About

Stephen Rode is Manager of Business Development for Lonza’s Capsules and Health Ingredients group. He received his BS in Agronomy from Pennsylvania State University, US, and a GBA in Executive Management from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. With more than 31 years of industry experience, Mr Rode has worked with many top pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare companies. In addition to sales and business development responsibilities, he has actively participated on various internal capsule development teams.

Contributions

GI/ORAL

REMOVING CLINICAL TRIAL BIAS WITH OVER-ENCAPSULATION

Frédérique Bordes-Picard, Julien Lamps and Stephen Rode discuss the considerations to take into account when using over-encapsulation to blind clinical trials, including the advantages of hydroxypropyl methylcellulose over gelatin as a material.

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ROUNDTABLE

ROUNDTABLE: JEREMY DRUMMOND, MEDPHARM; STEPHEN RODE, LONZA; AND TORKEL GREN, RECIPHARM

In this roundtable discussion, Jeremy Drummond, Stephen Rode and Torkel Gren discuss trends with different drug dosage forms for different routes of administration, the rise of patient centricity including the shift from the blockbuster model to more tailored products.