About

Alex Vasiev, PhD, is an experienced engineer specialising in medical device development. With a broad multidisciplinary background, Dr Vasiev has focused on drug delivery, contributing to the development of novel microcarriers, hydrogel matrices, patch pumps, inhalers and several high-viscosity autoinjectors. He currently holds the position of Principal Biomedical Engineer at Springboard, having previously served as Manager of Device Development at Oval Medical Technologies (now SMC Ltd).

Contributions

EXPERT VIEW

THROUGH THICK AND THIN: MODELLING THE DELIVERY OF NON-NEWTONIAN FORMULATIONS

Alex Vasiev explores the challenges inherent in understanding flow rates in injectable drug delivery when dealing with non-Newtonian fluids, and provides an overview of how to calculate flow rates for power law, Carreau and Cross fluids.

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PREFILLED SYRINGES

VERIFYING THE CONTAINER CLOSURE INTEGRITY OF CUSTOM PRIMARY PACKAGING

Alex Vasiev, Connor Everett and Steven Hay explore the challenges of verifying the container closure integrity of custom primary packaging.

INJECTION

FUNCTION-BASED PRIMARY PACKAGING DESIGN FOR INJECTING VISCOUS NON-NEWTONIAN FORMULATIONS

Marta Vilaplana; Alex Vasiev and Susie White explore the challenges of delivering high-viscosity, non-Newtonian fluids emphasising the importance of robust tools to characterise specific device and formulation parameters in light of increasing regulatory scrutiny.