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Quotient Sciences featured in Drug Development & Delivery's Solubility Special Feature Report

Dr. Sarah Stevens, former Vice President of Drug Development Sciences at Quotient Sciences, discusses our integrated approach to accelerating the development of poorly soluble compounds in a Drug Development & Delivery Special Feature article, "Improving Bioavailability & Solubility: Each Molecule Is Unique"

 

Solving bioavailability and solubil­ity challenges to support successful drug delivery is an ever-enduring challenge (and opportunity) for phar­maceutical formulation scientists. Along with well-established ap­proaches to improving each, there are many emerging platform technolo­gies, providing options in the toolbox. In many ways, though, availability of such formulation and process technol­ogy approaches does not present the primary barrier to improving universal solubility and bioavailability chal­lenges. Instead, a key challenge is the continued lack of predictive, clinically relevant models to guide formulation selection early enough in the develop­ment process – such that money and time are not unnecessarily expended, and avoidable risks not taken.

“With many examples of mislead­ing nonclinical and in vitro predictabil­ity out there, robust predictive models would afford the ability to understand and adapt for successful clinical out­comes from the outset,” says Dr. Sarah Stevens, Vice President of Drug Development Sciences at Quotient Sciences. “Quotient Sciences embod­ies science-led decision making, therefore not relying simply on poten­tially unreliable predictive models. A combination of unique development approaches provides the most expedi­tious means to improve potential bioavailability and solubility chal­lenges.”

Quotient, she says, deploys technologies such as particle size reduction, lipid-based formulation mechanisms, HME, SDD, etc., but more pertinently, drives early formula­tion selection by cutting through in­dustry silos and integrating across a range of capabilities to accelerate the drug development process.

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