Marta Vilaplana
Device Development Manager

About

Marta Vilaplana is a design engineer with >10 years of experience within the medical device industry. Throughout her career, Ms Vilaplana has focused in the engineering of mechanical systems, integration of product and industrial design and the development of solutions for various delivery systems for the medical sector. She joined Oval’s (now SMC‘s) team in 2018.

Ms Vilaplana graduated from the University of Barcelona (Spain) with a BEng(Hons) in Industrial & Product Design Engineering.

Contributions

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.