Formulation Tools for Pharmaceutical Development

Dr. Johnny E. Aguilar is Regional Quality Manager in a major international pharmaceutical company. He has more than 13 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry in a major international pharmaceutical company in Switzerland, Spain and Australia. He was also Professor in the Masters in Business Management of the Pharmaceutical Industry, and in the Program for Specialists in Industrial Pharmacy (FIR), organised by the Spanish Government at the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, at the University of Barcelona, Spain. He is the author or coauthor of more than 20 international scientific papers and co-author of one book on pharmaceutical technology.

Artificial neural networks technology to model, understand, and optimize drug formulations; ME_expert 2.0: A heuristic decision support system for microemulsions formulation development; Expert system for the development and formulation of push-pull osmotic pump tablets containing poorly water- soluble drugs; SeDeM Diagram: An expert system for preformulation, characterization and optimization of tablets obtained by direct compression; New SeDeM-ODT expert system: An expert system for formulation of orodispersible tablets obtained by direct compression; 3-D cellular automata in computer-aided design of pharmaceutical formulations: Mathematical concept and F-CAD software; OXPIRT: Ontology- based eXpert system for Production of a generic Immediate Release Tablet; Optimisation of compression parameters with AI-based mathematical models.