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BioNxt signs agreement to acquire novel solid oral drug dosage tech

"This coating system could significantly improve oral tablet and oral capsule drug delivery with more precise drug release and predictable dosing."

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Stablepharma closes series A funding round to progress fridge-free vaccines and mRNA/LNP stabilisation technologies

Stablepharma, the fridge-free vaccine company closed their series A funding round having secured £5.2 million with lead investors Hamilton Portfoli...

Experience is everything: excipients and their role in enhancing patient-centricity

It’s a hard pill to swallow, but medication adherence is one of the toughest challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry today, writes Arnaud Ver...

Novartis and MMV move to Phase III study to treat uncomplicated malaria

As the world faces emerging resistance to current malaria treatments, new medicines are needed to continue the fight toward elimination

DFE Pharma opens Indian OSD-focused pharma support centre

The company has planned to provide services that are mainly focus on oral solid dosage (OSD) forms and comprise a range of pre-registration work i...

Outsourcing your highly potent oncology drug product

Scientific progress has transformed the research and discovery (R&D) of new therapies and the treatment of cancer during the past decade, reports R...

Manufacturing Chemist LIVE 2022 in review (part I)

Taking a front row seat during the two-day pharmaceutical conference in Birmingham, UK, Dr Kevin Robinson reports on what’s new, emerging and excit...

Iconovo receives $883,800 grant to develop inhaled therapies with ICOone Nasal for the next pandemic

The aim of the project is to develop a nasal inhaler that can be rapidly upscaled for industrial manufacturing to produce millions of inhalers at t...

DFE Pharma expands its inhalation portfolio with the launch of Lactohale 400

Being a leader in dry powder inhalation, DFE Pharma further expands its broad excipient portfolio of inhalation grade lactose

What does 2023 hold for oral solid dosage forms?

Recipharm’s Uwe Hanenberg, Head of Product Development, Oral Solid Dose, and Maria Lundin-Johnson, Head of Formulation Development, explore the lat...

Influence of material and capsule filling process on DPI aerosolisation performance

The effect of capsule filling parameters on emitted dose and fine particle fraction by a DPI was investigated using a benchtop capsule filling devi...

N4 Pharma highlights potential of Nuvec as gene therapy delivery platform

A preclinical in vivo study found that Nuvec – N4 Pharma’s novel silica-based nanoparticle – formulated with TNF-α pDNA oncotherapy, suppressed tum...

Increasing patient compliance with ion exchange excipient taste masking

With a significant number of individuals reporting that they find it difficult to swallow tablets or capsules, and more people admitting to not tak...

Catalent adds encapsulation suites at Missouri facility

The project includes the installation of a Gerteis roller compactor alongside stationary bin blenders, a capsule weight sorter, and a Syntegon high...

Orodispersibles and minitablets: optimising patient compliance by improving the sensory properties with isomalt

Orally dispersible minitablets are a drug dosage form that can help to improve patient compliance among children and others who have difficulty swa...