Long-Acting Drug Delivery

  Long-acting drug delivery has emerged as the novel and advanced drug delivery system which manipulates the dosing regimen of the drug in the body in order to sustain its therapeutic level. Over the last two decades, the pharmaceutical industry has observed a paradigm shift from conventional drug delivery strategies to the long-acting drug delivery of products to treat several disease indications, such as ophthalmic disorders, oncological disorders, neurological disorders and infectious diseases. The long-acting delivery of drug candidates confers several advantages, such as improved patient compliance, reduced dosage requirement, better medication adherence, decrease in failure risk due to inconsistent usage and more convenience to patients. In addition, long-acting drug delivery formulations can improve the chemical stability, solubility and polymorphic transformation issues of the active pharmaceutical ingredients. Lately, many technologies are being explored to develop long-actin