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Metrics Offers New Proprietary Technology to Improve Taste, Stability & Deliver SR Characteristics
Metrics Inc. now offers proprietary technology to mask the taste of tablets. The company’s innovative Cleantaste technology enables polymer coating of individual drug crystals to…
FDA Makes Decision on Abuse-Deterrent Formulations of Oxycontin Drug Products
Grünenthal recently announced it is pleased with the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) recent decisions regarding abuse-deterrent formulations (ADF) and prescription opioids. In its…
mPhase Technologies to Pursue Licensing Opportunities for Delivery System
mPhase Technologies, Inc. recently announced that it is pursuing licensing opportunities for its Smart Drug Delivery System. mPhase recently filed a United States Letter Patent…
Starpharma Granted Lucrative Drug Delivery Patents
Starpharma Holdings Ltd recently announced it has been granted three new patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which strengthen and expand…
Xenon Exclusively Licenses Merck Compounds
Xenon recently announced that Merck, through an affiliate, has exercised its option to exclusively license small molecule compounds for a novel target for the potential…
Carticept Medical Wins 510(k) Clearance
Carticept Medical, Inc. recently announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the US FDA for its enhanced Navigator Delivery System (DS), the first and only…
Model-Independent Platform Accurately Predicts Drugs’ Stable States to Guide Reformulation for Enhanced Bioavailability
BEND, OR-- Agere Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading oral bioavailability contract research and manufacturing organization (CRO/CMO), announced today that it has enhanced the Agere drug delivery…
The New Mega Trends That Will Shape a Future Britain
In the future, 81% of people in the UK will be living in urban areas, there will be 200 million connected devices, and one in…
Unilife Develops Customized Device to Enhance Patient Self-Injection of Biologics
Unilife Corporation recently announced the development of the Unifill Assure, a customized device from its Unifill platform of ready-to-fill (prefilled) syringes that is designed to…
nSpire Health Announces Next-Generation Respiratory Clinical Trial eDiary
nSpire Health Inc. recently announced the introduction of PROLogic(TM), its latest eDiary for respiratory clinical trials. Based on the PiKoLogic(TM) ePRO device platform, PROLogic provides…
BD Announces FDA 510(k) Clearance & Commercial Launch
BD Medical, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) recently announced the commercial launch of a new passive needle guard technology, BD UltraSafe PLUS.…
Catalent Biologics Expands Into ADCs Through Exclusive License
Catalent Pharma Solutions recently announced it has acquired an exclusive license to market Redwood Bioscience's proprietary SMARTag precision protein-chemical engineering technology for the development of…
Cyclica & Dalton Announce Drug Development Collaboration
Cyclica and Dalton recently announced a collaboration agreement to identify and develop new drug candidates applying advanced computational molecular design to medicinal chemistry and drug…
GSK & A*STAR to Develop New Medicines for Emerging Markets
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and A*STAR's Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES) have signed a 5-year strategic agreement to develop new evidence-based formulations (EBFs) specifically for…
Lipid Therapeutics Successfully Files US IND
Lipid Therapeutics recently announced it has successfully filed its first US IND for its lead product LT-02 and is now in a position to proceed…
Unilife Signs Long-Term Customization & Commercial Supply Agreement; $110-Million Potential
Unilife Corporation recently announced the signing of a Customization and Commercial Supply Agreement with a US pharmaceutical company for the EZMixTM dual-chamber syringe. Unilife will…
US Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Market Forecast to Grow Significantly Through 2016
Research activities in healthcare have changed significantly in recent years. There has been a paradigm shift away from blockbusters drugs to a more personalized medicine…
Vetter's New Commercial Filling Line Ready for cGMP Filling
Vetter recently announced that its new award-winning filling line at the company's Ravensburg Vetter South facility is fully validated and ready for cGMP filling, after…
Aragen Bioscience & Innovent Biologics Announce Collaboration for Biotherapeutic Product Development
Aragen Bioscience, Inc. and Innovent Biologics, Inc. have initiated a collaboration for the development of manufacturing cell lines for biotherapeutic product development. Under the terms…
Foster Expands Nano-Reinforced Polymer Product Range for Medical Devices
Foster Corporation now offers nano-reinforced composites for minimally invasive devices, such as catheters, with reinforcement loadings up to 30% by weight. Nano-reinforced compounds with high…
