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Industry-funded project aims to streamline production of personalized medications<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

by Clara Turnage<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

University of Mississippi <\/strong>researchers are working to\u00a0develop an artificial intelligence-powered guide to help pharmacies produce 3D-printed medications through a new agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The international company\u00a0Colorcon<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>partnered with\u00a0Ole Miss<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0researcher\u00a0Mo Maniruzzaman<\/strong> to create a learning algorithm that can help pharmacists and drug manufacturers use 3D printing more easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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University of Mississippi doctoral student Sujith Bashetty places a powdered material into an extruder, a machine that compresses ingredients into a filament that can be used as the ‘ink’ in a 3D printer. An Ole Miss research team is working to develop an artificial intelligence-powered guide that pharmacies can use to print personalized medications. Photo by Kevin Bain\/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“Essentially, we’re creating a bank of information, a reference book for drug manufacturing,” said Maniruzzaman, chair and professor of pharmaceutics and drug delivery<\/a>. “Creating this AI database will be really useful \u2013 not just for Colorcon \u2013 but for similar companies and even pharma giants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“They could easily adopt this kind of platform for their own discovery pipeline and leverage our findings to solve problems.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every medication includes two kinds of components: active ingredients such as acetaminophen in pain-relievers; and inactive ingredients such as the binders, fillers, coloring agents and coating materials that hold a pill together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not all inactive ingredients can pair with every active ingredient, meaning each time a drug is manufactured, the researchers behind it must ensure that the medication’s ingredients do not interfere with one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Powdered excipients \u2013 all the nonactive ingredients in medication \u2013 form the base of filaments used to 3D print medication. Photo by Kevin Bain\/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Maniruzzaman and his lab will create an AI-powered database that can pair the correct inactive ingredients to print whatever medication is needed. This database could pave the way for the widespread use of 3D-printed medication in pharmacies, the researchers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The problem with the conventional dosage form is that the conventional dosage forms are not personalized to the patient,” said Kshitij Chitnis, a third-year doctoral student in pharmaceutics and drug delivery and a member of Maniruzzaman’s lab. “It would be a difficult thing for the industry to make personalized drugs traditionally.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using a 3D printer, however, would allow pharmacists to tailor medication to the patient’s needs, such as creating a smaller capsule or pill for a child or even creating a timed-release capsule that delivers medication when the patient needs it<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the biggest roadblocks to implementing 3D-printed medication on a large scale is the need for pharmacists to learn how to operate the printers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An AI tool that can select which inactive materials, called excipients, pair best with a drug and tell the printer what to make would streamline that process, said Sujith raj Bashetty<\/strong>, a third-year doctoral student in pharmaceutics and drug delivery and a member of the lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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University of Mississippi doctoral students Kshitij Chitnis (left) and Sujith Bashetty hold a filament that serves as the ‘ink’ for 3D-printed medication. They are part of an Ole Miss research team that is working to develop an artificial intelligence-powered guide that pharmacies can use to print personalized medications. Photo by Kevin Bain\/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“Here we are paving the pathway for scalable and regulated 3D-printed medication,” he said. “If we successfully use industrial-grade excipients, we can reduce the burden of large scalability, and if we can print on-demand medication in pharmacies, that will save millions of dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are aiming to bridge the advanced manufacturing gap with scalable pharmaceutical development and enabling the future of personalized, high-performance drug delivery.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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