
Simulations Plus Reports FY2017 and Fourth Quarter FY2017 Financial Results
Full Fiscal Year Pharmaceutical Software and Services Revenues Up 20.9%;
Earnings per share of $0.33, up 14.9% over prior year

Ribociclib Bioavailability Is Not Affected by Gastric pH Changes or Food Intake: In Silico and Clinical Evaluations.
Ribociclib (KISQALI®), a cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 inhibitor approved for the first-line treatment of HR+/HER2– advanced breast cancer with an aromatase inhibitor, is administered with...

ADMET Predictor 8.5 Release Notes
Many major enhancements have been made throughout ADMET Predictor for this release.

Intrinsic dissolution simulation of highly and poorly soluble drugs for BCS solubility classification
Intrinsic dissolution testing allows characterizing drug substances through its dissolution rate when exposed to a specified surface area in a specific dissolution media.

ADMET Predictor™ v8.5 Webinar – Discover ‘Discovery PBPK’: Efficiently use PBPK modeling to drive lead selection & optimization
In this video, Michael Lawless discusses how to efficiently screen large compound libraries in minutes based on predicted in vivo fraction absorbed (Fa%) or oral bioavailability (F%) in virtual rats...

GastroPlus® ADMET Predictor Module
This video shows features available in MedChem Designer™ that are available for users that license the ADMET Predictor™ module within GastroPlus™.

Simulations Plus Sets Date for 4th Quarter and Fiscal Year 2017 Earnings Release and Conference Call
Conference Call to be on Tuesday, November 14, at 4:15 PM ET

Robust Uncertainty Estimates for Unbalanced Data Sets
Mathematical models of quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) play a key role in qualifying synthesis ideas, drug candidates and leads.

Combining “Bottom-up” and “Top-down” Approaches to Assess the Impact of Food and Gastric pH on Pictilisib (GDC-0941) Pharmacokinetics
Pictilisib, a weakly basic compound, is an orally administered, potent, and selective pan-inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases for oncology indications.

Investigating Oral Absorption of Carbamazepine in Pediatric Populations
Prediction of the pharmacokinetics of orally administered drugs in children is of importance to optimize the efficacy and safety of pediatricmedicines.

Predictive Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics: Modeling and Simulation
Scientists have made great discoveries concerning human physiology and gained tremendous knowledge during drug development efforts.

Investigating the state of physiologically based kinetic modelling practices and challenges associated with gaining regulatory acceptance of model applications.
Physiologically based kinetic (PBK) models are used widely throughout a number of working sectors, including academia and industry, to provide insight into the dosimetry related to observed adverse...

Effect of the pulmonary deposition and in vitro permeability on the prediction of plasma levels of inhaled budesonide formulation
The growing interest in the inhalable pharmaceutical products requires advanced approaches to safe and fast product development, such as in silico tools that can be used...

Abstract B083: Population pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics for an oral Notch inhibitor, LY3039478, in patients with advanced cancer and healthy volunteers
Background: LY3039478 is an oral Notch inhibitor that prevents release of the Notch Intracellular Domain (NICD) by inhibiting proteolytic activity of the gamma (γ)-secretase complex.

Identification of impurities in macrolides by liquid chromatography–mass spectrometric detection and prediction of retention times of impurities by constructing quantitative structure–retention relationship (QSRR)
Macrolides are multicomponent drugs whose impurity control is always a challenge demanding analysis method with good sensitivity and selectivity.

Industry’s View on Using Quality Control, Biorelevant, and Clinically Relevant Dissolution Tests for Pharmaceutical Development, Registration, and Commercialization.
This article intends to summarize the current views of the IQ Consortium Dissolution Working Group, which comprises various industry companies, on the roles of dissolution testing throughout...

Population Pharmacokinetics (PK) and Exposure-Efficacy Analyses of Nivolumab in Subjects with Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)
Nivolumab is a fully human immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4) monoclonal antibody (mAb) that selectively binds to the programmed death-1 (PD-1) membrane receptor. PD-1 is a negative regulatory molecule expressed...