Dropwise additive manufacturing of pharmaceutical products for amorphous and self emulsifying drug delivery systems

Publication date: 30 May 2017 Source:International Journal of Pharmaceutics, Volume 524, Issues 1–2 Author(s): Elçin Içten, Hitesh S. Purohit, Chelsey Wallace, Arun Giridhar, Lynne S. Taylor, Zoltan K. Nagy, Gintaras V. Reklaitis The improvements in healthcare systems and the advent of the precision medicine initiative have created the need to develop more innovative manufacturing methods for the delivery and production of individualized dosing and personalized treatments. In accordance with the changes observed in healthcare systems towards more innovative therapies, this paper presents dropwise additive manufacturing of pharmaceutical products (DAMPP) for small scale, distributed manufacturing of individualized dosing as an alternative to conventional manufacturing methods A dropwise additive manufacturing process for amorphous and self-emulsifying drug delivery systems is reported, which utilizes drop-on-demand printing technology for automated and controlled deposition of melt-based formulations onto inert tablets. The advantages of drop on demand technology include reproducible production of droplets with adjustable sizing and high placement accuracy, which enable production of individualized dosing even for low dose and high potency drugs. Flexible use of different formulations, such as lipid-based formulations, allows enhancement of the solubility of poorly water soluble and highly lipophilic drugs with DAMPP. Here, DAMPP is used to produce solid oral dosa...
Source: International Journal of Pharmaceutics - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research