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Gamble JF, Al-Obaidi H. Past, Current, and Future: Application of Image Analysis in Small Molecule Pharmaceutical Development. J Pharm Sci 2024; 113:3012-3027. [PMID: 39153662 DOI: 10.1016/j.xphs.2024.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2024] [Revised: 08/09/2024] [Accepted: 08/09/2024] [Indexed: 08/19/2024]
Abstract
The often-perceived limitations of image analysis have for many years impeded the widespread application of such systems as first line characterisation tools. Image analysis has, however, undergone a notable resurgence in the pharmaceutical industry fuelled by developments system capabilities and the desire of scientists to characterize the morphological nature of their particles more adequately. The importance of particle shape as well as size is now widely acknowledged. With the increasing use of modelling and simulations, and ongoing developments though the integration of machine learning and artificial intelligence, the utility of image analysis is increasing significantly driven by the richness of the data obtained. Such datasets provide means to circumvent the requirement to rely on less informative descriptors and enable the move towards the use of whole distributions. Combining the improved particle size and shape measurement and description with advances in modelling and simulations is enabling improved means to elucidate the link between particle and bulk powder properties. In addition to improved capabilities to describe input materials, approaches to characterize single components within multicomponent systems are providing scientists means to understand how their material may change during manufacture thus providing a means to link the behaviour of final dosage forms with the particle properties at the point of action. The aim is to provide an overview of image analysis and update readers with innovations and capabilities to other methods in the small molecule arena. We will also describe the use of AI for the improved analysis using image analysis.
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- John F Gamble
- Bristol Myers Squibb, Reeds Lane, Moreton, Wirral, CH46 1QW, UK; Department of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AH, UK.
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AH, UK
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Leane M, Pitt K, Reynolds G, Tantuccio A, Moreton C, Crean A, Kleinebudde P, Carlin B, Gamble J, Gamlen M, Stone E, Kuentz M, Gururajan B, Khimyak YZ, Van Snick B, Andersen S, Misic Z, Peter S, Sheehan S. Ten years of the manufacturing classification system: a review of literature applications and an extension of the framework to continuous manufacture. Pharm Dev Technol 2024; 29:395-414. [PMID: 38618690 DOI: 10.1080/10837450.2024.2342953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2024] [Accepted: 04/10/2024] [Indexed: 04/16/2024]
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The MCS initiative was first introduced in 2013. Since then, two MCS papers have been published: the first proposing a structured approach to consider the impact of drug substance physical properties on manufacturability and the second outlining real world examples of MCS principles. By 2023, both publications had been extensively cited by over 240 publications. This article firstly reviews this citing work and considers how the MCS concepts have been received and are being applied. Secondly, we will extend the MCS framework to continuous manufacture. The review structure follows the flow of drug product development focussing first on optimisation of API properties. The exploitation of links between API particle properties and manufacturability using large datasets seems particularly promising. Subsequently, applications of the MCS for formulation design include a detailed look at the impact of percolation threshold, the role of excipients and how other classification systems can be of assistance. The final review section focusses on manufacturing process development, covering the impact of strain rate sensitivity and modelling applications. The second part of the paper focuses on continuous processing proposing a parallel MCS framework alongside the existing batch manufacturing guidance. Specifically, we propose that continuous direct compression can accommodate a wider range of API properties compared to its batch equivalent.
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- Michael Leane
- Drug Product Development, Bristol Myers Squibb, Moreton, UK
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- Leicester School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
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- Oral Product Development, Pharmaceutical Technology & Development, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, UK
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- Technology Intensification, Hovione LLC, East Windsor, New Jersey, USA
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- SSPC, the SFI Centre for Pharmaceutical Research, School of Pharmacy, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Owner, Carlin Pharma Consulting, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, USA
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- Drug Product Development, Bristol Myers Squibb, Moreton, UK
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- Chief Scientific Officer, Gamlen Tableting Ltd, Heanor, UK
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- Consultant, Stonepharma Ltd. ATIC, Loughborough, UK
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- Institute for Pharma Technology, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, School of Life Sciences FHNW, Muttenz, Switzerland
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- Pharmaceutical Development, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
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- School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK
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- Oral Solids Development, Drug Product Development, JnJ Innovative Medicine, Beerse, Belgium
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- Oral Solids Development, Drug Product Development, JnJ Innovative Medicine, Beerse, Belgium
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- Innovation Research and Development, dsm-firmenich, Kaiseraugst, Switzerland
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- Research and Development Division, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Basel, Switzerland
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- External Development and Manufacturing, Alkermes Pharma Ireland Limited, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Kara A, Kumar D, Healy AM, Lalatsa A, Serrano DR. Continuous Manufacturing of Cocrystals Using 3D-Printed Microfluidic Chips Coupled with Spray Coating. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2023; 16:1064. [PMID: 37630979 PMCID: PMC10458959 DOI: 10.3390/ph16081064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2023] [Revised: 07/23/2023] [Accepted: 07/24/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023] Open
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Using cocrystals has emerged as a promising strategy to improve the physicochemical properties of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) by forming a new crystalline phase from two or more components. Particle size and morphology control are key quality attributes for cocrystal medicinal products. The needle-shaped morphology is often considered high-risk and complex in the manufacture of solid dosage forms. Cocrystal particle engineering requires advanced methodologies to ensure high-purity cocrystals with improved solubility and bioavailability and with optimal crystal habit for industrial manufacturing. In this study, 3D-printed microfluidic chips were used to control the cocrystal habit and polymorphism of the sulfadimidine (SDM): 4-aminosalicylic acid (4ASA) cocrystal. The addition of PVP in the aqueous phase during mixing resulted in a high-purity cocrystal (with no traces of the individual components), while it also inhibited the growth of needle-shaped crystals. When mixtures were prepared at the macroscale, PVP was not able to control the crystal habit and impurities of individual mixture components remained, indicating that the microfluidic device allowed for a more homogenous and rapid mixing process controlled by the flow rate and the high surface-to-volume ratios of the microchannels. Continuous manufacturing of SDM:4ASA cocrystals coated on beads was successfully implemented when the microfluidic chip was connected in line to a fluidized bed, allowing cocrystal formulation generation by mixing, coating, and drying in a single step.
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- Aytug Kara
- Departament of Pharmaceutics and Food Science, School of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain;
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221001, India;
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- School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, D02 PN40 Dublin, Ireland;
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- Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0RE, UK;
- CRUK Formulation Unit, School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0RE, UK
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- Departament of Pharmaceutics and Food Science, School of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain;
- Institute of Industrial Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Needles to Spheres: Evaluation of inkjet printing as a particle shape enhancement tool. Eur J Pharm Biopharm 2023; 184:92-102. [PMID: 36707008 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2023.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2022] [Revised: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/21/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) often reveal shapes challenging to process, e.g. acicular structures, and exhibit reduced bioavailability induced by slow dissolution rate. Leveraging the API particles' surface and bulk properties offers an attractive pathway to circumvent these challenges. Inkjet printing is an attractive processing technique able to tackle these limitations already in initial stages when little material is available, while particle properties are maintained over the entire production scale. Additionally, it is applicable to a wide range of formulations and offers the possibility of co-processing with a variety of excipients to improve the API's bioavailability. This study addresses the optimization of particle shapes for processability enhancement and demonstrates the successful application of inkjet printing to engineer spherical lacosamide particles, which are usually highly acicular. By optimizing the ink formulation, adapting the substrate-liquid interface and tailoring the heat transfer to the particle, spherical particles in the vicinity of 100 µm, with improved flow properties compared to the bulk material, were produced. Furthermore, the particle size was tailored reproducibly by adjusting the deposited ink volume per cycle and the number of printing cycles. Therefore, the present study shows a novel, reliable, scalable and economical strategy to overcome challenging particle morphologies by co-processing an API with suitable excipients.
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Liu F, Bagi SD, Su Q, Chakrabarti R, Barral R, Gamekkanda JC, Hu C, Mascia S. Targeting Particle Size Specification in Pharmaceutical Crystallization: A Review on Recent Process Design and Development Strategies and Particle Size Measurements. Org Process Res Dev 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.2c00277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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- Fan Liu
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Diseases, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
- CONTINUUS Pharmaceuticals, 25R Olympia Avenue, Woburn, Massachusetts01801, United States
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- CONTINUUS Pharmaceuticals, 25R Olympia Avenue, Woburn, Massachusetts01801, United States
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- CONTINUUS Pharmaceuticals, 25R Olympia Avenue, Woburn, Massachusetts01801, United States
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- CONTINUUS Pharmaceuticals, 25R Olympia Avenue, Woburn, Massachusetts01801, United States
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- CONTINUUS Pharmaceuticals, 25R Olympia Avenue, Woburn, Massachusetts01801, United States
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- CONTINUUS Pharmaceuticals, 25R Olympia Avenue, Woburn, Massachusetts01801, United States
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- CONTINUUS Pharmaceuticals, 25R Olympia Avenue, Woburn, Massachusetts01801, United States
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- CONTINUUS Pharmaceuticals, 25R Olympia Avenue, Woburn, Massachusetts01801, United States
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An Analysis of the Technical and Economic Influences of Particle Size Control of an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient. J Pharm Innov 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s12247-020-09526-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Kargbo RB, Sherwood AM, Meisenheimer P, Lenoch K, Abebe S. Psilocybin: Characterization of the Metastable Zone Width (MSZW), Control of Anhydrous Polymorphs, and Particle Size Distribution (PSD). ACS OMEGA 2022; 7:5429-5436. [PMID: 35187358 PMCID: PMC8851641 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c06708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Psilocybin, a serotonergic agonist, was granted a "breakthrough therapy" status by the Food and Drug Administration for clinical trials involving major depressive disorder and treatment-resistant depression. The direct phosphorylation of psilocin to psilocybin that uses a fast crystallization associated with a kinetically controlled process resulted in a smaller particle size distribution. Herein, the measurement of the metastable zone width (MSZW) and nucleation induction enabled a thermodynamically controlled crystallization process, which leads to the formation of a crystal structure with stronger interactions, controlled particle size distribution (PSD), and improved impurity profile. Employing a high-resolution inline microscopy viewer allowed the real-time monitoring of the crystallization process and the measurement of the particle size. We also present a comprehensive study of the formation of polymorph B (trihydrate), polymorph A (anhydrate), and polymorph H (anhydrate) using water recrystallization, which indicates that the formation of polymorph B (trihydrate) is independent of the crystallization method. However, polymorphs A and H are dependent on the mode of drying: drying at room temperature under vacuum gives rise to mainly polymorph A, and when heated even at relatively low temperatures, a mixture of polymorphs A and H beings to form.
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- Robert B. Kargbo
- Usona
Institute, 2780 Woods
Hollow Road, Madison, Wisconsin 53711, United States
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- Usona
Institute, 2780 Woods
Hollow Road, Madison, Wisconsin 53711, United States
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- Usona
Institute, 2780 Woods
Hollow Road, Madison, Wisconsin 53711, United States
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- Almac
Sciences, 20 Seagoe Industrial
Estate, Craigavon BT63
5QD, United Kingdom
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White LR, Molloy M, Shaw RJ, Reynolds GK. System model driven selection of robust tablet manufacturing processes based on drug loading and formulation physical attributes. Eur J Pharm Sci 2022; 172:106140. [PMID: 35149202 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejps.2022.106140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2021] [Revised: 02/01/2022] [Accepted: 02/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Mechanistic process modelling presents an opportunity to reduce experimental burden, enabling relationships between process parameters and product attributes to be mapped out using in-silico experiments. A system model of a pharmaceutical tablet manufacturing process comparing dry granulation with direct compression is developed to answer key material and process design questions. The system model links API physical properties and formulation to process parameters to map out the robust operating space. To demonstrate the application of the model, several drug product formulation design questions were considered: •Which processing route is the most robust given the API material properties and dosage requirements?;• How does drug loading and tablet size impact the robustness of the manufacturing process?; •What process settings are required for a robust manufacturing route for the API material properties and drug loading requirements?; A computational framework was developed using the system models to generate process classification and design space maps to aid robust pharmaceutical formulation and process decision making. Process classification maps were produced to assess the feasibility of roller compaction and direct compression for different material properties and formulations. Constraints on the critical quality attributes of the intermediate and final products were defined using the Manufacturing Classification System. Design space maps presented here demonstrate how system models can be used to support formulation and process design. The design space maps illustrate how the process operating space can be increased or decreased as the API mass fraction is varied.; The process design and selection system model demonstrate how an understanding of the API physical properties can be used to model the impact of formulation and process design. Furthermore, these models can be instrumental in the dialogue with colleagues developing the API in order to set the requirements of the API physical properties to ensure successful and robust formulation and process designs.
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- Leah R White
- Oral Product Development, Pharmaceutical Technology & Development, Operations, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, UK
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- Oral Product Development, Pharmaceutical Technology & Development, Operations, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, UK.
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- Oral Product Development, Pharmaceutical Technology & Development, Operations, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, UK
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- Oral Product Development, Pharmaceutical Technology & Development, Operations, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, UK
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Binel P, Mazzotti M. Selective Dissolution Process Featuring a Classification Device for the Removal of Fines in Crystallization: Experiments. Ind Eng Chem Res 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.1c03401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Pietro Binel
- Institute of Energy and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Energy and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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Yang Y, Ahmed B, Mitchell C, Quon JL, Siddique H, Houson I, Florence AJ, Papageorgiou CD. Investigation of Wet Milling and Indirect Ultrasound as Means for Controlling Nucleation in the Continuous Crystallization of an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient. Org Process Res Dev 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.1c00209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Yihui Yang
- Process Chemistry and Development, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International Company, Boston, 40 Landsdowne, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- EPSRC Future CMAC Manufacturing Research Hub, Institute of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences, Technology and Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1RD, U.K
- EPSRC Future CMAC Manufacturing Research Hub, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, U.K
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- Process Chemistry and Development, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International Company, Boston, 40 Landsdowne, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Process Chemistry and Development, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International Company, Boston, 40 Landsdowne, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- EPSRC Future CMAC Manufacturing Research Hub, Institute of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences, Technology and Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1RD, U.K
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- EPSRC Future CMAC Manufacturing Research Hub, Institute of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences, Technology and Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1RD, U.K
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- EPSRC Future CMAC Manufacturing Research Hub, Institute of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences, Technology and Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1RD, U.K
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- Process Chemistry and Development, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International Company, Boston, 40 Landsdowne, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Azad MA, Capellades G, Wang AB, Klee DM, Hammersmith G, Rapp K, Brancazio D, Myerson AS. Impact of Critical Material Attributes (CMAs)-Particle Shape on Miniature Pharmaceutical Unit Operations. AAPS PharmSciTech 2021; 22:98. [PMID: 33709195 PMCID: PMC7952360 DOI: 10.1208/s12249-020-01915-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Accepted: 12/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emphasizes drug product development by Quality by Design (QbD). Critical material attributes (CMAs) are a QbD element that has an impact on pharmaceutical operations and product quality. Pharmaceutical drugs often crystallize as needle-shaped (a CMA) particles and affect the process due to poor flowability, low bulk density, and high compressibility, and eventually the product performance. In this study, the product obtained from crystallization was needle-shaped Ciprofloxacin HCl (CIPRO), formed lumps during drying, and compacted during processing through feeders. To delump small amounts of materials and break the needles, multiple available devices (mortar-pestle, Krups grinder) and custom-made grinder were assessed before formulation. The processed CIPRO powder was then used to make tablets in the miniature tablet manufacturing unit developed by the team at MIT. The critical quality attributes (CQA) of the tablets, set by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), were then assessed for the drug powder processed with each of these devices. Powder properties comparable to commercial CIPRO were obtained when the custom MIT-designed grinder was used, leading to tablets that meet the USP criteria, with comparable dissolution profiles of those for marketed CIPRO tablets. This study demonstrates how needle-shaped crystals have an impact on pharmaceutical operations, even if it is on a miniature scale, and how proper shape and subsequent flow properties can be obtained by processing the particles through the MIT team-designed grinder. ![]()
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Perini G, Avendaño C, Hicks W, Parsons AR, Vetter T. Predicting filtration of needle-like crystals: A Monte Carlo simulation study of polydisperse packings of spherocylinders. Chem Eng Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2020.116151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Demonstration of the Feasibility of Predicting the Flow of Pharmaceutically Relevant Powders from Particle and Bulk Physical Properties. J Pharm Innov 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s12247-020-09433-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Elkomy MH, El-Gazayerly ON, Abdelrahman AA. The Influence of Solid/Solvent Interfacial Interactions on Physicochemical and Mechanical Properties of Ofloxacin. J Pharm Innov 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s12247-020-09431-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Szilagyi B, Nagy ZK. Model-based analysis and quality-by-design framework for high aspect ratio crystals in crystallizer-wet mill systems using GPU acceleration enabled optimization. Comput Chem Eng 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2019.04.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Ahmed B, Brown CJ, McGlone T, Bowering DL, Sefcik J, Florence AJ. Engineering of acetaminophen particle attributes using a wet milling crystallisation platform. Int J Pharm 2019; 554:201-211. [PMID: 30391338 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2018.10.073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2018] [Revised: 10/27/2018] [Accepted: 10/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Wet milling coupled with crystallisation has considerable potential to deliver enhanced control over particle attributes. The effect of process conditions and wet mill configuration on particle size, shape and surface energy has been investigated on acetaminophen using a seeded cooling crystallisation coupled with a wet mill unit generating size controlled acetaminophen crystals through an interchangeable rotor-tooth configuration. The integrated wet milling crystallisation platform incorporates inline focused beam reflectance measurement (FBRM) and particle vision measurement (PVM) for in-depth understanding of particle behaviour under high-shear conditions. We used a recently developed computational tool for converting chord length distribution (CLD) from FBRM to particle size distribution (PSD) to obtain quantitative insight into the effect of the competing mechanisms of size reduction and growth in a wet milling seeded crystallisation process for acetaminophen. The novelty of our wet milling crystallisation approach is in delivery of consistent surface energies across a range of particle sizes. This highlights the potential to engineer desirable particle attributes through a carefully designed, highly intensified crystallisation process.
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- Bilal Ahmed
- EPSRC Future Manufacturing Research Hub for Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation (CMAC), University of Strathclyde, Technology and Innovation Centre, 99 George Street, Glasgow G1 1RD, United Kingdom; Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS), University of Strathclyde, 161 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0RE, United Kingdom
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- EPSRC Future Manufacturing Research Hub for Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation (CMAC), University of Strathclyde, Technology and Innovation Centre, 99 George Street, Glasgow G1 1RD, United Kingdom; Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS), University of Strathclyde, 161 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0RE, United Kingdom
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- EPSRC Future Manufacturing Research Hub for Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation (CMAC), University of Strathclyde, Technology and Innovation Centre, 99 George Street, Glasgow G1 1RD, United Kingdom; Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS), University of Strathclyde, 161 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0RE, United Kingdom
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- EPSRC Future Manufacturing Research Hub for Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation (CMAC), University of Strathclyde, Technology and Innovation Centre, 99 George Street, Glasgow G1 1RD, United Kingdom; Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS), University of Strathclyde, 161 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0RE, United Kingdom
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- EPSRC Future Manufacturing Research Hub for Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation (CMAC), University of Strathclyde, Technology and Innovation Centre, 99 George Street, Glasgow G1 1RD, United Kingdom; Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde, James Weir Building, 75 Montrose Street, Glasgow G1 1XJ, United Kingdom
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- EPSRC Future Manufacturing Research Hub for Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation (CMAC), University of Strathclyde, Technology and Innovation Centre, 99 George Street, Glasgow G1 1RD, United Kingdom; Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS), University of Strathclyde, 161 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0RE, United Kingdom.
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Agimelen OS, Svoboda V, Ahmed B, Cardona J, Dziewierz J, Brown CJ, McGlone T, Cleary A, Tachtatzis C, Michie C, Florence AJ, Andonovic I, Mulholland AJ, Sefcik J. Multi-sensor inline measurements of crystal size and shape distributions during high shear wet milling of crystal slurries. ADV POWDER TECHNOL 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.apt.2018.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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