Pet owners also often face significant challenges in administering medicine to their pets. If a pill tastes or smells unappealing, pets simply refuse it, resulting in missed or inconsistent doses.
Curablend® Vet solves this challenge with a flavored, chewable gel tablet designed to look, feel, and taste like a treat. This new veterinary excipient system enables 3D-printed, palatable, and personalized medicines for pets.
Launched by CurifyLabs, a company that specializes in 3D printing for compounded medications, this solution is built for use with the CurifyLabs Compounding System Solution (CSS).
Addressing challenges faced by veterinarians
Veterinarians often lack dosage-specific medicines, forcing pharmacists to manually manipulate human drug products or prepare ad-hoc formulations. Such methods can be labor-intensive and introduce variability. Curablend Vet addresses these with a standardized, automated, and digitally documented 3D-printing workflow.
In a study with 31 dogs and 38 cats, the flavored Curablend Vet tablets were voluntarily consumed by a large majority of animals, whereas unflavored tablets were frequently rejected.
“Pet owners want medication time to be simple, not stressful,” said Charlotta Topelius, CEO and Founder of CurifyLabs. “Curablend Vet gives pharmacists a reliable way to make pet-friendly medicines that animals actually want to eat.”
As a reminder, CurifyLabs’ 3D-printing technology supports hospitals and pharmacies across the U.S. and Europe in the preparation of personalized medicines for humans.
The platform replaces many manual steps with automated precision, allowing pharmacists to produce safer, more consistent doses in minutes. That same breakthrough system now supports veterinarians and pharmacists that want a more predictable, science-driven way to prepare medications for animals.
With Curablend Vet, pharmacists can:
- Make soft, flavored gel tablets that pets accept more easily
- Adjust the dose for each animal
- Package tablets individually for convenience and safety
- Use the same automated, quality-controlled workflow already trusted in human medicine
“We know how important pets are to families,” Topelius added. “And we’re proud that Curablend Vet now brings the benefits of trusted 3D-printed medicine to veterinary care.”
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