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Apocalyptic clinical pharmacology helps drug developers save resources and time through providing a framework for understanding the interaction of the drug under development with the biological system. This framework also helps answer questions from regulatory authorities who are evaluating the safety and efficacy of the drug. Making informed decisions throughout the drug development process requires […]
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In early October, we held our D360 user group meeting (UGM) in Dublin, Ireland with the goal of fostering community among the users of our scientific informatics platform. In this blog post, I’ll share the UGM highlights and what’s coming up for the next UGM. Goals for this year’s meeting The meeting had three themes: […]
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Physiologically-based pharmacokinetics (PBPK) is a valuable resource to support decisions throughout drug development for sponsors and regulators. PBPK is used extensively to predict drug-drug interactions (DDIs), to inform dosing and clinical study design, to predict drug exposure, to predict variation in drug clearance, and to understand mechanisms of drug disposition. Virtual Twin technology, based on […]
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In this blog, I will introduce “apocalyptic clinical pharmacology” and provide a framework for using this approach in drug development, which can save resources and time. Apocalyptic clinical pharmacology in drug development provides value offering a framework for thinking about the relationship between the drug dose and the biological system. What is apocalyptic clinical pharmacology? […]
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In vitro-in vivo correlation (IVIVC) technology allows formulation and manufacturing (CMC) professionals to understand how dissolution parameters affect in vivo drug performance. IVIVC can be performed at one of three levels—A, B, and C. Getting the most out of this tool requires knowing when and how to use which level of IVIVC. Here are some […]
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In a recent Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology article, I assessed the status and future direction of precision dosing in clinical medicine.1 Model-informed precision dosing (MIPD) is a modeling and simulation (M&S) approach in healthcare that is used to predict the most effective and/or least toxic drug dose for a patient. MIPD could revolutionize healthcare […]
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As drug development has become more complex, with a higher risk of failure, greater uncertainty, and increased expense, the need for a quantitative and regulatory science-based strategy becomes clear. The first step in that performing that strategic assessment is a gap analysis and roadmap. Over the last couple of months, I’ve written a series of blog […]
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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a life-threatening, sex-linked, pediatric rare disease, primarily affecting boys. It is characterized by progressive muscle degeneration, weakness, and eventually functional loss. DMD is caused by a mutation in the dystrophin gene, a protein needed to maintain muscle integrity, and for improving signaling and growth in differentiation of the muscle tissue. […]
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In vitro in vivo correlation (IVIVC) links in vitro drug data to in vivo performance. Regarding in vivo performance, IVIVC can predict either the in vivo plasma time-concentration curve or in vivo pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters like Cmax and AUC. In this blog, I will discuss Level C IVIVC, and when you should use this approach. […]
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Clinical pharmacology gap analysis is a tool for outlining your drug program’s needs, prioritizing these needs, and providing a framework for how to satisfy them. This tool can create value for drug development programs. While gap analysis can be performed at any point in the drug development continuum, early engagement is best for maximizing its benefits. […]
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Over the last 15 years, the importance of drug transporters has become paramount for understanding drug absorption, distribution into tissues, and in particular, drug-drug interactions (DDIs). In vitro-in vivo extrapolation (IVIVE) is an approach to link in vitro systems to the human in vivo situation using algorithms and physiologically-based scaling factors. In this blog, I […]
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In the ongoing commitment to education and coinciding with the launch of Phoenix 8.1, Certara has introduced a new certification program available through Certara University. The new online accreditation program validates the scientists’ PK/PD data analysis skills using Certara software such as Phoenix WinNonlin and expands their professional reach. I caught up with Ana Henry, […]
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As a quality consultant and quality system subject matter expert in the Life Sciences Industry for over 25 years, I have worked for many pharmaceutical companies both large and small and as a consultant with many clients in the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device industries. These clients possess a range of experience in software validation—from […]
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Phoenix 8.1, the newest version of Certara’s innovative PK/PD modeling and simulation software used globally by researchers and drug developers in pharma, academia, and regulatory agencies, will be available on June 15, 2018. Major enhancements were introduced in the Phoenix workbench last year. And as an ongoing commitment to support compliance and efficiency, many features […]
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When I attend scientific conferences, I feel as though I have reached my own personal “Nerdvana.” I love everything about them! I love going to the sessions and learning the latest cutting edge insights from the leaders in our field. I love walking the aisles of posters and getting to talk one-on-one with scientists about […]
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has set May 5, 2018 as the compliance date for submitting many types of files—Drug Master File (DMFs) and commercial investigational new drugs (INDs)—in the electronic Common Technical Document (eCTD) format. A DMF provides confidential, detailed information about facilities, processes, or articles used in the manufacturing, processing, packaging, […]
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Sitting around the Certara’s Raleigh office conference room, sketching out a pitch for a pharmacometrics contest at a national meeting, none of us were overly confident in its viability. Mark Lovern had been talking about the importance of communication skills for pharmacometricians. For them to influence critical drug development decisions, they should be able to […]
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There are numerous challenges in developing oncology drugs: (1) they are often very toxic which precludes conducting clinical trials in healthy volunteers, (2) the PK of a drug may be altered in cancer patients due to demographic and physiological differences as compared to healthy volunteers, and (3) cancer patients face elevated drug-drug interaction (DDI) risk […]
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Modeling and simulation (M&S) of complex systems has primarily advanced vertically in differing scientific domains with a variety of domain-specific approaches and applications. The pharmacology to payer (P2P) concept is a way to connect independent domains to address drug development market failures. As an initial proof of concept, we collaborated with a team of clinical pharmacologists, […]
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Many companies have tried and true clinical pharmacology practices. But when the rubber hits the road for your drug program, will these practices support regulatory success? Has your historic approach to drug development been updated to include the latest modeling and simulation innovations? It’s hard to change how you’ve historically done things. But, do you […]
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