This timely Second Edition reflects the mounting pressure on pharmaceutical companies to accelerate the new drug development and launch process, and the shift from developing small molecules to the growth of biopharmaceuticals. It meets the need for up-to-date and advanced information for drug preformulation and formulation, and addresses the current trends in the continually evolving pharmaceutical industry.

Ideal for practitioners working in the pharmaceutical industry (including R&D scientists, technicians, and managers), as well as undergraduate and postgraduate courses in industrial pharmacy and pharmaceutical technology, Pharmaceutical Preformulation and Formulation, 2nd edition addresses:

• candidate drug selection
• drug discovery and development
• preformulation predictions and drug selections
• product design to commercial dosage form
• biopharmaceutical support in formulation development
• and more

Contents:

1. Introduction and Perspective
2. Aiding Candidate Drug Selection: Introduction and Objectives
3. Preformulation Investigations using Small Amounts of Compound as an Aid to Candidate Drug Selection and Early Development
4. Biopharmaceutical Support in Candidate Drug Selection
5. Early Drug Development: Product Design
6. Preformulation as an Aid to Product Design in Early Drug Development
7. Biopharmaceutical Support in Formulation Development
8. Product Optimization
9. Parenteral Dosage Forms
10. Inhalation Dosage Forms
11. Oral Solid Dosage Forms
12. Ophthalmic Dosage Forms
13. Aqueous Nasal Dosage Forms
14. Topical and Transdermal Delivery

Index

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