More new drugs

Improving the whole process time in the drug discovery and drug development is the main goal in the life science industry. The R&D departments are intending to decrease the whole process time, from currently 8 - 10 years to less than 6 years.

Targeting new hits seems to be uncritical by applying high throughput screening procedures. But the chemical synthesis is still the bottleneck. This can be achieved by implementation of innovative technology for production processes.

The solution is simple: numbering-up instead of scale-up. The smart formula for shorter drug development time and higher throughput.

Conventional scale-up is a time-consuming and tedious procedure. By using CYTOS^® Lab System, the second generation of modular microreactor system, scale-up procedure is not an issue anymore. By applying parallized arrays of microreactor, the same process developed in a microreactor can be applied to manufacture pilot-plant quantities.