Controlled Drug Delivery: From Macroformulation to Nanotechnology PURDUE UNIVERSITY Pharmaceutics & Biomedical Engineering Purdue Cancer Center Kinam Park
Modern medicine would not exist without drugs
Reasons for the high cost of drug development New Chemical Entities: 1/4~1/3 are unusable due to unfavorable physicochemical & biochemical properties
Plastics “One word. Just one word: Plastics. There’s a great future in plastics.”
EVOLUTION OF DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS Patience Compliance & Convenience Enhancement of Products Extension of product life (or patent life) Delivery of Drugs with Unfavorable Properties Synergistic partnership with drug discovery
Patience Compliance & Convenience Enhancement of Products Once-a-day Once-a-week Once-a-month Once-a-year Once-a-decade On-demand Norplant: Made of Silicone rubber 36 mg levonogestrel. 85 ug/day (later 30 ug/day) up to 7 years.
Macroformulations
EVOLUTION OF DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS Patience Compliance & Convenience Enhancement of Products Extension of product life (or patent life) Delivery of Drugs with Unfavorable Properties -Poor water solubility -Poor permeability -Poor stability
Transdermal Patches with Microneedles
Nano Drug Delivery Systems
Drug Nanoparticles
Polymeric Nanostructures for Drug Delivery Polymeric drug Polymer-protein conjugate Polyplex: Polymer-DNA complex Polymer-drug conjugate Polymeric micelle Ruth Duncan: The Dawning Era of Polymeric Therapeutics, Nature Reviews 2:347, 2003
Ideal Drug Delivery Systems 1. High drug loading 2. Drug stability 3. Targeting Long circulation, targeting moiety 4. Cellular absorption Mechanisms 5. Escape from endosome
Targeting Cellular Uptake
Tumour Targeting EPR Effect Antibody Targeting Magnetic field Ruth Duncan
Folate mediated polymeric micelles PEG (Mw:3,400) PLGA (Mw:8,000) Folate 104.9 11.5 nm Figure. Confocal microscopic images of KB cells incubated with (A, B) DOX micelles and (C, D) DOX/FOL micelles in the presence and absence of folate in the medium. Ref.: Journal of Controlled Release (2004) 96, 273-283
Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery Fabrication of nanodevices: Biodegradable Polymers, Hydrogels) Targeting: Homing moiety (EPR, Ab, GPS) Cellular Uptake: Biological, Mechanical Removal from the body: Biodegradable nanodevices