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3D PRINTING PHARMACEUTICAL FORMULATION OF DRUGS IN PERSONALIZED THERAPY

DOINA DRĂGĂNESCU 1, DUMITRU LUPULIASA 2, GEORGE TRAIAN ALEXANDRU BURCEA DRAGOMIROIU 3, ADRIAN COSMIN ROȘCA 4, LUCIAN HÎNCU 5*, DANIELA CIOACĂ 5

1.“Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Physics and Informatics, 6 Traian Vuia Street, 020956, Bucharest, Romania
2.“Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics, 6 Traian Vuia Street, 020956, Bucharest, Romania
3.“Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Drug Control, 6 Traian Vuia Street, 020956, Bucharest, Romania
4.“Ovidius” University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Drug Control, 6 Văpitan Av. Al. Șerbănescu Street, Constanța, Romania
5.“Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Drug Industry and Pharmaceutical Biotechnologies, 6 Traian Vuia Street, 020956, Bucharest, Romania

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3D printing offers the key for manufacturing new pharmaceutical forms and devices with complex structures and geometry that meet individual needs of patients, improving compliance, accessibility and affordability of medicines. Also, due to 3D printing technologies, on demand fabrication of pharmaceutical products in critical situations may be an easy task in the future. In this review we focused on the main 3D printing technologies, 3D printers and 3D software platforms widely used at present. Also, we discuss the most important achievements that have been obtained lately using 3D printing in the pharmaceutical field.