AUTHOR=Clark Andrew R. TITLE=Half a Century of Technological Advances in Pulmonary Drug Delivery: A Personal Perspective JOURNAL=Frontiers in Drug Delivery VOLUME=2 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/drug-delivery/articles/10.3389/fddev.2022.871147 DOI=10.3389/fddev.2022.871147 ISSN=2674-0850 ABSTRACT=

The last half century of pulmonary product development is reviewed in the context of the main drivers of innovation, technology development, and the advancement of science. A perspective on development timeframes, patent lifetimes, and the odds of success of developing of new inhaler technologies is presented.