Close to 40% of the currently marketed drugs fall into the two low solubility Biopharmaceutical Classification System (BCS) categories; furthermore, if looking at the pipeline of drug entities under discovery or in development, this number increases to 80%. This trend towards low solubility will see the market for solubility enhancement excipients grow at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 13% in the period from 2014 to 2024.1 And the overall pharmaceutical excipients market is expected to be valued at $8.43 billion by 2019, up from $5.76 billion in 2013.2
SPECIAL FEATURE - Excipients: Enhancing the New, Highly Soluble APIs