Excipients
2020 COMPANY PROFILES & CAPABILITIES
For each participating company, this section presents a detailed summary highlighting their core technologies, capabilities, technologies, and services.
MICROFLUIDIC ENCAPSULATION – Controlling Drug Delivery With PLGA
Richard Gray, MA, discusses the use of polymer microparticles for pharmaceutical applications, including specific examples of polylactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA) encapsulation.
SPECIAL FEATURE – Excipients: Formulators Want Excipients for Solubility & Beyond
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin speaks with leading excipient companies to discuss the current role excipients are playing in continuous manufacturing, biopharma formulation, and controlled- and immediate-release delivery.
SPECIAL FEATURE – Improving Bioavailability & Solubility: Chemical & Physical Modification vs. Formulation Development
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin speaks with several leading companies to explore chemical and physical modification versus formulation development, and new technologies and techniques for improving bioavailability and solubility.
MULTIPARTICULATE SYSTEM – Advances in Lipid Multiparticulate Technologies for Controlled Release
Jaspreet Arora, PhD, Samantha Saville, and Brett Waybrant, PhD, focus on a controlled-release LMP formulation to identify optimum annealing conditions and to better understand the annealing mechanism.
SPECIAL FEATURE – Challenging Molecules Drive Developers to Get More Creative With Excipients
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.
LIPID-BASED DELIVERY – Are Lipid-Based Drug Delivery Systems in Your Formulation Toolbox?
Jason M. LePree, RPh, PhD, reviews the causes of poor bioavailability for drugs and provides an introduction to lipid-based drug delivery systems, and how the formulation approach can be used to overcome impediments to good bioavailability of therapeutic actives.
NANOPARTICLES – A Revolution in the Development of Drug Delivery Vehicles
Tim Leaver explains how his company has developed a proprietary technology for the rapid development of nanoparticles and seamless scale-up for clinical studies and commercial production, and how it is transforming the development and manufacturing of a range of nanoparticle formulations from a hit-and-miss affair to a standardized process, accelerating novel nanomedicines from the bench to the clinic.
SPECIAL FEATURE – Wanted: New Excipients to Meet the Demands of a Challenging Industry
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin recently spoke with some of the leading excipient innovators to find out what types of excipients they are developing, the advantages they offer to formulations, and where they see the industry focusing throughout the next few years.
EXCIPIENT UPDATE – Solvent-Less Film Coatings: New Ethylcellulose Grade Enables Rapid Dry Powder Coating
Nick Grasman and Paula Garcia Todd, MS, present ETHOCEL HP as an innovative new product that helps customers increase productivity while still maintaining the advantages of Dow manufactured ETHOCEL, such as tight viscosity, narrow ethoxyl distribution, and reduced fiber content.
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MilliporeSigma Launches Excipient Technology Platform for Viscosity Reduction of Protein-Based Therapeutics
MilliporeSigma has recently launched a new Viscosity Reduction Excipient Platform to reduce the viscosity and help overcome manufacturing and formulation challenges associated with….
ABITEC Corporation & Larodan AB Announce Brand Refresh After Successful Integration of the Two Companies
ABITEC Corporation, an ABF Ingredients company, recently announced in July 2020 the acquisition of Swedish manufacturer and international marketer of state of the art, high-purity research grade lipids, Larodan AB….
Dotmatics to Deliver the Foundation for Croda’s R&D Digital Program: Artificial Intelligence & Data Mining
Dotmatics Ltd, a scientific informatics software and services company that is driving the automation of laboratory data workflows for scientific discovery and innovation research, recently announced it has been selected….
Roquette Boosts Customer Support With New Digital Pharma Marketplace
Roquette recently announced the opening of its new pharma online marketplace, powered by Knowde. The e-commerce platform will provide users….
Evonik Markets New Enteric-Protected Ready-to-Fill Capsules for Fast, High-Performance Drug Development
Evonik recently launched the EUDRACAP platform of easy-to-handle capsules to help the pharmaceutical industry accelerate speed to market for complex oral drug products in early development stages…..