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EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW – ICON: Transforming Clinical Trials in a Rapidly Shifting Landscape
Ute Berger, MD, President, Development & Commercialization Solutions at ICON plc, discusses how with the acquisition of PRA in 2021, it has enhanced its value proposition and how it is transforming clinical trials in a rapidly shifting landscape.
SPECIAL FEATURE – Solubility & Bioavailability: Difficult Beasts to Tame
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin highlights the services many of these outsourced providers offer to enhance solubility and bioavailability and get their clients’ projects to market faster and cost effectively – while maintaining critical quality attributes.
DELIVERY TECHNOLOGY – NeuroDirect™ Ketamine: Novel, Non-Systemic Topical Therapy for PTSD & Associated Intractable Depression
Ronald Aung-Din, MD, and Chantelle G. Martin, MBChB, present scientific data demonstrating how with NeuroDirect technology, the benefits of psychedelic compounds may be achieved without concern for their potential systemic effects.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW – Purple Biotech Ltd.: Developing First-In-Class Oncology Therapies
Gil Efron, Chief Executive Officer of Purple Biotech, discusses the company’s focus on identifying and developing promising molecules that may offer first-in-class approaches to treating devastating cancers with large unmet medical needs.
FORMULATION FORUM – Changing the Landscape of Nanoparticles for Long-Acting Injectable Drugs
Jim Huang, PhD, and Shaukat Ali, PhD, say recently, there has been continued interest in parenteral NPs with sustained-release characteristics as more drugs discovered are poorly soluble and less bioavailable, and these challenges have led to enormous opportunities and launch of many drug products to market.
MARKET TRENDS – Emerging Trends in Injectable Drug Formulation & Delivery
Martin Gonzalez, PhD, details current trends in sterile injectable formulations and delivery devices and highlights the challenges pharma and its CDMO partners are facing bringing emerging parenteral breakthroughs to patients.
SUSTAINABILITY – Is the Pharmaceutical Industry Preparing Effectively for a Greener Future?
Michael Earl reviews 25 of the biggest pharma companies reporting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores to see how the industry is performing.
AUTOMATED SOLUTIONS – Automation & Shared Knowledge Pave the Way Into the Future
Luca Valeggia says by no means is automation a novel concept for most research labs, but its swift advancement and expansion into new fields such as synthetic biology have shown us that we are only witnessing the start of what is possible.
EXTRACTABLES & LEACHABLES – Detecting the Unknown With Extractables & Leachables Analysis
Derek Wood, Xiaochun Yu, PhD, and Aaron Lamb review how a new generation of extraction, identification, and quantification tools, now recognized as approved methods by regulatory bodies, are changing the E&L testing landscape.
CLINICAL TRIALS – New Technology & the Global COVID Pandemic Drive the Need for More Decentralized Trials
Suhas Gudihal, MS, MBA, explains how the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the ongoing shift to remote clinical trial monitoring, and remote site access and monitoring platforms are now an essential element of the clinical trial process and a vital connection between the sponsor, CRO, and research site.
EXCLUSIVE ONLINE CONTENT
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.