Drug development timelines are shortened by the corporate and clinical strategies of biotech and pharmaceutical companies to achieve proof-of-concept or to rapidly get to the market. For new drug entities entering clinical trials, selecting the right drug product depends on many factors, including the corporate and clinical strategy, and the physiochemical properties of the drug substance. This episode will consider time and cost for developing and compounding or manufacturing the different types of oral drug products dosed in early clinical trials.
The PharmTech team focused on its coverage of AAPS PharmSci 360 this week, conducting interviews with experts on a range of topics including formulation platforms, AI, amorphous solid dispersions, and animal studies.
Nitin Kumar Swarnakar, PhD, global application lab manager at BASF, talks about spray drying for drying amorphous solid dispersions and Raman spectroscopy’s role as a quantitative analytical tool.
Aleksandra Zuraw, senior veterinary pathologist at Charles River, discusses how chain of custody, good laboratory practice, quality control, and validation are applied to digital pathology data used in drug development.