Polymers for Oral Drug Delivery Technologies (Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomaterials) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0443137749 ISBN 13: 9780443137747

Publisher: Woodhead Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

Polymers for Oral Drug Delivery Technologies covers the fundamentals of oral drug delivery and various aspects of polymer technology in oral drug delivery, from classification and synthesis, to applications and regulatory factors. It presents the oral delivery of therapeutics for treating a number of diseases, along with the challenges of oral drug administration to assure a predictive and reproducible pharmacokinetic profile of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API).

Polymers play an important role to achieve the targeted release profile consistently of an API in vivo by various functionalities like drug protection from gastric juice, fast release and supersaturation or release within a targeted area of the GI tract.

• Provides a comprehensive update on the state of polymer technology for oral drug delivery, bringing the reader up-to-speed via a single reference
• Covers a range of polymer technology types, including capsule forming polymers, matrix formers, functional polymer coatings, and more
• Contains contributions from global experts spanning academia and industry, offering an interdisciplinary and translational approach to polymers for oral drug delivery

About this title

About the Author

Dr Anilkumar Parambath is Senior R&D Manager of YTY Group, Indorama Corp., Perak, Malaysia. Prior to this, he was R&D Manager, Science & Technology at Unilever (2021-2024); Senior Manager and Head of Capsules Product R&D, ACG Capsules, Mumbai, India (2018-2021) and Principal Investigator for Performance and Specialty Materials at Syngene International Ltd, Bangalore India (2017-2018), where he worked on developing various elastomers, silicones, acrylics and other polymers for biomedical applications. He completed his PhD in Chemistry (Polymer Science) at the University of Kerala, India, and spent 7 years conducting post-doctoral research at Clemson University, USA, French atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France, and the University of British Columbia, Canada. HIs expertise is in polymer science, materials science, green chemistry, nanotechnology, nanomedicine, and biomaterials science. Dr. Parambath has edited three books on polymer biomaterials in drug delivery applications, including two with Elsevier, and has published many books chapters and journal articles. He has two patents to his name. In 2024, he was recognized by the American Chemical Society (ACS) as a Sustainability Star.

From the Back Cover

Oral delivery is the most preferred route of the delivery of therapeutics for treating a number of diseases. The challenge of oral drug administration is to assure a predictive and reproducible pharmacokinetic profile of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API). Polymers play an important role to achieve the targeted release profile consistently of an API in vivo by various functionalities like drug protection from gastric juice, fast release and supersaturation or release within a targeted area of the GI tract. This book is divided into two parts, covering the fundamentals of oral drug delivery and the various aspects of polymer technology in oral drug delivery, from classification and synthesis, to applications and regulatory factors.

Edition details

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0443137749
• ISBN 13: 9780443137747
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 854
• Editor: Parambath Anilkumar