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The BMS team would like to thank Srini Sridharan, Tracy Gaebele, Ana Ferreira, Sai Jayaraman, Patrick Wray, and Andy Ilott (all Bristol-Myers Squibb) for their support during this study and Keith Tame (Scientific & Medical) for instigating the initial collaboration.
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The CEITEC team acknowledges CzechNanoLab Research Infrastructure supported by MEYS CR (LM2018110). Jozef Kaiser also acknowledges the support of grant FSI-S-20-6353.
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Gamble, J.F., Tobyn, M., Zhang, S. et al. Characterization of the Morphological Nature of Hollow Spray Dried Dispersion Particles Using X-ray Submicron-Computed Tomography. AAPS PharmSciTech 23, 40 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1208/s12249-021-02184-7
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