We are devoted of providing services to Animal Heath companies in the research and development of new treatments for animal welfare. Most part of veterinary medicines have been previously marketed for human use and the regulatory quality requirements are mostly the same. As a result a biopharmaceutical background is a crucial point to provide the best analytical support to veterinary companies.
We have been involved from the company foundation in veterinary product development. The experience acquired during these years in analytical development not only covers drug substances and drug products, but medicinal premixes and feed for animal nutrition. We may provide also regulatory advise in study design and support during the submission procedures.
We are a very experienced company in bioanalysis. We have developed and validated plenty of methods for residue depletion studies and bioequivalence studies. A lot of different species and matrixes have been tested. However KYMOS may offer full preclinical studies with its strategic partners, CLINOBS for livestock and ISOQUIMEN for pets.
Chemistry, Manufacturing & Control analytical services are conducted under GMP compliance. During development phases may be executed under GLP if it is a Client's requirement.
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The release of a biosimilar product into the market is extremely challanging. By one hand only a very well equiped laboratory may have the cappabilities to afford such activity, ensuring purity, identity, and potency. By the other hand GMP certificate and manufacturing authorization should be available at testing site, which is subject to periodic inspection of regulatory bodies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Working with biologic drugs represents a huge analytical effort to deeply understand the whole molecule characteristics. Different methods and technologies are needed to get the analytical fingerprint. An extensive analytical characterization based on an ortogonal approach is a key element for the project success. We can afford complex characterization projects of innovative biologics or biosimilars comparison.
The devices used for inhaled and nasal drug delivery are collectively referred to as Orally Inhaled and Nasal Drug Products (OINDPs). The range of products available is broad, encompassing inhalers (metereddose, dry powder and aqueous droplet), nebulisers (jet, ultrasonic and vibrating mesh) and nasal (aqueous based, dry powder and propellant based). Two of the main factors largely recognised as Critical Quality Attributes in the testing of OINDPs are delivered dose and particle size.
In recent years, the pharmaceutical industry has developed a better understanding of the impact of extractables and leachables on patient safety and drug product interaction, leading to increased scrutiny by the regulators. A study should be conducted to determine the extractables profile from the container closure components that are in contact with the formulation during storage and/or use.
We have a wide experience in performing analytical tests for APIs, excipients, intermediate products, finished products, packaging materials and process environment samples. The most suitable method is used, according to customer specifications or the relevant Pharmacopoeias description (EP, USP, BP, JP). If non-compendial methods should be used, we perform the method development and validation from scratch or the method transfer from the manufacturer.
We have a comprehensive knowledge in the development and validation of analytical proprietary and non-proprietary methods for excipients, APIs, intermediate products and finished products, according to the ICH Q2 (R1) in line with Q6A and Q6B. Our methods are ready for transfer to contract-giver, in compliance with EU-GMP chapter 6, performing a comparative test, a co-validation in two sites or a revalidation.
We provide microbiological testing for sterile and non-sterile APIs and drug products. A fully-equiped laboratory is available including a cleanroom with airlock tecnology and HEPA filters for the most sensitive operations. A 4 gloves isolator ISOFLEX-S is equiped with a Steritest pump and a H2O2 generator. The main advantage of using isolation technology for sterility testing is to assure that non-false positive results are obtained.
Both laboratories, KYMOS and PHARMAPROGRESS are GMP certified and we have a partial manufacturer authorization for Quality Control purposes. We offer the following services:
We provide services of Elemental Impurities Analysis by ICP-MS according to ICH Q3D and European Pharmacopoeia and USP General Chapters <232>, <233> and <2232> for drug substances, excipients and drug products, including the 24 elements related in the ICH Q3D guideline and/or others.
We may suport you in the development of potency assay of vaccines for quality control in order to substitute "in vivo" testing. We are able to perform the development and validation of a new method from scratch or improving previous existing methods or commercial kits. We can transfer these methods to your lab or keep it in house to provide you routine quality control of batches under GMP.
Revised monographs in the European Pharmacopoeia on heparin sodium (0333) and heparin calcium (0332) are in force from January 1st, 2015. These monographs include chromogenic assays of anti-factor IIa and anti-factor Xa activities. USP monograph for Heparin sodium had been previously updated.
We have implemented and validated these challenging assays according to USP monograph and are ready to be used for drug product and drug substance. However, personalized method adjustments are necessary in a case by case basis.
Cleaning validation is a relevant GMP activity to prevent contamination of biopharmaceutical products by ensuring that the processing equipment is suitable for following manufacturing processes. Potential contaminants include residues of the active pharmaceutical ingredients or their related substances, and residues from the products used during the cleaning process such as solvents or detergents. This is particullary important for highly-sensitizing compounds such as antibiotics, hormones and cytotoxics and in the case of parenteral drug products.
Chemistry, Manufacturing & Control analytical services are conducted under GMP compliance. During development phases may be executed under GLP if it is a Client's requirement.
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In biological substances coming from preclinical and clinical studies, we have a long track record in development and validation of bioanalytical methods from scratch or working with transferred methods. In addition we have a high capacity of sample processing. For the determination of plasma or serum levels of biologics for PK calculations, we mostly work with immunology methods such as ELISA, ECLA or RIA, but we also have experience in mass spectrometry of large molecules.
We develop new bioanalytical methods for immunogenicity studies of proteins and peptides following EMA and FDA guidelines on Immunogenicity of Therapeutic Proteins. Depending on the purpose and the stage of the research project, different studies should be performed:
We offer bioanalytical method development and validation of innovative small molecules by mass spectrometry. We have the experience of being the selected partner for different companies for the development of proprietary methods from the start-up of a project to the market.
We have a high capacity of sample processing up to 10.000 per month.
We offer services of pharmacokinetics calculations and statistics of bioanalytical data coming from preclinical and clinical studies.
We use the Phoenix WinNonlin® software that has been properly validated according to guidelines for IT system validation.
We offer method validation and sample analysis of pharmacokinetics, residue depletion studies and bioequivalence studies in animals. Full studies management can be performed with Kymos’ strategic partners for animal housing and preclinical experimentation: ISOQUIMEN for pets and CLINOBS for livestock.
We have wide experience in the development of the more common drugs in animal health, such as antibiotics, antihelmintics and antinflamatory drugs. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE LIST OF VALIDATED BIOANALYTICAL METHODS.
We offer you our experience in studies of Percutaneous Absorption for topical semisolid drug products using vertical diffusion cells (o Franz cells) according to Chapter <725> of the Pharmacopeial Forum. Both In Vitro Release Test and In Vitro Permeation Test are offered:
