Choosing the right capsule: how Evonik’s new EUDRACAP ® ready-to-fill capsules boost functional performance

Overview

Evonik is one of the world’s leading formulation development and scale-up partners for oral drug products. Areas of formulation expertise include colonic delivery, microbiome delivery, bioavailability enhancement, and personalized dosage forms for patient groups such as children and the elderly.

We warmly invite you to our launch webinar for EUDRACAP^®, Evonik’s new platform of functional ready-to-fill capsules. Join our experts Dr. Bettina Hölzer and Hans Bär as they explain how these smooth, evenly coated HPMC capsules optimize a drug’s release profile, protect active ingredients, and reduce clinical risk.

As a participant in this webinar you will learn about how EUDRACAP^®
• Addresses challenges in targeted drug delivery
• Allows the use of more active ingredients which are sensitive to heat, moisture or gastric acid
• Leverages Evonik’s established functional coatings EUDRAGIT^®
• Reduces risk and speeds up time to market for early stage drug development
• Provides a flexible range of custom options such as choice of size, color and release profile

Experts featuring this session

Hans Bär
Head of Global Oral Drug Delivery Services
Evonik Health Care
Vita

Hans is responsible for the global project portfolio of Evonik’s oral drug delivery business. He has extensive experience in the use of functional polymers and oral drug delivery technologies to protect the API, improve targeting and boost drug performance.

One core area of expertise is the use of drug delivery technologies for precise colonic targeting. Hans is the author and co-author of several patent applications and a dozen scientific articles and posters about the application and formulation of pharmaceutical applied polymethacrylates for the preparation of oral solid dosage forms.

He has a degree in pharmaceutical process engineering from the Technical University Bingen, and a Master’s in pharmaceutical medicine from the University of Dusiburg-Essen.

Dr. Bettina Hölzer
Senior Project Manager Oral Drug Delivery Solutions
Evonik Health Care
Vita

Dr. Bettina Hoelzer is currently working as Senior Project Manager for oral drug delivery solutions at Evonik. She holds a doctorate in chemistry from the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany and has more than 17 years’ experience in drug development. Prior to joining Evonik in 2017, she held several R&D and project management roles at Teva, Bayer and Dow Chemical where she worked on the development of new drugs and novel excipients for pharma applications.