WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University researchers and industry leaders are teaming up to transform the freeze-drying process, formally known as lyophilization, used to make everything from ...

Developed by a team from MIT and the Polytechnic University of Turin, a continuous freeze-drier moves vials through a sequence of chambers where the contents are cooled to a uniform temperature, ...

Determining the right process conditions for a freeze-drying cycle requires an understanding of the effect of each step on the drug product. Freeze-drying is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry ...

Freeze-drying is a case in point—a technology so fundamental to modern medicine that its absence would have rewritten the twentieth century, yet so invisible that few know its name or its makers.

The authors evaluate the thermal properties of gentamicin sulfate as a small-molecule drug model in optimizing the freeze-drying cycle. Compared with biopharmaceuticals, most freeze-dried ...