This document provides basic information for the pharmaceutical development, and non-clinical and early clinical studies of block-copolymer micelle drug products created to affect pharmacokinetics, stability and distribution of incorporated or conjugated active substances in vivo. It is a joint reflection paper of the Ministry for Health, Labour and Welfare and the European Medicines Agency.
Keywords: Block copolymer micelles, nanomedicines, non-clinical, first-in-human studies, drug development