{"id":11469,"date":"2024-06-20T11:18:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T11:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/?p=11469"},"modified":"2024-06-24T08:03:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T08:03:48","slug":"expanded-irish-facility-supports-production-of-essential-materials-for-advancing-drug-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/life-sciences\/expanded-irish-facility-supports-production-of-essential-materials-for-advancing-drug-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanded Irish facility supports production of essential materials for advancing drug delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"background-color:#f2f2f2;color:#32373c\" class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-profile-box round ab-has-avatar ab-font-size-14 ab-block-profile ab-profile-columns\"><div class=\"ab-profile-column ab-profile-avatar-wrap\"><div class=\"ab-profile-image-wrap\"><figure class=\"ab-profile-image-square\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"ab-profile-avatar wp-image-11470\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2024\/06\/07205757\/Sean-mcmahon-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2024\/06\/07205757\/Sean-mcmahon-headshot.jpg 400w, https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2024\/06\/07205757\/Sean-mcmahon-headshot-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ab-profile-column ab-profile-content-wrap\"><h2 class=\"ab-profile-name\" style=\"color:#32373c\">Se\u00e1n McMahon, PhD<\/h2><p class=\"ab-profile-title\" style=\"color:#32373c\">Global Business Manager, Bioresorbable Polymers, Life Sciences, Ashland<\/p><div class=\"ab-profile-text\"><\/div><ul class=\"ab-social-links\"><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bioresorbable polymers are critical to patient care, enabling long-acting injectables that provide extended-release of medication. These help boost therapy compliance, enhance therapeutic efficacy and reduce dosing frequency requirements. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashland.com\/innovation\/innovation-day-2023\/bioresorbable-polymers?utm_source=Irish+Independent+&amp;utm_medium=Advertisement&amp;utm_campaign=PHA24+EU+ADV+Irish+Independent+Viatel+06242024&amp;utm_id=PHA24+EU+ADV+Irish+Independent+Viatel+06242024&amp;utm_content=24+June+advertorial+article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ashland Viatel<sup>TM<\/sup> bioresorbable polymers<\/a> play a crucial role in the fabrication of degradable medical devices, including sutures, orthopaedic implants and biodegradable \u2018scaffolds\u2019 for cell growth to regenerate tissue.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"healt-1973096767\"><div class=\"healt-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><div id=\"healt-2380062534\" style=\"margin-top: 30px;margin-bottom: 30px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashland.com\/?utm_source=irish-independent-article-viatel&#038;utm_medium=banner&#038;utm_campaign=PHA24-EU-ADV-Irish-Independent-Viatel-06242024\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Ashland 2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2024\/06\/07205752\/Ashland-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2024\/06\/07205752\/Ashland-2.jpg 1563w, https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2024\/06\/07205752\/Ashland-2-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2024\/06\/07205752\/Ashland-2-1536x512.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1563px) 100vw, 1563px\" width=\"750\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-emerging-centre-for-bioresorbable-polymers\"><strong>Emerging centre for bioresorbable polymers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ashland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashland.com\/?utm_source=irish-independent-article-viatel&amp;utm_medium=banner&amp;utm_campaign=PHA24-EU-ADV-Irish-Independent-Viatel-06242024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a global additives and specialty ingredients company<\/a>, has launched seven innovative technology platforms including this bioresorbable polymers platform. The company is supporting substantial market growth via the recently expanded facility located in Mullingar&#8217;s National Science Park, a biomedical hub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur scientists carefully tune bioresorbable polymers for desired performance in terms of degradation and physical properties, creating huge application potential across the medical field from enhancing treatment of chronic diseases to supporting a new age of tissue regeneration. The Mullingar site is pivotal for developing and manufacturing these materials,&#8221; says Se\u00e1n McMahon, Ph.D., global business manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Our scientists carefully tune bioresorbable <br>polymers for desired performance in terms <br>of degradation and physical properties.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-long-acting-function\"><strong>Long-acting function<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>McMahon explains: \u201cOne way our pharma customers use our bioresorbable polymers is to incorporate a drug compound into the polymer to form a long-acting drug depot. The depot is injected into patients and safely biodegrades while slowly releasing the drug over a programmed duration, such as one to six months.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is particularly relevant to serious chronic illnesses that remain the leading cause of death in many countries. These depots reduce injection frequency and help patients stay in compliance to realise greater treatment benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"healt-3810186643\"><div class=\"healt-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><div id=\"healt-1184485842\" style=\"margin-top: 30px;margin-bottom: 30px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashland.com\/?utm_source=irish-independent-article-viatel&#038;utm_medium=banner&#038;utm_campaign=PHA24-EU-ADV-Irish-Independent-Viatel-06242024\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Ashland 2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2024\/06\/07205752\/Ashland-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2024\/06\/07205752\/Ashland-2.jpg 1563w, https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2024\/06\/07205752\/Ashland-2-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2024\/06\/07205752\/Ashland-2-1536x512.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1563px) 100vw, 1563px\" width=\"750\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-embracing-diversity\"><strong>Embracing diversity<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Focusing on precision chemistry, the solvers in Mullingar produce, purify and test polymers helping ensure quality and control. These chemistries offer great potential to solve some of medicine&#8217;s most complex delivery needs, including new routes of administration, tissue targeting and cellular delivery. &#8220;Custom polymer synthesis is probably the site\u2019s most strategic capability because drug formulators are facing new excipient needs,&#8221; concludes McMahon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashland.com\/?utm_source=irish-independent-article-viatel&amp;utm_medium=banner&amp;utm_campaign=PHA24-EU-ADV-Irish-Independent-Viatel-06242024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ashland<\/a> has expanded its team by tapping into Ireland&#8217;s biomedical talent pool, and the Mullingar location is central to achieving the expansion. The facility has a fantastic workplace culture driven by a dynamic diverse team of people recruited globally.<\/p>\n\n\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><div style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-button ab-block-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashland.com\/?utm_source=irish-independent-article-viatel&amp;utm_medium=banner&amp;utm_campaign=PHA24-EU-ADV-Irish-Independent-Viatel-06242024\" class=\"ab-button ab-button-shape-rounded ab-button-size-medium fb-pixel\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color:#60cbd6\">Click here to learn more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bioresorbable polymers are critical to patient care, enabling long-acting injectables that provide extended-release of medication. These help boost therapy compliance, enhance therapeutic efficacy and reduce dosing frequency requirements. 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