Stable formulations for lyophilizing therapeutic particles

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9872848-B2
Application number	US-201615296350-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 18, 2016
Priority date	Dec 11, 2009
Publication date	Jan 23, 2018
Grant date	Jan 23, 2018

Abstract

The present disclosure generally relates to lyophilized pharmaceutical compositions comprising polymeric nanoparticles which, upon reconstitution, have low levels of greater than 10 micron size particles. Other aspects of the invention include methods of making such nanoparticles.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A lyophilized pharmaceutical composition comprising:
polymeric nanoparticles that comprises a poly(lactic) acid-block-poly(ethylene)glycol copolymer or poly(lactic)-co-poly(glycolic) acid-block-poly(ethylene)glycol copolymer, and a therapeutic agent, wherein the polymeric nanoparticles have a diameter of about 60 nm to about 140 nm;
a sugar; and
hydroxypropyl β-cyclodextrin,
wherein upon reconstitution of the lyophilized pharmaceutical composition in an aqueous medium, the reconstituted composition comprises 10-100 mg/mL concentration of the nanoparticles; 4 to 6 weight percent of the sugar; and 7 to 12 weight percent of the hydroxypropyl β-cyclodextrin, and wherein 100 mL of the reconstituted composition comprises less than 6000 microparticles of greater than or equal to 10 microns; and less than 600 microparticles of greater than or equal to 25 microns.

2. The lyophilized pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 , wherein 100 mL of the reconstituted composition comprises:
less than 3000 microparticles having a size greater than or equal to 10 microns; and
less than 300 microparticles having a size greater than or equal to 25 microns.

3. The lyophilized pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 , wherein the polymeric nanoparticles have a diameter of about 60 nm to about 120 nm.

4. The lyophilized pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 , wherein the polymeric nanoparticles have a diameter of about 70 nm to about 130 nm.

5. The lyophilized pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 , wherein the therapeutic agent is a taxane agent.

6. The lyophilized pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 , wherein the nanoparticles comprise a poly(lactic) acid-block-poly(ethylene)glycol copolymer.

7. The lyophilized pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 , wherein the reconstituted composition has a nanoparticle concentration of about 40-60 mg/mL.

8. The lyophilized pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 , wherein the poly(lactic) acid portion of the copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of about 16 kDa and the poly(ethylene)glycol portion of the copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of about 5 kDa.

9. The lyophilized pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 , wherein the therapeutic agent is an anti-cancer agent.

10. The lyophilized pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 , wherein the therapeutic agent is docetaxel.

11. The lyophilized pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 , wherein the sugar comprises a disaccharide.

12. The lyophilized pharmaceutical composition of claim 11 , wherein the disaccharide is sucrose or trehalose, or a mixture thereof.

13. The lyophilized pharmaceutical composition of claim 12 , wherein the disaccharide is sucrose.

14. The lyophilized pharmaceutical composition of- claim 11 , wherein the disaccharide is trehalose.

15. The lyophilized pharmaceutical composition of claim 11 , wherein the reconstituted composition comprises about 5 weight percent of disaccharide and about 10 weight percent hydrxoypropyl β-cyclodextrin.

16. The lyophilized pharmaceutical composition of claim 11 , wherein the reconstituted composition has minimal aggregation compared to a reconstituted composition that does not contain a cyclodextrin.

17. The lyophilized pharmaceutical composition of claim 1 , wherein the reconstituted composition has a polydispersity index of less than 0.2.

Assignees

• Pfizer

Inventors

• Troiano Greg
• Song Young-Ho
• Zale Stephen E
• Wright James
• Van Geen Hoven Christina

Classifications

• A61P35/00

  Antineoplastic agents · CPC title

• Y10S977/906

  Drug delivery · CPC title

• A61K9/5192

  Processes · CPC title

• A61K31/337 Primary

  having four-membered rings, e.g. taxol · CPC title

• A61K31/335

  having oxygen as the only ring hetero atom, e.g. fungichromin · CPC title