- API
Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient
- BCS
Biopharmaceutics Classification System
- BCS Class I
API with high permeability and high solubility
- BCS Class II
API with high permeability and low solubility
- BCS Class III
API with low permeability and high solubility
- BCS Class IV
API with low permeability and low solubility
- Bioavailability
The proportion of a drug or other substance which enters the circulation when introduced into the body and so is able to have an active effect.
- CDMO
Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization
- Excipient
A substance formulated alongside the active ingredient of a medication, included for the purpose of long-term stabilization, bulking up solid formulations that contain potent active ingredients in small amounts, or to confer a therapeutic enhancement on the active ingredient in the final dosage form, such as facilitating drug absorption or enhancing solubility
- GMP
Good Manufacturing Practice
- HPAPI
High Potency Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient
- Paracellular Transport
The transfer of substances across an epithelium by passing through the intercellular space between the cells
- Peptelligence
Innovative and proprietary formulation technology that enables the oral delivery of molecules that are typically injected including peptides and BCS II, III, and IV small molecules
- Peptide
A compound consisting of two or more amino acids linked in a chain
- Small Molecule
A low molecular weight (approximately < 900 daltons) compound
