Pharmaceutical Preformulation and Formulation covers every stage of drug development, from candidate drug selection to commercial formulation. It provides practical reference and pragmatic guide on what studies need to be undertaken, for what reasons, and at what key stages of the drug development process. Features:

• Provides early preformulation/formulation and biopharmaceutical information to aid in selection of the most suitable compound for development
• Covers the how to predict potential problems for further formulation development
• Explains the best use of drug substance for preformulation studies to aid candidate drug seletcion
• Details the generation of appropriate preformulation/formulation data to characterize the candidate drug and aid product design and development
• Contains instrumental techniques that use minimal amounts of drug substance to gain useful information

Contents Include

1. Introduction & Perspective
2. Aiding Candidate Drug Selection
3. Preformulation Predictions from Small Amounts of Compound as an Aid to Candidate Selection
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 Optimisation
9. Parenteral Dosage Forms
10. Inhalation Dosage Forms
11. Oral Solid Dosage Forms
12. Ophthalmic Dosage Forms
13. Aqueous Nasal Dosage Forms
14. Transdermal and Topical Delivery

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