Excipients

Pharmaceutical excipients, which can be functional or inactive ingredients, work to enhance the medically relevant properties of the API. When used to promote ingredient qualities, excipients can be an asset for formulators to increase stability, bulk up the formulation, or enhance the therapeutic effects of the API. Below you can explore helpful resources including editorial coverage and webinars related to pharmaceutical excipients.

  • An Interview with Scott Bone – Head of Formulation and Process Science, Bend Bioscience

    The industry must adopt a science-driven, data-informed development strategy. A foundational understanding of the active pharmaceutical ingredient’s (API) physicochemical properties, the matrix characteristics, and the drug’s pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) profiles is essential. Leveraging these insights early in development ... read more

  • Pharmaceutical P.I.N. Points: Patent Innovation News

    The purpose of this column is to highlight and summarize recent key patents in the pharmaceutical arena issued by the US Patent Office in March 2025. read more

  • Integrated Multi-Omic Data: Powering Precision Medicine

    Precision medicine is poised to transform medicine as we’ve known it, from the earliest R&D efforts by drug developers all the way to patient assessment and physician prescribing. In fact, it is projected that the precision medicine market will reach into the hundreds of billions of dollars in the coming years. But getting there presents some of ... read more

  • The Critical Role of Diagnostics in Antimicrobial Stewardship

    Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a pressing global health challenge. While much of the discussion is focused on future implications, resistant infections are already having a profound impact. In 2019, bacterial AMR was directly responsible for an estimated 1.27 million deaths worldwide - more than HIV/AIDs or malaria.. The actions we take today ... read more

  • Otic Drug Delivery Systems: An Overview

    Humans have five basic senses – sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste and there is a sensory organ associated with each. Thus, hearing is one of vital senses and the ear is a vital sensory organ. read more

  • COVID-19 Five Years Later: The Impact on Drug Discovery

    Five years ago, COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, marking the official onset of a healthcare crisis that has claimed more than seven million lives and whose impact continues to resonate today. Initial containment efforts for the evasive and evolving SARS-CoV-2 virus required unprecedented collaboration between nations, healthcare agencies, ... read more
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