Advanced Pediatric Drug Formulation Strategies
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Pharmacy and Formulation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 5830
Special Issue Editors
Interests: taste-masked medicinal formulations; taste assessment; paediatric formulations; veterinary formulations
2. Telethon Kids Institute, Perth Children's Hospital, 5 Hospital Ave, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia
Interests: paediatric formulation; population pharmacokinetics; design of experiments
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Regulatory, consumer and clinician advocacy for the development of age-appropriate medicines for the pediatric population has resulted in significant progress in the last decade. Strategies such as the application of peroral minitablets and microparticles are regarded as highly promising in offering dose flexibility and swallowability for young children. Several taste-masking platforms have also been developed for bitter-tasting drugs and have been clinically demonstrated to be more acceptable to the pediatric population than standard treatment options. More recently, advanced formulation strategies such as 3D printing and nanotechnology have emerged to address the medication needs of the diverse pediatric population.
The aim of this Special Issue of Pharmaceutics is to highlight new pediatric formulation strategies that address the issues of dose flexibility, swallowability, palatability, and the diverse physiological developmental stages encountered in the pediatric population. We invite researchers to publish their original research or review articles addressing novel taste-masking technology, 3D printing technology, nanotechnology, PK-informed personalized medicines, non-oral formulations, and AI-driven formulation strategies that are applied to the development of medicinal formulations for the pediatric population.
Prof. Dr. Lee-Yong Lim
Dr. Okhee Yoo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- paediatric/pediatric
- taste masking
- 3D printing
- nanotechnology
- PK-informed personalized medicines
- non-oral pediatric formulations
- AI-directed pediatric formulations
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Planned Papers
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Title: Numerical modeling of microparticle inhalation in a realistic mouth-throat airway with pediatric tonsil hypertrophy: A virtual comparative analysis between pre- and post-operative models
Author: Yang
Highlights: •This study numerically investigates the impact of tonsillar hypertrophy-induced oropharyngeal airway obstruction on the transport and deposition of inhaled corticosteroids in the airways.
•For the first time, a study was conducted on the establishment of pre- and post-operative mouth–throat airway models by virtual surgery
•After removing oropharyngeal obstruction, a significant reduction in airway resistance was observed.