While Big Pharma faces major products going off patent and drug regulators expect new products to have greater product efficacy, drug delivery formats that can enhance compliance, product performance or extend drug lifecycles are the new drivers.
Formulators are looking for technologies that provide controlled, sustained or delayed release and help to target delivery to where it is needed most. Blue sky technologies using miniaturised electronics, microneedles and smart pill are all helping to deliver sensitive drug payloads to previously hostile and inaccessible regions of the body. Many other companies are meeting the challenges of low bioavailability of oral solid drugs, the inconvenience of administering injections or improving dose accuracy and compliance. Even the conventional tablets and capsules market has evolved, achieving fast disintegrating and rapidly acting tablets or films.
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