IFF’s and BASF’s Pharma Solutions divisions have joined forces in a collaboration to onboard IFF’s leading product brands in pharmaceutical excipients on BASF’s Virtual Pharma Assistant platform – ZoomLab. The platform is a science-based digital tool designed to rapidly and accurately predict the best excipients needed for the development of new pharmaceutical formulations to help overcome formulation challenges.

The collaboration between IFF and BASF aligns with the companies’ shared values on customer-centricity and the goal to bring a seamless digital experience to more formulators worldwide. Powered by BASF’s proprietary algorithm, ZoomLab™ allows formulators to accelerate formulation design by predicting the most effective excipients to match a given active pharmaceutical ingredient. It also allows them to make customizations, offering a range of ingredients to choose from – including IFF’s renowned high-quality excipients.

“Our collaboration with IFF aligns well with our commitment to provide exceptional value to our customers through our digital Virtual Pharma Assistants. Including IFF products within ZoomLab underlines our ambition to continuously develop ZoomLab into the leading industry platform giving users access to a broad range of excipients and make it even easier to create formulations quickly,” said Jeffrey DeAlmeida, senior vice president, BASF Pharma Solutions and Nutrition and Health, Americas. “We will continue to deepen our collaboration on ZoomLab in the future including more content and features for users.”

“At IFF, we apply a customer-centric approach to problem-solving throughout the drug development process. We are committed to being the partner our customers can count on, and now – thanks to our exciting collaboration with BASF on ZoomLab – we are helping even more customers innovate and overcome their formulation challenges,” said Angela Strzelecki, president, IFF Pharma Solutions. “The addition of our renowned ingredients into this platform enhances the ability of ZoomLab to predict the best formulations and accelerates the launch of more innovative products across the global pharmaceutical market which is good for manufacturers and patients around the world.”