule as an individual.
MULTI-PARTICULATE MANUFACTURING - How Does Experiment Design Affect Multi-Particulates Manufacturing? January 13, 2021
Namrata Vora, MS, Danica Cartwright, Karthikeyan Selvaraj, MPharm, and Ryan Larmon, MS, discuss how the careful application of design of experiment studies is an invaluable tool in proving the design space of complex formulations and manufacturing processes.
SPECIAL FEATURE - Excipients: Matching Ingredients to Molecules Improves Functionality April 1, 2020
Contributor Cindy Dubin speaks with several leading excipient manufacturers on how their excipient offerings are improving drug release, solubility, taste, physical characteristics, viscosity, and more for a range of molecules.
SPECIAL FEATURE - Improving Bioavailability & Solubility: Understand Your Molecule March 3, 2020
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin asked several leading companies about how they are currently overcoming today’s most pressing bioavailability and solubility challenges for their pharma clients.
2019 Respiratory Drug Development eBook - Increased Focus on Respiratory Drug & Device Development Makes Treatment More Personal June 26, 2019
This e-Book highlights some of the innovators and innovations in the respiratory sector, addresses the importance of end users in the device development process, and presents recent advancements in improving patient adherence.
FORMULATION FORUM - Amorphous Formulations for Insoluble Drugs: Rational Design & Practical Approaches on Formulation Screening & Development June 4, 2019
Jim Huang, PhD, discusses the issues associated with amorphous formulations, including solid state stability, chemical stability, reproducibility of API manufacturing, impurity of API, stability in aqueous solution, in vitro in vivo performance, and process and scale-up.
SPECIAL FEATURE - Challenging Molecules Drive Developers to Get More Creative With Excipients April 2, 2018
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin highlights the techniques various excipient manufacturers are using to develop more innovative and effective ingredients to improve the performance of drug molecules.
PARTICLE DESIGN TECHNOLOGY - Technical Guide for Solid Dispersion Development January 9, 2018
Nathan Barksdale and Elizabeth Hickman, MBA, say there are many articles on the theory and scientific principles underpinning the benefits of ASD, and introduce the reader to the steps involved in the development and manufacturing of an ASD via the spray drying process.
SPECIAL FEATURE - Bioavailability & Solubility: New Approaches to Enhance Drug Performance February 27, 2017
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin highlights many of the latest techniques to enhance bioavailability and solubility, how to determine the right technique for your compound, and how some companies are realizing faster time to market as a result.
SPECIAL FEATURE - Excipients: Enhancing the New, Poorly Soluble APIs June 1, 2015
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin interviews several excipient manufacturers who share their insights about the role excipients play in formulating and manufacturing drugs for improved bioavailability, solubility, and delivery.
INJECTABLE MICROEMULSIONS - Prolonged-Release Injectable Microemulsions: Opportunities for Pain Treatment June 4, 2014
Rajesh Dubey, PhD, and Luigi G. Martini, FRPharmS, MBA, indicate available technologies do not support development of certain formulations to treat pain; however, microemulsions with their unique features, can provide a viable alternative to develop such formulations.
Outsourcing Drug Development & Production: Technology-Driven Drug Delivery Systems for Small Molecules at Losan Pharma
Due to the increasing demand for drug delivery systems that are able to improve the properties of low soluble, poor permeable, or highly dosed new and existing drug substances, technology-driven CDMOs can offer a wide range of technology platforms to overcome such challenges….
