Have a look at the next interesting webinars!

In the next weeks, several very interesting webinars for the excipient community are scheduled. Here, we made a short overview and explanation for some of them:

Our webinars:

ZoomLab™: Digitally guiding dosage form and formulation for improved solubility

Tuesday, 8 June – 09:00 AM EST / 03:00 PM CET

Poorly soluble drugs for oral administration present unique formulation challenges, particularly during early development. Various formulation approaches are available, and several aspects must be evaluated in order to identify which choice is most suitable for a specific drug.

BASF has developed ZoomLab™, a science-based formulation tool available online 24/7, guiding formulators in the selection of an ideal dosage form and a suitable starting drug formulation.

Join this webinar to learn from BASF experts on how ZoomLab™ can support your solubility challenges.

3 Key Learning Objectives:

Learn, through a guided case study, how to explore whether a solid dispersion or lipid-based dosage form would be most likely to successfully solubilize your API
Understand how to easily calculate API solubility parameters and learn about their application in formulation development
Explore ZoomLab’s Excipient Database for ideal matching parameters to your processing and formulation needs

Selected partner webinars:

Multiparticulates – modern oral drug products for our society; Part 6: DoE case studies in QbD development

Thursday, 27 May – 03:00 PM CEST

In this webinar Norbert Pöllinger will present a number of case studies showing how the pharmaceutical quality and processing times and cost of multiparticulate manufacturing processes can be optimized. DoE’s are an important tool for product and process development according to the QbD concept.

The Design Space is defined based on the outcome of DoE studies. Moreover, a close look is taken at in vitro dissolution test methods applied – and how individual product quality must be considered when drug release testing method is defined.

New powder flow characterization techniques for DPI applications

Thursday, 10 June – 09:00 AM EST / 03:00 PM CET

Kerry and Granutools join forces to present their recent advances in powder characterization for Dry Powder Inhalers (DPI) applications. In DPI applications, the excipient physical properties and interfacial forces like electrostatics may affect the blend uniformity and drug release of the DPI formulation. It is important that these characteristics are controlled during manufacture and storage of the excipient to solve some of the main challenges in DPI development.

Why should I attend?

Learn how information gathered from new powder characterization techniques can help improving excipients for DPI applications
Understand the importance of the electrostatic properties for the drug release in DPI

When Coating runs smoothly: Enhance your Coating Process with a new Particle designed PVA

Thursday, 20 May – 04:00 PM CEST

Tablet coating simplified. Finding the perfect coating for your formulation can be challenging. A particle engineered polyvinyl alcohol helps you to optimize your process while maintaining full flexibility in designing the right coating formulation at the right time.

In this webinar, you will learn:

How to create your coating formulation by utilizing a broad excipient toolbox
Potential advantages of PVA as a stable moisture and oxygen barrier to protect challenging drug substances
Creating the perfect surface finishing
How to utilize novel analytical technologies to boost your formulation development

Detailed description:

In film coating applications water soluble polymers like polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) take a unique position. PVA can be used in immediate release coatings and provides an exceptional moisture and oxygen barrier. A dedicated particle design allows rapid dissolving times and due to the low viscosities of PVA solutions high solid contents can be obtained leading to a high process efficacy.

The webinar will cover coating formulation development as well as novel technologies for characterization of coated tablets that can easily be implemented during production. Optical coherence technology (OCT) and laser scanning microscopy (LSM) can be valuable tools to assess the coating quality.