Cynthia A. Challener

Automation technologies provide real potential to improve responsiveness and decision-making in drug development.

Automation, miniaturization, and new software algorithms are improving throughput and accuracy.

Sustainability of small-molecule API manufacturing ensures continued success.

The best strategy is to use a combination of complementary methods.

Insights into molecular behaviors and predictive capabilities are bringing numerous benefits.

A holistic approach to automation can provide benefits at all stages of development and manufacturing.

Platform processes and effective risk assessments help overcome time and cost challenges.

Weighing development costs/resources and performance benefits is essential.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning can help overcome poor solubility and bioavailability.

The use of appropriate taste-masking and appearance technologies can facilitate patient compliance.

Developing freeze-drying processes requires patience and deep product and process understanding.

Advanced oral dosage forms allow for modulation of controlled- and sustained-release profiles.

Activation and expansion are essential for success in both autologous and allogeneic therapies.

Continuous manufacturing and a quality-by-design development approach are a natural fit.

Buffers, stabilizers, and cryoprotectants play major roles in cell therapy formulations.

Matching excipients to API properties is essential.

Predictive modeling facilitates the identification of coformers, cocrystal components, and complexing agents.

Sustainability advances are being made, but more investment is needed.

Coprocessed excipients save time and cost while improving performance in a widening array of dosage forms.

The biggest hurdle is developing palatable formulations that are efficacious and patient friendly.

Sample dilution, sensitivity, excipient interference, and containment are key issues that must be addressed.

Nanotech-based delivery technologies are receiving significant attention.

Process control is essential for using continuous hot-melt extrusion to enhance solubility.

Lipids aren’t the only important ingredients influencing stability and in vivo performance.

Unique solutions are required to protect inherently unstable messenger RNA.

Impurities and batch-to-batch variability present the biggest challenges.

Lipids aren’t the only important ingredients influencing stability and in vivo performance.

Key challenges posed to autologous and allogeneic treatments could be resolved by in-vivo CAR-T gene therapies.

Topical eye treatments can be beneficial for patients with a growing array of eye diseases, but only if taken appropriately.

In vivo CAR-T gene therapies could resolve challenges faced by autologous and allogeneic treatments.