Stuart R. Gallant, MD, PhD In Danielle Ofri’s recent column in The New York Times “My Patients Used to Be Enthusiastic About the Covid Vaccine. …
Tag: Parenteral
Trends in Pharmaceutical Autoinjector Design and Use
Stuart R. Gallant, MD, PhD In today’s post, some important aspects of development and manufacture of combination products with pharmaceutical autoinjectors are considered. Pharmaceutical autoinjectors…
Subcutaneous Suspensions for Challenging Formulations
Stuart R. Gallant, MD, PhD In today’s post, we will look at subcutaneous suspensions as a way of meeting difficult drug delivery challenges. To decide…
Anti-TNF Medications
Stuart R. Gallant, MD, PhD I have a weakness for old Hollywood movies. The movie still that appears above this paragraph depicts John Carradine in…
Moderna’s Bivalent Booster
Stuart R. Gallant, MD, PhD Back in April, PharmaTopo posted on lipid nanoparticle formulations for Covid-19 vaccines [1]. Because the Moderna bivalent vaccine recently arrived…
Pharmaceutical Design Focus: Clot Busters (2 of 2)
Stuart R. Gallant, MD, PhD In the first part of this post, we looked at urokinase. In the second part, we will look at tissue…
Pharmaceutical Design Focus: Clot Busters (1 of 2)
Stuart R. Gallant, MD, PhD This November will be the 35th anniversary of the approval of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA, alteplase) a leading treatment for…
Lipid Nanoparticles for Covid-19 Vaccines
Stuart R. Gallant, MD, PhD Hopefully, you have received your Covid-19 vaccine. If you did, there’s a pretty good chance it was delivered in lipid…
Parenterals and Covid-19
Stuart R. Gallant, MD, PhD The Biden administration has announced that it plans to invest billions of dollars in Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing capacity [1]. What’s…