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Biopharmaceutical Excipient Manufacturing – Current Scenario and Future Trends

Roots Analysis

Therefore, a variety of excipients, which are pharmacologically inert substances themselves, are used to stabilize biologics during the manufacturing process and storage. Additionally, biopharmaceutical excipients act as bulking agents, antioxidants or preservatives.

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Roquette opens pharmaceutical innovation facility in Pennsylvania, US

Pharmaceutical Technology

In the first phase of its training workshops, the Pharmaceutical Innovation Center plans to develop a range of excipients [inactive substances that serve as the vehicle or medium for a drug or other active substance] for controlled release dosage forms, improving their bioavailability, along with formulating orally dispersible and chewable tablets.

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Catalent to purchase Metrics Contract Services from Mayne Pharma

Pharmaceutical Technology

Catale n t has signed an agreement for the acquisition of full-service specialty Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) Metrics Contract Services for $475m from Mayne Pharma. Furthermore, the plant has a manufacturing capacity of more than one billion oral solid dose units annually.

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Nanoparticles: Emerging Stars for Pharmaceutical Industry

Roots Analysis

In fact, it has been observed that around 40% of the pharmaceutical products approved by regulatory organizations exhibit poor bioavailability / solubility. Further, every year, poor bioavailability is one of the prime reasons that leads to failure in obtaining approval authorization.

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PureTech Reveals New CBD Pill to Rival Jazz’s Epidiolex

XTalks

Clinical-stage biotech company PureTech Health has announced it has developed a new oral CBD therapeutic candidate with improved bioavailability and tolerability, which could expand use of the CBD prodrug in a wide range of indications and age groups. Jazz bought out Epidiolex developer GW Pharmaceuticals for the drug in a whopping $7.2

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The New Frontier in Drug Development: Understanding Biologics and Small Molecules

Cloudbyz

Manufacturing Process : Small Molecules: Manufactured through chemical synthesis, small molecule drugs can be consistently reproduced with a high degree of purity and stability. The conditions affecting the living system can influence the final product, making the manufacturing process more sensitive and challenging.

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How PK Modeling Can Inform Sample Size Estimation and Dose Selection for Your Product

Camargo

A failure to demonstrate BE may suggest that the test product should be reformulated, that the manufacturing method should be changed, that additional safety or efficacy data may be needed, or that the study was not properly powered for sample size.