Controlling ice nucleation during lyophilization: process optimization of vacuum-induced surface freezing

Abstract: Biopharmaceuticals are often lyophilized to improve their storage stability. Controlling ice nucleation during the freezing step of the lyophilization process is desired to increase homogeneity of product properties across a drug product batch and shorten the primary drying time. The present communication summarizes the process optimization of the freezing process when using vacuum-induced surface freezing to control ice nucleation, in particular for amorphous samples. We characterized freeze-dried samples for solid state properties, and compared these to uncontrolled nucleated samples using bovine serum albumin (BSA) as a model protein. Freezing parameters were optimized to obtain complete nucleation, adequate cake resistance during the subsequent lyophilization cycle, and elegant cakes. We highlight the challenges associated with vacuum-induced surface freezing and propose optimized freezing parameters to control ice nucleation, enabling manufacturing of amorphous samples

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Processes. - 8, 10 (2020) , 1263, ISSN: 2227-9717

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Freiburg
(wer)
Universität
(wann)
2021
Urheber
Allmendinger, Andrea Martina
Butt, Yuen Li
Mietzner, Raphael
Schmidt, Felix
Lümkemann, Jörg
Lema Martinez, Carmen

DOI
10.3390/pr8101263
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-1949282
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