Integrated Pharmaceutics: A Comprehensive Guide to Drug Delivery

Integrated Pharmaceutics, authored by Antoine Al-Achi, is a comprehensive guide to the science of developing effective dosage forms for drug delivery. This multidisciplinary field combines physical chemistry, organic chemistry, and biophysics to create and refine drug delivery products or devices, optimizing the drug’s performance once administered.

Understanding Pharmaceutics

Pharmaceutics is a subfield of pharmaceutical sciences that focuses on the development of drug delivery products or devices. It is a multidisciplinary field that draws on physical chemistry, organic chemistry, and biophysics to generate and refine these crucial elements of medical care. By incorporating various dimensions of drug product design, such as material properties and legal regulation, it bridges the gap between effective chemicals and viable medical treatments.

Comprehensive Introduction to Drug Delivery

Integrated Pharmaceutics provides a comprehensive introduction to the creation and manufacture of effective dosage forms for drug delivery. It presents its subject following the principles of physical pharmacy, product design, and drug regulations. This tripartite structure allows readers to move from theory to practice, beginning from a firm foundation of physical pharmacy principles, including drug solubility and stability estimation, rheology, and interfacial properties. From there, it proceeds to discussions of drug product design and of harmonizing pharmaceutical design with the regulatory regimens and technological standards of the United States, European Union, and Japan.

Key Features of Integrated Pharmaceutics

Readers of the second edition of Integrated Pharmaceutics will also find:

• A glossary defining key terms
• Extensive informative appendices
• A list of references leading to the primary literature in the field for each chapter
• Earlier chapters are expanded, with additional new chapters including one entitled Biotechnology Products
• Supplementary instructor guide with questions and solutions available online for registered professors
• Updated regulatory guidelines including quality by design, design space analysis, process analytical technology, polymorphism characterization, blend sample uniformity, and stability protocols

Target Audience

Integrated Pharmaceutics is a useful textbook for graduate students in pharmaceutical sciences, drug formulation and design, and biomedical engineering. In addition, professionals in the pharmaceutical industry, including regulatory bodies, will find it a helpful reference guide.