Bioanalytical Method Development and Validation
Bioanalytical Method Development and Validation
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Sameer Kumar Singdevsachan, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Business Manager-Biopharma
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Therapeutic DrugsMaster title style
• The terms drug, medicine and pharmaceutical product are commonly used interchageably.
An Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) is the chemical substance contained in a
pharmaceutical, which is responsible for its therapeutic effect. Some pharmaceuticals
contain more than one active ingredient (combination product).
Complexity of Therapeutic Drugs
Acetylsalicylic acid1
~ 180 daltons
Insulin2
~ 5,700 daltons
Growth hormone3
191 amino acids
~ 22,000 daltons
Monoclonal antibody4
~ 1,300 amino acids
~ 150,000 daltons
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• Analytical methods, on the contrary, are intended for demonstrating quality parameters
(like identity, purity or content) of a biopharmaceutical product. Over the years, analytical
methods have proven to be the backbone of biopharmaceutical industry beside respecting good
manufacturing practices (GMP) during production. Analytical methods ensure the safety, purity,
potency and consistency of drug substances (DS) or drug products (DP).
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for investigational new drug application (IND), new drug application (NDA),
Abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) to FDA.
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formalities,
bioequivalence (BE) studies, requiring pharmacokinetic (PK) evaluation including non-human
pharmacology and toxicology studies and preclinical studies, for this purpose there is a need to
develop and validate bioanalytical method.
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Instrumentation Master title style
LCMSMS
HPLC UHPLC
GC GCMSMS
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Liquid Chromatography
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Flow Diagram showing components of HPLC instrument
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Basic procedure of HPLC analysis
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• The analytes are detected based on their MW. The obtained information is especially useful for
compound structure identification. However, its use is not limited to structure identification and
can be used to quantify very low detection limit of elemental and molecular components
Working principle of Mass Spectrometer
• In a typical MS procedure, a sample, which may be solid, liquid, or gaseous, is ionized, for example by bombarding
it with a beam of electrons. This may cause some of the sample's molecules to break up into positively charged
fragments or simply become positively charged without fragmenting.
• These ions (fragments) are then separated according to their mass-to-charge ratio, for example by accelerating
them and subjecting them to an electric or magnetic field: ions of the same mass-to-charge ratio will undergo the
same amount of deflection.
• The ions are detected by a mechanism capable of detecting charged particles, such as an electron multiplier.
Results are displayed as spectra of the signal intensity of detected ions as a function of the mass-to-charge ratio.
• The atoms or molecules in the sample can be identified by correlating known masses (e.g. an entire molecule) to
the identified masses or through a characteristic fragmentation pattern.
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6. Pre-validation
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1. Method Master
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and information of sample
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of physicochemical
and the related compounds are essential for the
development of the analytical method. Research
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to be optimized
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✓ Mode of separation
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✓ Selection of stationary phase
✓ Analytical Condition
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a. Mode Master title style
Separation
It’s important to choose suitable mode of separation based on physico-chemical properties molecule.
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▪ Reverse Phase Mode, the stationary phase is non polar hydrophobic packing with octyl or octa decyl
group bonded to silica gel and the mobile phase is polar solvent.
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▪ This is suitable mode of separation for polar and moderately polar compounds/molecules.
▪ The polar compound gets eluted first in this mode and non polar compounds are retained for longer
time. As most of the drugs and biopharmaceuticals are polar in nature, they are not retained for
longer times and hence elute faster.
▪ The different columns used are Octa Decyl Silane (ODS) or C18, C8,C4, (in the order of increasing
polarity of the stationary phase).
▪ An aqueous mobile phase allows the use of secondary solute chemical equilibrium (such as ionization
control, ion suppression, ion pairing and complexation) to control retention and selectivity.
b. Selection of Stationary Phase
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Buffer
pH of the buffer
Mobile phase composition
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Buffer and its strength play an important role in deciding the peak symmetries
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The retention time depends on molar strength of buffer. Molar
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is proportional to retention time. In order to achieve better separation
the strength of the buffer can be increased.
• A volatile organic acid such as acetic acid, or most commonly formic acid, is often added to the
mobile phase if mass spectrometry is used to analyze the column eluent.
• Trifluoroacetic acid is used infrequently in mass spectrometry applications due to its persistence in
the detector and solvent delivery system, but can be effective in improving retention of analytes
such as carboxylic acids in applications utilizing other detectors, as it is one of the strongest organic
acids.
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pH level role in achieving the chromatographic separation as it
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controls the elution properties by controlling the ionization characteristics.
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• A different concentration of buffer was chosen to achieve required separations.
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• It’s also impact the peak shape which is very important for high accuracy
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results.
• Flow rate
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• Detector wavelength
• Data acquisition rate
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in aqueous standards
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• Prepare aqueous calibration curve standards, at least with
five concentrations, including the highest and lowest.
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the instrumental method is concluded with aqueous standards,
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matrix sample.
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literature survey data on analyte and internal standard’s
physicochemical properties like structure, functional groups, pH, partition co-
efficient, dissociation constant, polarity and solubility, set and optimize the
sample preparation technique like
✓ protein precipitation,
✓ liquid-liquid extraction and
✓ solid phase extraction.
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protein precipitation when sensitivity of the drug is more and check
for recovery, precision and interferences.
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liquid-liquid extraction when sensitivity of the drug is less, and check
for recovery, precision and interferences.
• The method is accepted if it meets the criteria of accuracy, precision and recovery. If
needed, the method shall be considered for modification.
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6. Pre-validation
• Method development involves optimizing the procedures and conditions involved with
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the analyte.
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development includes the optimization of the following bioanalytical parameters (which
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to ensure that the method is suitable for validation:
• Bioanalytical method validation proves that the optimized method is suited to the analysis of the
study samples
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– If metabolites are added to an existing assay for quantification.
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• For validation levelmethods, there exists a guideline [ICH Q2(R1)] that determines the
of analytical
parameters of the validation procedure required by the pharmaceutical companies to follow.
As per this guideline, analytical methods are categorized based on their application in purity,
identity, content, and potency testing.
• These methods are tested for multiple parameters such specificity, linearity, limit of detection
and quantitation, trueness, precision, robustness, and range, depending on the category of the
method.
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1. Selectivity
• Each blank sample should be tested for interference which could originate from
endogenous matrix components, metabolites, decomposition products and concomitant
medication.
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2. Sensitivity
– The analyte response should be at least 5 times the response compared to blank response.
– The analyte response should be reproducible with an imprecision of maximum 20% and an
accuracy of 80–120%.
• Linearity evaluates the facility of the bioanalytical method to acquire test results that are
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directly proportionate to the concentration of the analyte in the sample.
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guidelines, the linear range of the method (standard curve) should contain
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at least five standard points matrix-based as studied samples, using single or replicate
aliquots.
• In all bioanalytical trends needs to have an appropriate operational range but not necessarily
be linear. If linear regression doesn’t work, and the dynamic range is large, quadratic
regression may be used. In some cases standard curve is weighting by 1/x or 1/x2 to obtain
accurate back-calculated values for standards and quality control (QC) samples.
• In addition the standard points during each run must be freshly prepared for each assay. The
variation in back-calculated values of standards should not exceed ± 15% except LLOQ (±
20%). The acceptance criterion for the standard curve is that at least 75% of standards
including the LLOQ while 67% of QC samples (low, medium, high) should meet this criteria.
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• The aim of consideration of quality control (QC)
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samples is to demonstrate the accuracy and precision
of an analyte in biological matrix with known
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concentrations.
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completed by analysis of replicate
sets of desired analyte of known concentrations (QC
samples) in the same matrix. At least, three
concentration levels should be used except lower limit
of quantification (LLOQ); quality control high (QCH),
quality control medium (QCM) and quality control low
(QCL).
➢ LLOQ (lowest concentration of the standard curve)
➢ ULOQ (upper limit, highest concentration of the standard curve)
➢ QC-Low (3 × LLOQ)
• The standards and QC samples should be matrix ➢ QC-Mid (linear midpoint)
based as the studied samples and the minimum ➢ QC-High (80% of ULOQ)
number of QCs should be at least 5% of the number
of unknown samples. At least six sources of blank
matrix should be used for preparing of QC samples.
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4. Accuracy
• The mean value should be within 15% of the nominal value except at lower limit of
quantification (LLOQ, see below), where it should not deviate by more than 20%.
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5. Precision
• The imprecision determined as coefficient of variation (CV) at each concentration level should
not exceed 15% except for the LLOQ, where it should not exceed 20%.
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experiments should be performed by comparing the analytical results for
extracted samples at three concentrations with unextracted standards that represent
100% recovery.
• Recovery of the analyte need not be 100% but the extent of recovery of an analyte and
an internal standard should be consistent, precise, and reproducible.
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7. Carryover
• Carry-over can be tested by injecting a blank (mobile phase) after highest concentration of
the standard curve. The response from the blank sample should be less than 20% of LLOQ
peak response.
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• Matrix effect is done in LCMS-MS to find out if there is any ion suppression or enhancement
effect by the matrix.
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9. Stability
• The stability of the analyte in the sample matrix is a critical issue in bioanalytical method
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validation.
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decompose during the sample storage (in refrigerators, on lab bench or
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on autosampler).
• Stock solution stability should be assessed to know how long time it can be stored
without significant loos (<15%) short term (one day) and long term (a number of
months).
• Freeze and thaw analyte stability is other parameter that should be determined (three
freeze and thaw cycles) using at least three aliquots at two different concentrations (low
and high) in each stability test.
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10. Robustness
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development and validation of analytical methods are critical
elements in the development of pharmaceuticals/biopharmaceuticals. In
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neat analyte solutions.
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• This is overview of the sample preparation of drug in biological matrix and
to provide practical approaches for determining selectivity, specificity,
lower limit of quantitation, linearity, accuracy, precision, recovery, stability,
ruggedness of chromatographic methods to support pharmacokinetic,
toxicokinetic, bioavailability, and bioequivalence studies.
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