Friends, can you believe it? Pills can actually be “printed” just like photos! On September 4th, the first national 3D printed pharmaceutical production license was issued in Jiangsu, with Nanjing Sanjieji Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd. successfully obtaining the license. This means that China has officially become the second country in the world, after the United States, to realize the industrialization of 3D printed drugs!
Think back to the past when taking medicine meant swallowing identical little white pills, with everyone taking the same formula when sick; now, pills can be “customized” just like a personalized program that works in your body: when to release, how much to release, and where it acts can all be precisely controlled.
Walking into the production workshop feels like a scene from a science fiction movie: the traditional pharmaceutical assembly line has disappeared, replaced by rows of unmanned, digital 3D printers that “draw” the drug materials layer by layer into uniquely structured pills. Even more astonishing is that the annual production capacity here reaches 300 million pills, setting a new global record and becoming the world’s largest commercial 3D printed pharmaceutical base!
Currently, their first product, the anticoagulant Apixaban tablets, has already submitted an application for market approval to the National Medical Products Administration. Once approved, the Chinese public will truly be able to use their own “printed medicine,” marking a significant step towards personalized healthcare.
Behind all this is the “fast track” opened by the Jiangsu Provincial Drug Administration, along with the “nanny-style service” provided by the Jiangning High-tech Zone. It is the combined efforts of many parties that have allowed this “black technology,” which originally existed only in laboratories, to take root in China.
Friends, from today onwards, pills are no longer just little white tablets to swallow, but smart medications that can be customized and precisely controlled for release. This is not only a leap in pharmaceutical technology but also a historic moment for China’s pharmaceutical innovation, moving from “catching up” to “keeping pace”!
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