Recent Advances in Physicochemical Stability of Drugs
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Biopharmaceutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2023) | Viewed by 7915
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pharmaceutical technology; physicochemical stability studies; medical devices; drug packaging; content–container interactions; leachables; drug sorption
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Physicochemical stability studies are a key step in validating the quality, safety, and efficacy of medications, whether in the pharmaceutical laboratories or in hospitals (pharmaceutical preparations). These studies can be complex and/or time-consuming, for example for biomedicines such as monoclonal antibodies. The analyses used to verify the physicochemical stability of medications require the development and implementation of effective and appropriate techniques. In addition, certain active ingredients or excipients used in the formulation of medications may interact with packaging articles and/or medical administration devices. These container–content interactions (adsorption, absorption, permeation, release) are still little studied, despite the fact that they can, in certain cases, have a profound impact on the stability of the medications.
This Special Issue is, therefore, dedicated to the following topics:
- Physicochemical stability studies of drugs with an innovative aspect to its active ingredient, its formulation, or its galenic form;
- Content–container interaction studies (on methodological and practical aspects) and mechanistic studies;
- Innovative analytical techniques used to study physicochemical instabilities, as well as the interactions at the material–drug interface;
- Simulation models on the prediction of the physicochemical instability of an active ingredient or an excipient, and their interactions with biomaterials or materials for pharmaceutical use.
Prof. Dr. Valérie Sautou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- physicochemical stability
- content-container interactions
- in silico modelling
- predictive models
- analytical technology
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