Drug development is shifting away from the traditional, legacy small-molecule pipelines and focusing on increasingly complex products that require greater technical acumen and specialized equipment, reveals Mark DaFonseca, Chief Commercial Officer at Lifecore. “The standard highly soluble, stable, small molecule days have been over for a while now and the progress of the biological based therapies continues to grow every year,” he says. “As a CDMO, we need to consider the physicochemical properties of the molecules, their stability, their solubility, or lack thereof, and how you can formulate them to achieve the desired target product profile.”
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As the drug development pipeline shifts toward complex biologics, traditional oral or frequent dosing regimens are being replaced by long-acting formulations, reveals David Westberg from Nanexa.
According to Sven Lee from Bionova, the era of predictable, plug-and-play bioprocessing platforms is coming to an end as novel advanced pipelines now require bespoke, early-stage intervention to ensure molecular quality.
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