Feature Papers in Pharmaceutical Technology
A topical collection in Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This collection belongs to the section "Pharmaceutical Technology, Manufacturing and Devices".
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Dear Colleagues,
Pharmaceutical technology is the discipline of pharmacy that deals with the process of turning a new chemical entity (NCE) or old drug into a medication to be used safely and effectively by patients. It is also called the science of dosage form design. There are many chemicals with pharmacological properties which need special measures to help them to achieve therapeutically relevant amounts at their sites of action by decreasing the side effects and undesirable effects. The pharmaceutical technology itself is directly linked to the formulation of drugs to their delivery and disposition in the body. Pharmaceutical technology deals with the formulation of a pure drug substance into an appropriate dosage form. To do this, appropriate pharmaceutical technologies have to be used, such as crystallization, freeze drying, dried granulation, and holt-melt granulation; physical pharmacy to improve the chemical stability of drugs; novel functionalities of excipients; materials selection and characterization; pharmaceutical process development; new drug delivery devices intended and appropriate for oral, ocular, parenteral, vaginal, rectal, and topical applications; new concepts to administer drugs in colloidal drug delivery systems; and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Today, most drugs are administered as part of a dosage form. The clinical performance of drugs depends on their form of presentation to the patient. Therefore, the appropriate dosage forms is directly dependent of the processes used to design them. At present, several technologies are able to improve the bioavailability by the process itself. Therefore, these methods are very important and illustrate the importance of factors other than the composition of the dosage forms.
This Topical Collection aims to highlight the latest research activities using pharmaceutical technologies from all stages of the design and the development of a dosage form. We invite researchers to submit original research articles and reviews in this field.
Prof. Dr. Thierry Vandamme
Collection Editor
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