Polymer technologies

Key features and benefits:

• Suitable for a large variety of compounds, including proteins
• Scalable technology
• Easily adjustable to specific requirements by controlling polymer composition and process conditions
• Well-known, clinically proven safe microspheres
• Full control over physico-chemical and degradation characteristics
• Biodegradable technology
• No accumulation of acidic degradation products
• Drug integrity and bioactivity is preserved by low temperature processing
• Absolute control over particle size
• Patented technology
• High encapsulation efficiency (on average higher than 80%)

Key features and benefits:

• Biocompatible polymers safely disappear at the same rate as the release of the drug
• Technology is suitable for a variety of compounds, such as peptides and small molecules
• Drug delivery at even the most sensitive tissue sites
• Injectable through up to 31G needles
• Stabilization of sensitive compounds, e.g. excellent maintenance of bio-activity of peptides
• Simple and mild formulation in aqueous solutions
• Highest loading capacity of all injectable gel technologies (up to 25%)
• Sustained and localized release for days, weeks to months with limited or no burst
• Patented technology
• Soft gels with sufficient strength

Key features and benefits:

• Biocompatibility
• Tailored biodegradation rate (small molecules only)
• Approval for clinical use in humans by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)