@article{3060969,
    title = "Oral biopharmaceutics tools - Time for a new initiative - An introduction to the IMI project OrBiTo",
    author = "Lennernäs, H. and Aarons, L. and Augustijns, P. and Beato, S. and Bolger, M. and Box, K. and Brewster, M. and Butler, J. and Dressman, J. and Holm, R. and Julia Frank, K. and Kendall, R. and Langguth, P. and Sydor, J. and Lindahl, A. and McAllister, M. and Muenster, U. and Müllertz, A. and Ojala, K. and Pepin, X. and Reppas, C. and Rostami-Hodjegan, A. and Verwei, M. and Weitschies, W. and Wilson, C. and Karlsson, C. and Abrahamsson, B.",
    journal = "EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES",
    year = "2014",
    volume = "57",
    number = "1",
    pages = "292-299",
    publisher = "Elsevier",
    issn = "0928-0987",
    doi = "10.1016/j.ejps.2013.10.012",
    keywords = "active transport;  drug absorption;  drug bioavailability;  drug blood level;  drug delivery system;  drug dosage form;  drug formulation;  drug industry;  drug manufacture;  drug metabolism;  drug penetration;  drug release;  drug solubility;  first pass effect;  food drug interaction;  human;  in vitro study;  intestine absorption;  oral drug administration;  particle size;  priority journal;  process optimization;  product development;  review;  animal;  biological model;  chemistry;  computer simulation;  gastrointestinal tract;  intestine absorption;  medicinal chemistry;  metabolism;  oral drug administration;  permeability;  pharmaceutics;  pharmacokinetics;  procedures;  program development;  solubility, drug;  drug dosage form, Administration, Oral;  Animals;  Biopharmaceutics;  Chemistry, Pharmaceutical;  Computer Simulation;  Dosage Forms;  Gastrointestinal Tract;  Humans;  Intestinal Absorption;  Models, Biological;  Permeability;  Pharmaceutical Preparations;  Pharmacokinetics;  Program Development;  Solubility",
    abstract = "OrBiTo is a new European project within the IMI programme in the area of oral biopharmaceutics tools that includes world leading scientists from nine European universities, one regulatory agency, one non-profit research organization, four SMEs together with scientists from twelve pharmaceutical companies. The OrBiTo project will address key gaps in our knowledge of gastrointestinal (GI) drug absorption and deliver a framework for rational application of predictive biopharmaceutics tools for oral drug delivery. This will be achieved through novel prospective investigations to define new methodologies as well as refinement of existing tools. Extensive validation of novel and existing biopharmaceutics tools will be performed using active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), formulations and supporting datasets from industry partners. A combination of high quality in vitro or in silico characterizations of API and formulations will be integrated into physiologically based in silico biopharmaceutics models capturing the full complexity of GI drug absorption. This approach gives an unparalleled opportunity to initiate a transformational change in industrial research and development to achieve model-based pharmaceutical product development in accordance with the Quality by Design concept. Benefits include an accelerated and more efficient drug candidate selection, formulation development process, particularly for challenging projects such as low solubility molecules (BCS II and IV), enhanced and modified-release formulations, as well as allowing optimization of clinical product performance for patient benefit. In addition, the tools emerging from OrBiTo are expected to significantly reduce demand for animal experiments in the future as well as reducing the number of human bioequivalence studies required to bridge formulations after manufacturing or composition changes. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved."
}