171 results about "Polymeric drug" patented technology

This invention provides a polymeric drug delivery system including a hydrogel containing one or more drugs for the treatment of a posterior segment disease. Exemplary drugs are anti-angiogenesis compounds for the treatment of macular degeneration. Allowing passive transference of this drug from a dilute solution into the hydrogel produces the delivery system. The hydrogel, when placed in contact with the eye, delivers the drug. The delivery of the drug is sustained over an extended period of time, which is of particular utility in the eye, which is periodically flushed with tears. This sustained delivery accelerates the treatment process while avoiding potential damaging effects of localized delivery of high concentrations of compounds, e.g., from eye drops.

The present invention relates to a polymeric drug conjugate with one or more biologically active agents conjugated via an enzymatically cleavable linker to either a regular repeating linear unit comprising a water soluble polymer segment and a multifunctional chemical moiety, or a branched polymer comprising two or more water soluble polymer segments each bound to a common multifunctional chemical moiety, as well as to methods of making such conjugates. The present invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such conjugates and to the use of such conjugates to treat pathological conditions.

Polymer and drug containing compositions and method of preparing such compositions are disclosed. The dispersed phase formulation has a polymer, a pharmaceutically or biologically active agent and a small fraction of low pKa acid additive. Stable, filter sterilizable, non-gelling solutions containing GnRH analogues at least at levels typically used in sustained release formulations and a method of increasing solubility of a high level of a GnRH analogue or a freeze-dried antgonist of GnRH in a polymer containing solution are also disclosed. The amount of the acid additive in the polymer solution is such that it is sufficient to increase the solubility of the high level of the GnRH analogue in the polymer solution without affecting the release characteristics of the microspheres prepared therefrom.

Polymeric drug formulations containing a non-releasing single-phase dispersion of a water-soluble drug in a water-insoluble tissue-compatible polymer matrix. Polymeric drug formulations are also disclosed containing a single-phase dispersion of a water-soluble drug and a water-insoluble tissue-compatible polymer matrix, and a second, phase-disrupting polymer that is non-miscible with the tissue-compatible polymer and is present in an amount sufficient to form phase-separated microdomains of the second polymer in the tissue-compatible polymer matrix, so that the release rate of the water-soluble drug from the tissue-compatible polymer matrix is related to the amount of the second polymer. Methods of preparing the polymeric drug formulations are also described, as well as methods for site-specific drug delivery utilizing the polymeric drug formulations.

Biodegradable polymeric implants can provide a safe and efficient means to deliver drugs in the treatment of various diseases. Although a polymeric drug delivery system can be implanted as a solid device within a subject, it is also possible to administer such a system as an injectable liquid which solidifies in vivo. An improved formulation of a polymeric drug delivery system comprises a water insoluble copolymer that is a solid or wax at 37° C., a water soluble polymer that is a liquid at 25° C., and a hydrophobic drug. These drug delivery systems can be administered by injection, and do not require the use of a toxic curing agent or inconvenient temperature manipulations.

The invention relates to methods and materials that, for example, function to increase the barrier properties of containers including polymeric drug medication reservoirs and related containers such as infusion set tubing. Embodiments of the invention include aqueous container systems having containers coated with a composition selected to have one or more material properties including an ability to reduce the diffusion or permeation of compounds such as oxygen, carbon dioxide, and preservatives (e.g. phenol, benzyl alcohol and m-cresol) into or through a wall of the container.

Ophthalmically therapeutic materials, such as liquid-containing compositions and polymeric drug delivery systems, include a therapeutic component that includes an Glucocorticoid Derivative which, upon delivery to the posterior segment of a mammalian eye, does not significantly diffuse to the anterior segment of said eye. Methods of making and using the present materials are also described.

A drug conjugate is provided herein. The conjugate comprises a protein based recognition-molecule (PBRM) and a polymeric carrier substituted with one or more -L^D-D, the protein based recognition-molecule being connected to the polymeric carrier by L^P. Each occurrence of D is independently a therapeutic agent having a molecular weight ≦5 kDa. L^D and L^P are linkers connecting the therapeutic agent and PBRM to the polymeric carrier respectively. Also disclosed are polymeric scaffolds useful for conjugating with a PBRM to form a polymer-drug-PBRM conjugate described herein, compositions comprising the conjugates, methods of their preparation, and methods of treating various disorders with the conjugates or their compositions.

The present invention provides bone-targeting polymeric drug delivery systems based on HPMA and related copolymers and methods of making thereof. The water-soluble bone-targeting polymeric conjugates of the present invention comprise water-soluble copolymer backbones (P) which are linked, via a first spacer (S₁), with a bone-related therapeutic agents or drug (D) and, via a second spacer (S₂), with a bone-targeting moiety (T).

A polymeric medical device is constructed from bioabsorbable polymers. The device is constructed from a tube comprised of at least one polymer. The polymer is treated at pre-determined heating and cooling temperatures to obtain a desired morphology. The morphology or arrangement of the polymeric structure ensures that the device maintains its shape characteristics to ensure proper modeling of the vessel. In particular, the crystallinity of the polymeric structure is adjusted so as to resist recoil. The device can also contain a therapeutic agent dispersed throughout the structure or coated on the structure in such a manner as to elute the therapeutic agent when implanted in an anatomical conduit. The device can also be constructed from a blend of polymers and other agents such as plasticizers.

Among other aspects, provided herein is a mixed-acid salt of a water-soluble polymer-drug conjugate, along with related methods of making and using the same. The mixed-salt acid salt is stably formed, and appears to be more resistant to hydrolytic degradation than the corresponding predominantly pure acid salt or free base forms of the polymer-drug conjugate. The mixed acid salt is reproducibly prepared and recovered, and provides surprising advantages over non-mixed acid salt forms of the water-soluble polymer drug conjugate.

The present invention provides one kind of combined polymer-medicine micelle to control the release of hydrophobic medicine. The micelle contains two or more kinds of amphiphilic block copolymer and one or more kinds of hydrophobic medicine. The amphiphilic block copolymer includes hydrophilic segment of copolymer of ethanediol or ethylene epoxide and epoxypropane; and hydrophobic segment selected from biodegradable PDLLA, PDLA, PLGA and PCL or their mixture. The micelle exists in the state of water dispersing liquid or freeze dried powder. The combined poloymer-medicine may be prepared via solid phase melting and dispersing process, solvent evaporating process or dialysis process. The present invention makes it possible to control the release of medicine effectively.

This invention relates to a polymeric pharmaceutical dosage form for the delivery, in use, of at least one pharmaceutical composition in a rate-modulated and site-specific manner. The dosage form comprises a biodegradable, polymeric, scaffold incorporating loaded with at least one active pharmaceutical ingredient (API). The polymer or polymers making up the scaffold degrade in a human or animal body in response to or in the absence of specific biological stimuli and, on degradation, release the API or APIs in an area where said stimuli are encountered. Preferably the polymeric scaffold is formed from poly (D1L-lactide) (PLA) and polymethacrylate (Eudragit S100/ES100) polymers.

The invention discloses an acid sensitive polymer prodrug, nanoparticles of the prodrug and application of the nanoparticles. In the acid sensitive polymer prodrug, a polymer precursor is a vinyl ether-functionalized water-soluble A-B type two-block polymer; drug molecules are linked with the A-B type two-block polymer through an acetal bond; the acid sensitive polymer prodrug is self-assembled in water solution to form predrug micellar nanoparticles in which a polyethylene glycol hydrophilic chain segment serves as an outer surface and an anti-cancer drug bound to a polymer main chain through the acetal bond serves as a hydrophobic core. The pH sensitive prodrug and the nanoparticles of he prodrug are simple in preparation method, and good in tumor inhibitory effect; the nanoparticles also can efficiently encapsulate another hydrophobic anticancer drug; the kill capability to the cancer cell is enhanced; and the efficiency of endocytosis of the cell to the nanoparticles can be enhanced by coupling specific target molecules onto the surfaces of the nanoparticles. Thus, the inhibitory effect on the tumor cell is enhanced.

A polymeric scaffold useful for conjugating with a protein based recognition-molecule (PBRM) to form a PBRM-polymer-drug conjugate is described herein. The scaffold includes one or more terminal maleimido groups. Also disclosed is a PBRM-polymer-drug conjugate prepared from the scaffold. Compositions comprising the conjugates, methods of their preparation, and methods of treating various disorders, such as cancer in a subject having low HER2 expression with the conjugates or their compositions are also described.