3D printing pharmaceuticals – Sheng Qi, Simon Gaisford, Clive Roberts
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The idea of personalised medicine has been gaining interest in recent years as the drug development and healthcare industries seek to reduce side effects, improve adherence, and thus patient outcomes. As a potential enabler of personalised oral solid dosage forms (OSDs), three-dimensional (3D) printing has garnered significant interest. But despite a surge in research over the last decade, following patents for 3D printers expiring in 2009, so far just one pharmaceutical manufactured using 3D printing has been approved by regulators, Spritam® (levetiracetam), back in 2015. To find out about recent developments in the field, the major hurdles stalling the widespread implementation of 3D printing in commercial manufacturing and more, European Pharmaceutical Review's Hannah Balfour spoke with Sheng Qi, Professor of Pharmaceutical Material Science and Technology at the University of East Anglia, Simon Gaisford, Professor of Pharmaceutics in the University College London (UCL) School of Pharmacy, and Clive Roberts, Chair of Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology at the University of Nottingham.
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