January 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Hydrocapsules: A New Method for Aqueous Drug Delivery
Ara Manukian and William Toreki, III, PhD, introduce a new encapsulation technology that provides for a unique method of encapsulating a wide range of aqueous-based liquids with a cross-linked polymeric outer shell that can be used to deliver nutrients, vitamins, drugs, vaccines, and other chemical compounds. 

Unlocking the Secrets of the Dry Powder Inhaler Plume

Paul Kippax and David Morton describe the technique of laser diffraction-based particle size analysis for the study of DPI sprays, demonstrating the insight it delivers into formulation and device behavior.

 

5 Drug Delivery Companies You Should Know About

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin examines several lesser-known, but worth knowing, innovators to find out more about their technologies and how they are meeting some unmet needs in the market today.

 

Advancing Delivery of Ophthalmic Therapeutics Through Iontophoresis

Mr. Stephen From discusses how the development, or lack of development, of novel therapeutics for serious eye diseases throughout the past 20 years has focused attention on the need for a convenient, safe, and efficient delivery technology for many existing ocular drugs.

 

Improving Therapeutic Antibodies

Jeff Morhet, MBA, reviews Dynamic Cross Linking (DXL^TM), under development at Innexus Biotechnology, to improve an antibody’s avidity for its target without affecting critical binding or immunogenicity factors.

 

Adhesives Research: Turning Possibilities Into Custom Delivery Platforms

Drug Delivery Executive: Geoff Bennett, President of Adhesives Research, Inc., to learn more about AR’s unique capabilities and his perspective on the drug delivery industry.

 

CIMA: Now More than ODTs

Drug Delivery Executive: Dr. Raj Khankari, General Manager of CIMA and Global Vice President of World Wide Drug Delivery Technologies for Cephalon, provides his insights on the drug delivery business and how his company is poised to maintain and grow its drug delivery technology platforms for its partners.

 

DEPARTMENTS

 

Market News & Trends

 

Business Development

An Inside View of a 2007 Drug Delivery Deal

 

Combination Update

Partnerships: The Key to Combination Product Success

 

Attorney Review

The Obviousness Standard in a Post-KSR World

 

Advanced Delivery Devices

When Developing a Drug Delivery Device, Time is of the Essence

 

Technology Showcase

 

External Delivery

Why Don’t More Business Executives Run for President?

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