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NASAL DELIVERY - Improving Nasal Drug Delivery With Permeation Enhancing Technology
Stuart Madden, PhD, focuses on the use of alkylsaccharides as absorption enhancers for nasal delivery of a wide range of drug types.
FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT - Impact of Excipients & Manufacturing Process on Solubility-Enhanced Ritonavir Tablet Size & Weight Reduction
Gayatri Khanvilkar, MPharm, Ajit Bhagat, and Tejas Gunjikar, PhD, investigate bulking agents and disintegrants to develop efficacious Rotonavir tablets with improved in vitro release.
DATA STRATEGIES - As We Shift Toward Biologics, We Also Need to Shift Toward Smarter Data Management
Christian Marcazzo explains how adopting a new kind of data strategy might be disruptive to the expectation of how biologics development is carried out — but it may also be transformational.
MARKET LANDSCAPE - The Future of Cancer Care Post-Pandemic: What Doctors, Patients, and the Healthcare Industry at Large Should Expect
Angelos Stergiou, PhD, explains how the COVID-19 pandemic saw failures in the healthcare delivery system not only in general medicine, but also specifically in oncology. At the same time, several opportunities came to light during such a difficult, frightening moment, bringing a number of large- and small-scale innovations forth.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW - Kytosan USA, Inc.: Blazing a Trail in Chitosan Manufacturing in the United States
Dr. Joseph F. Bristow, Chief Technology Officer for Kytosan USA, discusses chitosan and its impact on the pharmaceutical industry, as well as Kytosan USA’s production plans.
GENE EDITING TECHNOLOGY - Harnessing a Cell’s Natural DNA Repair Process to Develop Medicines With Higher Levels of Precision & Durability
Mariana Nacht, PhD, reviews a new gene editing approach that harnesses a cell’s natural DNA repair process, known as homologous recombination, to insert a corrective copy of the gene (or transgene) at a precise spot in a patient’s genome.
INJECTION TECHNOLOGY - Patient Centricity in Insulin Injection: Using Technology to Improve Self-Administration
David T. Novotny discusses how advances in smart technology have opened up new options for people with diabetes and explores how injection technology has made self-administration of insulin easier, and how it will continue to develop into the future.
CDMO INNOVATION - How a Global CDMO Puts Innovation at the Forefront of its Business Strategy
Kai Vogt, Senior Vice President Corporate Development/Legal/Corporate Compliance/IT, Vetter, explains how a global CDMO puts innovation at the forefront of its business strategy.
SPECIAL FEATURE - Analytical Testing Trends in 2022
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin reports on the innovative technologies and techniques that several leading outsourcing providers currently offer for both small and large molecules.
FORMULATION FORUM - Formulation & Process of Lipid Nanoparticles for Delivery of Small Molecules & Biologicals
Jim Huang, PhD, explains how recently, lipid nanoparticles have emerged as a drug delivery system for biologicals, especially for the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in which LNPs play a vital role in transporting mRNA into the target cells.
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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.