Formulation Development
Relief Therapeutics & NeuroRx Expand Clinical Trial of COVID-19 Drug
Relief Therapeutics and its US partner, NeuroRx, Inc. recently announced that the Phase 2/3 clinical trial evaluating RLF-100 as a treatment for critical COVID-19 with…
Vectura Signs License & Development Agreement With Aerami Therapeutics
Vectura Group plc recently announced the signing of a global license and development agreement with Aerami Therapeutics Inc. for inhaled….
Ovid Therapeutics Announces Strategic Research Collaboration Focused on Accelerating the Development of New Treatments for Rare Neurological Diseases
Ovid Therapeutics Inc. recently announced a strategic research collaboration with Columbia University Irving Medical Center researchers to advance genetic based therapies for……
CURE Announces Exercise of Warrants; Obtains Valuable Proprietary Formulation & Dosage Technology
CURE Pharmaceutical Holding Corp recently announced it strengthened its balance sheet with the receipt of $1.4 million in cash from the exercise of warrants to…
Cresset & Inocardia to Develop In Silico Cardiac Safety Assay for Drug Candidate Screening
Cressey Discovery Services and Inocardia recently announced a 1-year collaboration to develop improved computational methods for cardiac safety assessment. This collaboration also includes the University…
Rezolute Receives Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for Phase 2b Candidate
Rezolute, Inc. recently announced the company has received rare pediatric disease designation (RPD) from the US FDA for RZ358, a potential treatment for congenital hyperinsulinism…
Precision BioSciences Announces Dosing of First Patient in Phase 1/2a Clinical Trial
Precision BioSciences, Inc. recently announced that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase 1/2a clinical trial of PBCAR269A, its third allogeneic chimeric antigen…
Arch Biopartners Submits IND Application to the FDA for Metablok (LSALT Peptide)
Arch Biopartners Inc. recently announced it has submitted an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application to the US FDA for its lead drug Metablok (LSALT peptide)…
THERAPEUTIC FOCUS - The Future of Treating Alzheimer’s Disease: Aducanumab & Beyond
Hermann Russ, MD, PhD, and Alexander Gebauer, MD, PhD, believe the times when amyloid beta as a drug target have been dubbed a dead horse in the race for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease are now over.
SPECIAL FEATURE - Outsourcing Formulation Development & Manufacturing: Specialized Capabilities for Small & Large Molecules
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin interviews key players in the CDMO market who present case studies about how they are helping pharmaceutical and biopharma companies overcome a variety of formulation and manufacturing challenges.
PFS MANUFACTURING - Prefilled Syringes & Biologics: The Perfect Partnership of Medicine & Delivery
Anish Parikh charts the twin rise of biologics and PFS, outlines some of the common challenges associated with filling and dispensing, and discusses how a patient-centric partnership approach can help biopharmaceutical companies shorten the development pathway and ensure a reliable supply of safe, effective medicines for the people who need them.
GENE THERAPY - The Role Viral Vectors Play in Current Gene Therapy Development
Dieter Lingelbach, MBA, discusses the history and science of viral vectors, their current applications, and why they are a vital component in contemporary gene therapy development.
FORMULATION FORUM - Application of Captisol® Technology to Enable the Formulation of Remdesivir in Treating COVID-19
James Pipkin, PhD, Vince Antle, PhD, and Rebecca Garcia-Fandiño, PhD, explain why more Captisol® than ever is required to meet Gilead’s bold goals of making remdesivir available to COVID-19 patients in the US and to hundreds of countries around the world.
FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT - Formulating Immediate-Release Tablets for Poorly Soluble Drugs
Gayatri Khanvilkar, MPharm, Ajit Bhagat, Sangmesh Torne, PhD, Tejas Gunjikar, PhD, and Amina Faham, PhD, present a case study showing that previously unviable APIs can be successfully processed with the right methods, which should give hope to formulators facing similar difficulties.
CHIMERIC COMPOUNDS - “Dopastatins”: One Molecule Targeting Two Receptors for the Treatment of Pituitary Tumors
Heather Halem, PhD, and Michael D. Culler, PhD, believe this novel class of compounds represents a potential treatment for neuroendocrine tumors that are vulnerable to the synergistic dual activation of somatostatin and dopamine receptors.
NEXT-GENERATION TUMOR TARGETING - Leveraging the Tumor Microenvironment to Change the Standard of Care
Vishwas Paralkar, PhD, highlights a unique platform technology that represents the first technology that has successfully been used to target cancer drugs to tumor cells in animal models, while sparing healthy tissue.
FORMULATION FORUM - Rational Design of Oral Nanosuspensions for Insoluble Drugs
Jim Huang, PhD, explains how nanosuspensions are an important class of pharmaceutical dosage forms, particularly for pharmaceutical compounds with solubility and bioavailability challenges.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW - Adare Pharmaceuticals: A Virtual Acquisition is Possible
Ajay Damani, VP of Pharmaceutical Technologies Business Unit, Adare, and Maria Flynn, President and CEO, Orbis, discuss how both companies will benefit from the acquisition, future product development, and the challenges of a virtual acquisition.
GLOBAL REPORT - 2019 Global Drug Delivery & Formulation Report: Part 4, The Drug Delivery and Formulation Pipeline
In part 4 of this 4-part series, PharmaCircle, in collaboration with Drug Development & Delivery, analyzes the pipeline with an emphasis on clinical-stage products for which there is more product-related information.
Seelos Therapeutics Announces Initiation of Preclinical Study of SLS-004 in Parkinson’s Disease
Seelos Therapeutics, Inc. recently announced the initiation of a preclinical study of SLS-004 in Parkinson’s disease (PD) through an all-in-one lentiviral vector targeting the synuclein…
