2017 Volume 32 Issue 2 Pages 143-148
Drug Delivery System (DDS) has been utilized in drug development since before and the various DDS compounds were developed in a variety of therapeutic areas. So far three Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) compounds were launched in oncology field and a lot of new ADC compounds are under developing. Also novel DDS compounds applied by the state-of-the-art technology are being investigated globally, therefore the development competition would be continuing. NanoCarrier Co., Ltd. researches and develops new anticancer drugs utilizing the micellar nanoparticles technology. Three compounds are in clinical phase. In this article the characteristics of clinical development of the novel micellar compounds would be summarized based on my experiences.