Evonik
Friday, March 20, 2026

Two paths to parenteral drug product success - Polymers vs. lipid-based formulations for next-generation and generic therapeutics

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In today’s competitive pharmaceutical landscape, formulation teams are under increasing pressure to advance their parenteral drug products. They must balance the selection of the best drug delivery technology with timelines, manufacturability, performance, patient safety, and regulatory success. Among the most powerful formulation strategies available are two long-established drug delivery platforms: long-acting injectables based on bioabsorbable lactide/glycolide polymers - such as RESOMER® and LACTEL® - and liposomes and nanoparticles based on lipid excipients. Both drug delivery technologies, with already proven success on the market, offer unique advantages, challenges, pathways to differentiation and clinical success.

In this online session, experts from Evonik will compare these parenteral drug delivery platforms. You’ll gain a clearer understanding of where each platform excels, how drug property requirements differ, what development considerations matter most, and how Evonik’s end-to-end expertise can help you select the optimal path to developing a successful drug product.

While the webinar is not intended to provide generic-specific development strategies, it will help you recognize those formulation principles that can be leveraged to develop your drug product whether it’s a generic or new drug product.

Experts

Dr. Thomas R. Tice
Senior Director Technical Global Strategic and Technical Marketing
Evonik Health Care

Vita
Thomas Tice is internationally recognized for his research and product development of complex parenteral, drug delivery dosage forms based on bioabsorbable polymer excipients. He is known for his accomplishments involving injectable, extended-release microparticles made with bioabsorbable lactide/glycolide polymers designed for systemic and local drug delivery. He was a team leader and core inventor to develop the first commercial, injectable, extended-release microparticle product. This product, a one-month LHRH formulation indicated for the treatment of prostate cancer (Decapeptyl® SR), is still on the market today. He has also served on various US Pharmacopeia expert committees for 17 years, and is currently on the General Chapters Dosage Forms Expert Committee and Excipient Joint Committee.

At Evonik, Dr. Tice, provides scientific support to Evonik’s innovation, sales, product development, research, intellectual property and M&A teams. He earned his BSc in Chemistry and PhD in Biophysics from Syracuse University, New York. He held a postdoctoral fellow position at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in Microbiology. He holds 48 US patents with many foreign equivalents and has more than 180 publications, presentations, and invited lectures to his credit. He flew experiments on two Space Shuttle flights.
Dr. Sophie Hammer
Senior Manager Strategic & Technical Marketing Parenteral Drug Delivery
Evonik Health Care

Vita
Sophie Hammer specializes in advanced lipid excipients, liposomes, and lipid nanoparticle (LNP) technologies for parenteral and RNA‑based drug delivery. In her role, she focuses on technical assessments and strategic collaborations to advance the development of innovative mRNA-based medicines.

She is a frequent speaker at nanomedicine and RNA‑focused scientific conferences, presenting on novel excipient innovations such as randomized PEGs and next‑generation lipid systems that enhance stability, targeting, and immunogenicity profiles in LNP formulations.

Dr. Hammer holds a diploma in biomedical chemistry and a PhD in polymer chemistry from the University of Mainz in Germany. She is a co-author of multiple peer-reviewed publications.
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Details

Seminar language:
English

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