Global Hydrogel-based Drug Delivery System Market Size By Polymer Origin (Natural, Synthetic, Hybrid), By Route (Subcutaneous, Ocular, and Oral Cavity), By Geographic Scope And Forecast

Hydrogel-based Drug Delivery System Market Size And Forecast

Hydrogel-based Drug Delivery System Market size was valued at USD 4.9 Billion in 2023 and is projected to reach USD 10.8 Billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 5.9% during the forecasted period from 2024 to 2030.

Benefits such as restricted delivery as well as targeted release along with increased drug delivery capacity are the various inputs that are estimated to contribute to the market expansion of drug-based drug delivery systems. In addition, due to its exceptional physical properties, hydrogel has been a hopeful drug delivery system. Rising shares of R&D-related drug delivery systems are expected to drive the market. The Global Hydrogel-based Drug Delivery System Market report provides a holistic evaluation of the market. The report offers a comprehensive analysis of key segments, trends, drivers, restraints, competitive landscape, and factors that are playing a substantial role in the market.

Global Hydrogel-based Drug Delivery System Market Definition

Hydrogels are a mainly appealing type of drug delivery system and had been used in lots of branches of medicine, which include cardiology, oncology, immunology, wound recovery, and ache management. Hydrogels are composed of a massive quantity of water and a cross-linked polymer network. Hydrogel delivery systems can leverage therapeutically useful results of drug delivery and have observed clinical use. Hydrogels can offer spatial and temporal control over the discharge of diverse therapeutic agents, which include small-molecule capsules, macromolecular capsules, and cells. Thus, owing to their tunable physical properties, controllable degradability, and capability to protect labile capsules from degradation, hydrogels serve as a platform wherein diverse physiochemical interactions with the encapsulated capsules control their release.

Moreover, hydrogels can mask the sour flavor and smell of pharmaceuticals. Thus, hydrogels have a great potential for application through oral, nasal, buccal, rectal, vaginal, eye, injection, and different management routes. When the hydrogel is injected or transplanted into an organism, it can maintain the effective and managed release of an embedded drug into body fluids. Hydrogels can also deliver oxygen to the wound to stimulate epithelial cell growth and the proliferation of fresh capillaries and to protect the wound from bacterial injury, inhibit bacterial growth, and thus promote general wound healing.

Global Hydrogel-based Drug Delivery System Market Overview

Hydrogels help to control the release of the incorporated drug spatially and temporally. Therefore, the surging demand for controlled releases drug delivery system throughout many healing areas is a key component anticipated to contribute to marketplace growth during the forecast period. The healing effects of many lipophilic drugs are restrained because of a variety of troubles which includes bad solubility, bad dispersion, lack of uniformity, bad dissolution, low bioavailability, and shortage of in vivo stability. However, while those drugs are uploaded to a hydrogel system, the above defects may be improved to a few extents, resulting in solubilization, sustained release or controlled release outcomes, and enhanced stability and bioactivity. In addition, growing funding and investment by leading pharma agencies in R&D activities searching for a new drug, delivery systems, and diagnostic is one of the most important factors anticipated to drive the marketplace for hydrogel-based drug delivery systems during forecasted years.

However, the compatibility trouble with a small variety of medicines, excessive rate of hydrogel, and low-down mechanical power are the factors, expected to hamper the development of the marketplace, in the extended period.

Global Hydrogel-based Drug Delivery System MarketSegmentation Analysis

The Global Hydrogel-based Drug Delivery System Market is segmented based on Polymer Origin, Route, and Geography.

Hydrogel-based Drug Delivery System Market, By Polymer Origin

• Natural
• Synthetic
• Hybrid

Based on Polymer Origin, the market is further segmented into Natural, Synthetic, Hybrid. In 2020, the natural segment dominated the market for hydrogel-based drug delivery systems. Natural hydrogels are manufactured with the assist of using proteins inclusive of gelatin, lysosome, and collagen; and polysaccharides inclusive of chitosan, hyaluronic acid, and alginate. They have good cell adhesion characteristics however because of their mechanical and stability problems recently are much less preferred in formulating drug delivery systems.

Hydrogel-based Drug Delivery System Market, By Route

• Subcutaneous
• Ocular
• Oral Cavity

On the basis of Route, the market is segmented into Subcutaneous, Ocular, and Oral Cavity. In 2020, The ocular segment dominated the market for hydrogel-based drug delivery systems. Hydrogels are generally utilized in ocular drug delivery applications because most of the hard and contact lenses are manufactured from hydrogel films. So, it becomes easy to incorporate healing drugs into contact lenses. Additionally, there are various ongoing medical trials particular to hydrogel contact lens-based drug transport systems, which, in turn, is fuelling the marketplace boom.

Hydrogel-based Drug Delivery System Market, By Geography

• North America
• Europe
• Asia Pacific
• Rest of the World

On the basis of regional analysis, the Global Hydrogel-based Drug Delivery System Market is classified into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Rest of the world. North America dominated the market for the hydrogel-based drug delivery systems. The presence of efficient reimbursement that covers the fee of present-day therapies, the domicile presence of hydrogel suppliers, and common product launches are the important factors anticipated to contribute to the marketplace boom in the region.

Key Players

The “Global Hydrogel-based Drug Delivery System Market” study report will provide valuable insight with an emphasis on the global market. The major players in the market are GALDERMA, Blairex Laboratories, Inc., Johnson & Johnson, Bausch and Lomb, Medtronic, Ocular Therapeutix, Inc., Ferring B.V., Endo International plc, Akorn, Incorporated, and Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The competitive landscape section also includes key development strategies, market share, and market ranking analysis of the above-mentioned players globally.

Key Developments

• In March 2021, Johnson & Johnson Vision receives approval of world’s first and only drug-releasing combination contact lens for vision correction and allergic eye itchACUVUE Theravision with Ketotifen.
• In August 2020, Bausch + Lomb launches innovative Bausch + Lomb infuse silicone hydrogel (sihy) daily disposable contact lenses.

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