Advances in Pharmaceutical Product Development

This book discusses the stages involved in pharmaceutical product development including the importance, requirement, and effect of each stage and process. It also covers prototype development for pharmaceutical formulations, scale-up studies, optimization, testing, packaging, and commercialization of different dosage forms for pharmaceutical products like tablets, suspensions, emulsions, coating, inhalational products, sterile products, and herbal formulations. The book also presents advancements in tablet production and tablet coating, including materials, material handling, granulation and granulation technologies, process automation, processing problems in tablet production and troubleshooting, advances in equipment for coating and coating materials. Further, the chapter explores the advances in the formulation and development of aerosols, nebulizers, inhalers, metered Dose Inhalers (MDI), and dry powder Inhalers (DPIs). Towards the end, the book examines the challenges, formulation development, testing, stability, and regulatory guidelines in the development of herbal formulations. This book provides a valuable source of information for the researcher, scientists, students, and people working in the area mainly focused on the challenges in pharmaceutical product development.

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Dr. Keerti Jain is presently working as Assistant Professor in Department of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) – Raebareli. She has earned her M. Pharm. and Doctorate degree from Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. H. S. Gour Central University, Sagar. Dr. Jain previously worked as Associate Professor in ISF College of Pharmacy, Moga, India and as Assistant Professor in Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research University (DPSRU), New Delhi. She did her Post Doctorate from M. S. University of Vadodara, India as SERB-National Post-Doctoral Fellow. She has about 15 years of research experience on Nanomedicine based drug delivery systems. Dr. Jain has filed six patents from her innovative research and received funding for research projects from CSIR, ICMR and SERB, New Delhi. She has edited several books and contributed to a few book chapters. She has been awarded with various research fellowships including SERB – NPDF, CSIR-SRF, UGC-JRF and awarded with many awards for her research work including Pharmaceutical Science Alumni Award-2006, most innovative Idea award in LUFTHANSA impact week, SPER Women Forum - Young Scientist Award and prestigious ICMR – Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize for the year 2019. She has been invited to present her research work at several national and seven international conferences and enlisted among World’s Top 2% Scientists, consecutively for year 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 in the field of Pharmacology & Pharmacy, a list created by Stanford University, USA. Dr. Jain has published more than 70 research papers in many prestigious international journals and also served as a reviewer for several reputed international journals. 

Dr. Awesh K. Yadav is currently working as Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) - Raebareli (A Transit Campus at Lucknow) India, Dr. Yadav has completed his B. Pharm, M. Pharm and Ph.D. degree from Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, Sagar (MP) India. Dr. Yadav served as Principal at Bhagyoday Tirth Pharmacy College Sagar (MP) India.  Earlier, he served as Assistant Manager in R&D (Formulation) at Ipca Laboratories Limited Mumbai India. Then, he worked as Research Scientist at Himalaya Drug Company Bangalore, India and as a Research Assistant at Sun Pharm Advanced Research Centre (SPARC), Vadodara (GJ). His research interest is in drug delivery and drug targeting using various drug delivery systems and ligands i.e., Nanoparticles, Nanodiamonds, fullerenes etc. He has been conferred with various prestigious awards notably, Outstanding Teacher award by APTI MP State Branch. He has received various research fellowships including ICMR-SRF, UGC-JRF and awarded for his research work and has served as a reviewer for several international journals. He has also published various research articles in the peer-reviewed international journal and authored or co-authored a few books and book chapters. He is a member of several international scientific societies and organizations importantly, Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI), Society of ethnopharmacology, Society of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, India.