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

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.

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.