About

Uri Baruch is Vice-President and General Manager at SMC Ltd. Prior to joining SMC in 2023, he was Head of Drug Delivery and a Partner at Cambridge Design Partnership, where he led a large variety of design projects including an award-winning needle safety device, an emergency auto-injector, a pen injector packaging design for delivery devices and inhalation products. These projects included compiling design history files and led to successful submissions to both the US FDA and the EU EMA.

Mr Baruch has worked in the aerospace and defence, medical devices, automotive and inkjet industries. He has extensive knowledge of design for manufacturing and process design and was involved in setting up several production lines.

Contributions

INTERVIEW

INTERVIEW WITH STEVEN KAUFMAN, STEVANATO & URI BARUCH, CDP

Steven Kaufman and Uri Baruch discuss the recently announced collaboration between their two companies to accelerate the development of a new variable-dose, cartridge-based pen injector platform for diabetes.

More contributions

EXPERT VIEW

THE FUTURE OF DRUG DELIVERY

Uri Baruch looks back on how far injectable drug delivery has come in the past thirty years and, with an eye on current trends and the range of innovations in the sector, particularly data and connectivity technology, looks forward to what the future may hold.

EXPERT VIEW

A PATIENT-CENTRIC APPROACH TO THERAPY MANAGEMENT

Karl Hewson and Uri Baruch discuss the challenges presented by chronic illness, and look ahead to a better future of patient-centric treatment, personalised to each individual’s needs.