Pharmaceutical science designed around the patient experience
The R&D team can explore pharmaceutical dosage forms that borrow familiar characteristics from confectionery and consumer products while maintaining pharmaceutical-grade ingredients, controls, packaging, documentation, and appropriate regulatory safeguards.
The goal is not to treat medicine as candy.
The goal is to make appropriate medications:
- Easier to administer
- More familiar
- Better tasting
- Easier to distinguish
- More patient-friendly
- More compatible with modern consumer expectations
Patient experience × pharmaceutical science
Familiar characteristics are developed on one side; pharmaceutical requirements hold on the other. Both sides are specified in the same program.
Patient experience
- Familiar characteristics from confectionery and consumer products
- Administration, taste and texture
- Recognition and differentiation
Pharmaceutical science
- Pharmaceutical-grade ingredients
- Controls, packaging and documentation
- Appropriate regulatory safeguards
Development concepts
14 concepts- Chewable pharmaceutical dosage forms
- Soft-chew concepts
- Rapid-dissolve tablets
- Flavored lozenges
- Troches
- Specialty molded dosage forms
- Small-format tablets
- Unique geometries
- Layered visual concepts
- Custom colors where appropriate
- Individually wrapped presentations
- Unit-dose presentations
- Patient-friendly oral delivery formats
- Confectionery-inspired textures where scientifically and legally appropriate
The dosage form platform
Six groups of pharmaceutical formats the team can develop against, each with its own processing, testing and packaging consequences.
Oral solid dosage forms
- Tablets
- ODTs
- Chewable tablets
- Capsules
- Powder-filled capsules
- Rapid-dissolve dosage forms
- Specialty geometries
Sublingual / buccal
- Troches
- Lozenges
- Sublingual tablets
- Buccal tablets
- Rapid-dissolve platforms
- Oral films where applicable
Liquids
- Oral solutions
- Suspensions
- Syrups
- Drops
- Reconstitutable formulations
Topicals
- Creams
- Gels
- Ointments
- Lotions
- Foams
- Serums
- Specialty dermatological systems
Suppositories
- Rectal
- Vaginal
- Specialty molded systems
Sterile development
Where legally and operationally applicable:
- Injectable formulation development
- Sterile solution development
- Vial presentations
- Syringe presentations
- Sterile process development
- Container-closure evaluation
Geometry is a tooling decision
Potential capabilities:
- Custom tablet punches
- Custom dies
- Logo development
- Tablet geometry
- Score lines
- Specialty shapes
- Troche molds
- Prototype tooling
- Packaging tooling
- Custom fixtures
Make the dosage form part of the brand
For selected programs, the dosage form itself can become part of the client's product identity. Capabilities may include:
- Custom tablet geometry
- Unique tablet shapes
- Embossed dosage forms
- Debossed dosage forms
- Client initials
- Symbols
- Brand marks
- Score lines
- Custom troche molds
- Specialty cavities
- Custom tooling
- Client-specific design elements
