THEME: "Current and Emerging Trends in the Field of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery Research"
Pharmaceutical drug product formulation is at the center of Particle Sciences. Industry-wide, delivery of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) has taken core stage along with the API's themselves. Concentrated initially on problematic latest chemical entities (NCEs), delivery systems are now the go-to approach for both NCE commercialization and the refinement and repurposing of existing APIs. Solution formulations that are applied for injectable dosage forms generally have fewer inactive ingredients—such as water, cosolvents, buffering agents, and pH-adjusting agents. As a result, they are much simpler to formulate collate to some of the semisolid formulations used for topical administration.