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Prefilled Syringes & Injection Devices
166
Issue No #166 Oct 2024
October 4th, 2024
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Issue 166 - October 2024
Inside the magazine
INJECTION
Thomas Fontanellaz
Ypsomed
SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG DELIVERY: ADAPTING TO HIGH-VISCOSITY, LARGE-VOLUME DEMANDS
Thomas Fontanellaz, Reto Jost and Andreas Schneider discuss how Ypsomed is addressing the growing need for subcutaneous injections that accommodate higher volumes and viscosities, with innovative self-injection devices designed to enhance patient comfort and adherence.
INJECTION
Landon Goldfarb
Instron
STREAMLINING THE TESTING PROCESS FOR AUTOINJECTOR DEVICES
Landon Goldfarb highlights the challenges of autoinjector testing and the importance of drawing on the experience of customers when it comes to drug delivery device innovation.
INTERVIEW
Scott Ariagno
EdgeOne Medical
INTERVIEW with Scott Ariagno, EdgeOne Medical
Scott Ariagno talks exclusively with ONdrugDelivery's Guy Furness about the role that contract development organisations play in the drug delivery industry ecosystem and how independent expertise can enable companies like EdgeOne Medical to troubleshoot and accelerate product development.
INJECTION
Vince Masciopinto
SHL Medical
SHL MEDICAL’S ELEXY™: REDEFINING POSSIBILITIES
Vince Masciopinto introduces Elexy™ SHL's new reusable electromechanical autoinjector, highlighting the various advantages that the device platform offers at preclinical, clinical and commercial stages due to its ability to deliver a variety of injection profiles from different primary containers without requiring any mechanical reconfiguration of the device.
INJECTION
Emilie Aranda
RPK Medical
SPRINGS: THE KEY TO ADVANCED AUTOINJECTOR AND PEN INJECTOR PERFORMANCE
Emilie Aranda and Fernando González discuss the crucial role of spring mechanisms and other metal parts in autoinjectors and pen injectors.
INDUSTRIALISATION
Dr Alex Vasiev
Sanner Group
THE RISE OF THE NEXT-GEN CDMO: STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING RISK AND TIME TO MARKET
Alex Vasiev discusses how next-generation CDMOs can ensure the successful commercialisation of new combination products by mitigating development risks, accelerating time to market and helping to avoid costly changes late in the development process.
INJECTION
Christa Janssen-Otten
West Pharmaceutical Services
FLUROTEC
®
PREFILLABLE SYRINGE PLUNGERS: A SOLUTION FOR LOW-TEMPERATURE STORAGE
Christa Jansen-Otten discusses how West Pharmaceutical Services' FluroTec
plungers for prefilled syringe solutions can cope with cold storage conditions to extend drug shelf life and preserve integrity.
INDUSTRIALISATION
Patrik Ingvarsson
Nolato Group
NOLATO’S VIRTUAL FACTORY
Patrik Ingvarsson, showcases the Nolato's virtual factory, highlighting the advantages of virtual tools for product development in the medical device industry.
INJECTION
Hiroki Hasegawa
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical
OXYCAPT VIAL’S CONTAINER CLOSURE INTEGRITY WITH DRY ICE AFTER FREEZING AND THAWING
Hiroki Hasegawa and Tomohiro Suzuki review the benefits of MGC’s multilayer plastic OXYCAPT™ vials and discuss a recent experiment comparing the ability of OXYCAPT and COP vials to resist permeation by CO
2
upon thawing after being stored below -60°C.
ROUNDTABLE
Stephen Perry
Kymanox
ROUNDTABLE: DISCUSSION ON ANTI-OBESITY TREATMENTS
Stephen M Perry, Mathias Romacker and Andreas Schneider tackle the subject of GLP-1s and related obesity-targeted injectable therapeutics and the enormous impact they are having and are expected still to have on drug delivery and the wider pharmaceutical sector.
INDUSTRIALISATION
PCI Pharma Services
COMPANY SHOWCASE: PCI PHARMA SERVICES
As a trusted partner, PCI offers expertise and solutions in sterile fill-finish and specialist final assembly and packaging of advanced drug delivery and drug-device combination products, including seamless end-to-end injectable solutions.
EXPERT VIEW
Chris Hurlstone
FUTURE TRENDS FOR NOVEL INJECTABLE DRUG DELIVERY
Chris Hurlstone looks at the increasing demand for novel injectable devices and summarises the areas we can expect to see significant development activities in injectable technologies.
INJECTION
Enrico Barichello
Stevanato Group
A NEW DIMENSION: BALANCING BIOLOGIC LIMITATIONS AND PATIENT PERCEPTIONS FOR AN ENHANCED INJECTION EXPERIENCE
Enrico Barichello and Carlo Valbonesi discuss the need to harmonise the formulation parameters with patient convenience and comfort for injections, and demonstrate how Stevanato Group has solved this issue through innovation in injector components.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Nourhène Esseghir
Unither Pharmaceuticals
THE PERFORMANCE OF EUROJECT – A BFS-BASED INJECTION DEVICE
Nourhène Esseghir, Alexandre Fontayne and Laury Livemont discuss the performance and benefits of Unither's Euroject
®
injection system.
INJECTION
Nelson Quintana
Altaviz
ALTAVISC: EXPANDING THE DELIVERY WINDOW FOR HIGH-VISCOSITY & HIGH-VOLUME DRUGS
Nelson Quintana discusses how Altaviz's AltaVISC delivery technology reaps the benefits of gas-powered drive systems over traditional spring-based systems for autoinjectors to offer a highly flexible platform technology for drug developers, allowing them to optimise their formulations within a wider range of delivery device specifications.
INJECTION
Antonio Scatena
Gateway Analytical
BEYOND PROBABILITY: CHOOSING DETERMINISTIC METHODS FOR RELIABLE CONTAINER CLOSURE INTEGRITY TESTING
Antonio Scatena answers some of the most common questions regarding the container closure integrity testing methods used to detect leaks and defects – and discusses how the industry can meet the updated expectations set by regulatory bodies.
INJECTION
Dr Farid Seddighi
Gerresheimer
COMPREHENSIVE TESTING PROVES DESIGN CONCEPT OF NOVEL AUTOINJECTOR PLATFORM
Farid Seddighi, Sigrid Saaler-Reinhardt and Daniel Primavessy discuss the critical importance of testing at an early stage of medical device development, presenting an overview of the results that confirm the technical performance and usability of the novel Gx Inbeneo
®
autoinjector.
EXPERT VIEW
Kyle Toole
DEFINING HIGH-VISCOSITY, LARGE-VOLUME DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS
Kyle Toole, Blair Hutton and James McLusky discuss the value that mathematical modelling can provide in the early stages of injectable drug delivery device development, especially when coupled with appropriate empirical testing in a laboratory setting.
SKIN
Dr Nicky Bertollo
Pharma Latch
IT’S TIME TO CONSIDER INTRADERMAL DELIVERY
Nicky Bertollo, Adam Rock and Saidhbh O’Callaghan discuss the progress Pharma Latch’s intradermal drug delivery platform is making towards realising the potential the intradermal route offers to drug developers, especially for vaccines.
EXPERT VIEW
Timothy Bubb
NAVIGATING THE AI REVOLUTION IN THE MEDICAL DEVICES SECTOR: BETWEEN INNOVATION AND REGULATION
Timothy Bubb discusses the potential impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on the healthcare and drug delivery industries, with an overview of the differing regulatory approaches taken by the EU, US FDA and UK MHRA towards this novel area of digital health.
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