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ION EXCHANGE EXCIPIENTS - Tackling Patient Compliance With Oral Drug Formulations Using Ion Exchange Resins
Amie Gehris explains how IERs solve various pharmaceutical formulation issues, including decreasing the bitter taste of many pharmaceutical drugs, improving patient outcomes by supporting compliance to treatment regimens, and providing new revenue streams for pharmaceutical companies.
DELIVERY DEVICES - Growing Connected Market Set to Elevate Healthcare Outcomes
Michael Earl examines what the connected device market will look to achieve in the coming years and how it is likely to drive improved adherence to treatments and improve overall healthcare outcomes.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW - Novadip Biosciences: Developing a New Class of Regenerative Tissue Products to Accelerate Healing of Critical Size Bone Defects, Trauma & Spinal Problems
Denis Dufrane, MD, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, and Founder of Novadip Biosciences, discusses his company’s innovative approach to tissue regeneration technology.
DRUG-ELUTING SYSTEMS - Introducing Drugs to Silicone & Controlling Elution Rates
Zach Fletcher explains how an experienced manufacturing partner can help therapy developers quickly identify solutions and develop manufacturing and formulation methods for use in many applications.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW - Ascendia Pharmaceuticals: Innovative Solutions to Challenging Problems
Jim Huang, PhD, CEO and Founder of Ascendia Pharmaceuticals, discusses how his company expanded its people, capabilities, and facilities to meet and exceed customer expectations from early to late-state development and how this investment allows Ascendia to continue be an expert in sophisticated formulations, as well as cGMP sterile and non-sterile clinical trial and commercial manufacturing.
VACCINE TECHNOLOGY - Solving the Challenges & Introducing New Strategies for Influenza & COVID-19 Protection
Paul Radspinner, MBA, and Pamuk Bilsel, PhD, say with a combination vaccination strategy, the biopharma industry could truly solve the efficacy, durability, and drift problems of current influenza and COVID-19 vaccines.
(e-book) The Oral Dosage Drug Delivery Market 2023
Place Your Oral Formulation In Experienced Hands Download: The Oral Dosage Drug Delivery Market. Thank you for your interest in Pii and our eBook on…
INFLAMMASOME INHIBITORS - 21st Century Miracle Drugs: Spotlight on Clinical NLRP3 Inflammasome Inhibitors
Bryan Oronsky, PhD, says traditionally, pharmaceutical development is based on the “magic bullet” concept of “one drug, one target, one disease.” However, with the growing realization that chronic inflammation lies at the center of many, if not all, diseases, it is possible to envision inflammasome inhibitors, which reduce or prevent inflammation, as near-universal treatment panaceas.
SPECIAL FEATURE - Excipients: Their Future Could Lie in Generics
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin highlights the innovative work being done by several leading companies and exemplifies the importance of excipients to the future of drug development.
FORMULATION FORUM - Tackling Challenging Molecules by Spray Drying: Making the Impossible Possible
Jim Huang, PhD, and Shaukat Ali, PhD, focus on spray drying technology with special reference to polymers and solvents selection, processing conditions, and the challenges with downstream manufacturing, stability, and degradation of APIs in oral dosages.
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Unicycive Therapeutics Announces Orphan Drug Designation Granted for UNI-494 for the Prevention of Delayed Graft Function in Kidney Transplant Patients
Unicycive Therapeutics, Inc. recently announced the US FDA has granted orphan drug designation (ODD) to UNI-494 for the prevention of Delayed Graft Function (DGF) in kidney….
2019 Analytical Testing in Drug Development eBook - Regulations Help Propel Testing Market
This e-Book showcases the various types of services that leading testing companies offer and how they are helping industry comply with regulations to get their products approved and commercialized.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW - Oasmia Pharmaceutical: Commercializing Technologies While Pursuing the US Market
Julian Aleksov, Executive Chairman of Oasmia Pharmaceutical, discusses his company’s efforts to enter the US market, its strategy to increase commercial adoption, and why it believes its underlying drug delivery system technology is significant not only within the oncology sector, but the entire pharmaceutical industry.
LIPOPHILIC SALTS - Opportunities & Applications in Oral Drug Delivery
Hywel Williams, PhD, Annabel Igonin, PhD, David Vodak, PhD, and Hassan Benameur, PhD, believe lipophilic salts are being explored in a number of different areas and one interesting application is their potential to boost API loading in lipid formulations.