Long acting injectables and implants (LAI) are known to improve
patient adherence and treatment outcomes. They reduce costs for the
healthcare system and ensure sustainable sales for pharmaceutical
companies. LAI are usually administered intramuscularly (IM) or
subcutaneously (SC). In this way, the drug is released from its depot
in a controlled manner over a longer period of time (e.g., a few days
to a year). There is a trend toward increasing interest in the
development of long-acting drugs for local administration versus
systemic administration of depot products (i.e., IM or SC injection).
This is leading to finding new ways of administration of the depot
formulation, intra-ocular, intra-articular, pri-tendon etc. Therefore,
it is expected that more drugs based on LAI formulations will enter
the clinical phase in the future. Due to many benefits in adherence,
efficacy, and safety of the treatment up until now around 50 brand
name medicines using different biodegradable long-acting technology
have received FDA approval. Manufacturing of LAI involves many steps
with their unique challenges, which is why pharmaceutical companies
consider them to be complex formulations to develop. Most of the
published papers and books in this field are written by scientists who
never worked in industry and whose knowledge on the topic is limited
to small scale formulation screening. Therefore, this book aims to
address the challenges of the development of biodegradable LAI from an
industrial perspective.
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An Industry View
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783031723025
Publisert
2025
Utgiver
Springer Nature
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok