Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Six Volume Set (Print)

29 New Chapter Topics:

Automated Dissolution Testing

Biomarkers in Drug Discovery and Development

Computational Chemistry

Contamination Control: Cleanrooms and Clean Air Devices

Control of genotoxic impurities in pharmaceutical products

Crystal Form Analysis of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs)

Drug Delivery using Electrophoresis

Drug Delivery: Inner Ear

Drug Transporters in ADME

Evolutionary Computing and Formulation Optimization

Freeze Drying of Biologicals

Good Publication Practice

High-Throughput Screening (HTS) in Drug Discovery

Impurity Identification in Pharmaceuticals

Injection Molding and its Drug Delivery Applications

Microcalorimetry in Pharmaceutical Development

Multivariate Statistical Analysis

Nano-Needle Systems for Vaccine Delivery

Oral Lipid-Based Formulations

Orally Disintegrating Tablets

Parenteral Formulation: Local Injection Site Reaction and Muscle Tolerance

Particle Shape Analysis

Proteins and Peptides: Physical and Chemical Stability

Quality by Design (QbD) and Analytical Method Development

Quality Target Product Profile (QTPP) for Pharmaceutical Packaging and Delivery Systems

Quality by Design (QbD) in Freeze Drying

Scale-Up of Solid Dispersions

Single-Use Processing in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Statistical Outliers: Methods and Applications

Biography

James Swarbrick, D.Sc., Ph.D., is the president of PharmaceuTech, Inc., Pinehurst, North Carolina, USA. He has served in a number of industrial and academic positions, including director of product development at Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute, Rensselaer, New York, and vice president for research and development and vice president for scientific affairs at AAIPharma, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. Prior to joining AAIPharma, he was a professor and chairman of the Division of Pharmaceutics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Pharmacy.

Dr. Swarbrick is a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. He has also served as a member and chairman of the FDA’s Generic Drugs Advisory Committee, as chairman of the PhRMA Foundation’s Pharmaceutics Advisory Committee, as well as a member of the PhRMA Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee.

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