Pre-clinical & Clinical Support
Capsugel’s pre-clinical and clinical trial support services enable speed-to-market, easy scale-up and help you succeed with a suite of integrated services and products tailored to your needs.

Outstanding Pre-clinical Services
Capsugel’s scientists work with you to support your pre-clinical work. Primary areas of focus are:
- Formulation Development – Powder and Lipid-based pre-formulation activities offer a high-performance, full-service solution that can speed time to market
- Analytic Development – We have suitable analytical capabilities for supporting the development of powder and lipid-based formulations according to regulatory guidance
- Small-scale Manufacturing – For animal and stability studies, utilize our development scale machines like the CFS 1200 liquid filling and sealing equipment and the Xcelodose S® system for precision micro-dosing
- PCcaps® Capsules – An ideal capsule for pre-clinical animal studies, PCcaps capsules deliver consistent dosage levels without using excipients – saving time and cost. Learn More
Clinical Support & Equipment
We offer industry first-rate clinical trial products, equipment, manufacturing and analytical services, and technical support for encapsulation of both solid and liquid fills for clinical development:
- DBcaps® Capsules – With risk factors such as patient compliance and potential bias in clinical trials, improving the accuracy of double-blind studies is paramount. Active comparator tablets can be discretely enclosed within tamper-evident DBcaps capsules, which are specially designed to improve patient compliance and reduce bias. Learn More
- Over-encapsulation Sizing Guide – A guide to help you identify the most appropriate size DBcaps capsule, based on the shape and dimensions of the comparator product that is to be over-encapsulated. Order your free Sizing Guide today
- Daily Intakes for Colorants – A guide outlining certain regulatory limits for the number of DBcaps capsules that can be ingested per day. Download
- Encapsulation Machines – DBcaps capsules can be filled on our ProFiller 100 and ProFiller DB capsule filling machines, and on select manual filling machines. Learn More
- CFS 1200 Liquid Filling & Sealing Machine – The CFS 1200 liquid filling and sealing machine is an innovative development-scale bench-top machine specifically designed to allow formulation scientists to better exploit the potential of lipid-based formulations. It automatically fills and seals two-piece capsules with liquid or semi-solid formulations and helps accelerate the development timeframe to achieve Faster Time to First in Human. Learn More
- Xcelodose® S Precision Micro-dosing System – With the Xcelodose S system, creating manufacturing batches for clinical trials has never been easier or more precise. That's because this unique technology allows companies to precisely fill capsules with drug substances alone, thereby eliminating the need for excipient compatibility and pre-formulation activities. Learn More
- CapsuleCaddy™ Container and DBcaps Capsules Small Box – Many of our capsules are available in convenient smaller quantities in easy to store containers, perfect for clinical trial batches, smaller double blind trials, R&D projects or small manufacturing runs. Learn More
Learn more about our pre-clinical formulation and support and see if you can benefit from utilizing four other proven service solutions available through our Product Development Centers.
Video
The Xcelodose® Video
A System of Filling and Batch Manufacturing
Additional Resources
Capsugel Xcelodose® System Precision Powder Micro-dosing System Brochure
DBcaps® Capsules Brochure
PCcaps® Capsules Brochure
CFS 1200 Capsule Filling and Sealing Machine Brochure
CapsuleCaddy™ Container Brochure