In The News...

June 2008
IPI Awarded Funding by University of Kansas to Analyze the Use of Extemporaneously Prepared Medicines in Children’s Hospitals

February 14, 2008
ClinPage
Reformulation Research -
Tailoring Drugs for Kids

January 28, 2008
Boston Globe
Project to reformulate children's medicine launched - A Cambridge nonprofit formed to improve medical products for children is introducing a new program today to develop safer pediatric medicines, naming the former dean of Dartmouth Medical School to lead the initiative.

January 28, 2008
PRESS RELEASE
Dr. Stephen Spielberg Joins Institute for Pediatric Innovation to Launch Pediatric Pharmaceutical Reformulation Program, Funded by Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics

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Events:

June 23-24, 2008
IPI/USP Pediatric Drug Reformulation Conference:
in collaboration with the United State Pharmacopoeia, Rockville, MD [details]

IPI seeks to improve pediatric care by stimulating development of medical products and medications designed specifically for babies and children. We do this through public, private, nonprofit, and for-profit collaboration on product innovation.

IPI Programs:

• The IPI Pediatric Hospital Consortium helps identify needs for new products that are optimized for care of children.
• The IPI Pediatric Pharmaceutical Reformulation Program will develop a portfolio of drug products with delivery forms optimized for children.
• In the NICU Needs Analysis, the Hospital Consortium has collaborated to identify needs for medical devices for neonatal care
• The Pediatric Pharmacy Technology Program is evaluating whether hospital pharmacy processes for preparing individualized liquid oral doses for inpatients can be better automated.
• A Pediatric Cardiology Needs Analysis has been launched to determine what products need to be created or adapted for optimal pediatric cardiac care.

2007 IPI Annual Report

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