3D Printing Pharmaceuticals: Drug Development to Frontline Care.

3D printing (3DP) is forecast to be a highly revolutionary technology within the pharmaceutical sector. In particular, the main benefits of 3DP lie in the production of small batches of medicines, each with tailored dosages, shapes, sizes and release characteristics. The manufacture of medicines in this way may finally lead to the concept of personalised medicines becoming a reality. In the shorter term, 3DP could be extended throughout the drug development process, ranging from preclinical development and clinical trials, through to frontline medical care. In this review, we provide a timely perspective on the motivations and potential applications of 3DP pharmaceuticals, as well as a practical viewpoint on how 3DP could be integrated across the pharmaceutical space.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  TIPS - Trends in Pharmacological Sciences

• Publication date

  2018-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Business, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.tips.2018.02.006PMID 29534837
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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