Dr Kate Hudson-Farmer
Drug Delivery Expert

About

Kate Hudson-Farmer, PhD, has over 20 years’ experience in consulting, business development, new product innovation and technology licensing in the pharmaceutical and medical technology industries. Her focus lies in developing solutions that improve patient engagement and outcomes, whilst strengthening competitiveness in the drug delivery market.

Contributions

CONNECTIVITY

REIMAGINING AUTOINJECTOR CONNECTIVITY

Kate Hudson-Farmer and Simon Hall discuss a new smartphone-based connectivity solution for autoinjectors that requires no additional hardware and works with most autoinjectors and smartphones.

More contributions

WEARABLES

FROM VIAL TO WEARABLE INJECTOR

While autoinjectors are often the delivery method of choice for patient self-administration, there are occasions when a vial and syringe format is required. To overcome the problems associated with this method, Medicom has developed a flexible, wearable patch pump which can accept a simple glass vial and provide a fully automated injection system. Hans Jensen and Kate Hudson-Farmer explain how it works.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

OPTIMUM PRIMARY PACKAGING STRATEGY: EARLY & HOLISTIC DEFINITION

Kate Hudson-Farmer and Niels Kure reveal conflicting pressures on the product development process in orphan indications which potentially lead to products in this category – especially emerging biotech products – being left with suboptimal drug delivery systems and primary packaging.