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FORMULATION
FORMULATION
PHARMASHELL – AN ALD NANOCOATING TECHNOLOGY FOR ONCE-MONTHLY INJECTABLES
Dr Anders Johansson, Dr Polla Rouf and Dr Oliver Hedge introduce Nanexa’s PharmaShell
®
technology and discuss how, in combination with nanotechnology, it can achieve previously unattainable dosing intervals with standard formulations.
EARLY INSIGHT
EXCIPIENT LANDSCAPES: HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING TO SOLVE VISCOSITY BOTTLENECKS FOR BIOLOGIC THERAPEUTICS
Dr Scott Compel and Dr Alex Hendricks discuss AEMS Corp's automated, microscale screening platform that enables viscosity reduction, using innovative approaches to test excipient combinations effectively.
INJECTION
Girum Yemane-Tekeste
Kindeva
AUTOINJECTOR TECHNOLOGY FOR AUTOMATIC MICROPARTICLE SUSPENSION AND INJECTION
Girum Yemane-Tekeste and Stephen Leslie share how Kindeva is building on its experience and history of innovation to develop an enabling technology for injectable microparticles and then evaluating it through proof-of-principle testing.
INJECTION
Martin Junginger
GELITA
INJECTABLE COLLAGEN – PRESENT AND FUTURE POTENTIAL
Martin Junginger discusses the advantages and challenges of delivering collagen via injection, considering the role that collagen plays in the current healthcare landscape, including GELITA's VACCIPRO
®
and MEDELLAPRO
®
collagen grades, and sharing insights on how that role may grow and adapt going forwards.
EXPERT VIEW
Dr Mehul Desai
ANTIBODY-DRUG CONJUGATES: AN EMERGING FRONTIER IN IV TO SC CONVERSION
Dr Mehul Desai, Dr Michael Hageman and Dr Wei Chen examine the growing antibody-drug conjugate market, the unique formulation challenges these therapies present for subcutaneous delivery and how innovations in on-body injector technology may offer a practical path forwards.
FORMULATION
Dr Liliana Miinea
Lubrizol
FROM BRICK-DUST DRUGS TO BREAKTHROUGHS: TRANSFORMING DRUG DELIVERY WITH NOVEL EXCIPIENTS
Dr Liliana Miinea of Lubrizol discusses how next-generation excipients can help formulators realise the potential of promising but poorly soluble drug candidates, including Lubrizol’s Apisolex™ and Apinovex™ polymer excipients for parenteral and oral applications.
DUAL CHAMBER
Bjørn Knud Andersen
Phillips Medisize
IMPROVING THE SELF-ADMINISTRATION OF LYO- AND LIQUID-LIQUID FORMULATIONS
Bjørn Andersen and Iain Simpson explore the factors contributing to interest in lyo-liquid and liquid-liquid drug delivery, highlighting some of the current unmet needs in this space. Following this, they discuss how platform technologies, such as electromechanical drives, may help address these unmet needs.
EXPERT VIEW
Edward Trappler
FROM HOSPITAL TO HOME HEALTHCARE: ADVANCES IN LYOPHILISED PRODUCT DELIVERY
Edward Trappler, Denise Miller and Michael Thomas discuss the challenges for lyophilised products and consider the role of dual-chamber devices in simplifying reconstitution, particularly for at-home healthcare products, and go on to look at how future advances in delivery devices are providing safe solutions for self-administration while improving patient adherence.
EXPERT VIEW
Jennifer Gattari
MASTERING COMMERCIAL MANUFACTURING FOR STERILE INJECTABLES
Jennifer Gattari delves into what is required to succeed at the commercial phase of sterile injectable manufacturing, going on to explore the challenges that companies can expect and the critical strategies that can help ensure a smooth and scalable journey to market.
INTERVIEW
Pascal Halbherr
InnoMedica
Interview: Pharmapack Start-up Spotlight: InnoMedica Accelerating Trials with Novel Nanoparticle Filling
Pascal Halbherr discusses the InnoMedica's innovative nanocarrier filling technology platform, its impact on biotech and drug delivery, and the company’s bold vision for the future. InnoMedica, a Swiss biotech, is one of the 28 early-stage companies presenting cutting-edge innovations in Pharmapack Europe 2025’s Start-up Market.
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.
EXPERT VIEW
Dr Alex Vasiev
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.
INJECTION
Dr Michael Adler
ten23 health
TRANSITIONING FROM VIAL TO SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTION DEVICES FOR BIOLOGICAL DRUG PRODUCTS
Michael Adler, Venkata Appa Reddy Goli, Andrea Allmendinger and Hanns-Christian Mahler, discuss the various factors that need to be considered when transferring to a delivery device for subcutaneous injection, such as a prefilled syringe or autoinjector, during clinical trials or post-launch, especially when transferring from a vial format for intravenous infusion.
EXPERT VIEW
Tom Oakley
Sanner Group
DRUG DELIVERY TRENDS FOR 2024
Tom Oakley and Kamaal de Silva consider how keeping abreast of the latest trends can help the industry predict and prepare for the future and, commenting from Springboard's privileged position at the centre of many of the drug delivery sector’s most exciting developments, discuss the top trends to look out for in 2024.
FORMULATION
Asmita Khanolkar
SMC Ltd
AN ENABLING AUTOINJECTOR TECHNOLOGY FOR DELIVERY OF LONG-ACTING INJECTABLES
Asmita Khanolkar and Susanna White explain why SMC Ltd's Vita autoinjector with resuspension technology provides a potential solution for the delivery challenges of long-acting injectables.
EXPERT VIEW
David DeSalvo
IDENTIFYING AND OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF INJECTABLE COMBINATION PRODUCT EVOLUTION
David DeSalvo considers some potential challenges that the rapid evolution of autoinjectors (and combination product injectables in general) raises, along with how the industry can successfully address this cycle of reinvention.
INDUSTRIALISATION
Dr Ben Knappett
Particle Works
HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING TO ACCELERATE NANOMEDICINE DISCOVERY
Ben Knappett discusses how the successful combination of microfluidics with automation can provide rapid and cost-effective high-throughput lipid nanoparticle technology formulation screening, and how this approach could play a significant role in advancing the development of new nanotherapies.
WEARABLES
Paolo Golfetto
Stevanato Group
DEVELOPING AN ON-BODY PLATFORM FOR EFFECTIVE POST-OPERATIVE PAIN MANAGEMENT
Paolo Golfetto and Sheldon Moberg discuss a collaboration between Stevanato Group and Bexson Biomedical that meets an urgent unmet patient need.
EXPERT VIEW
Jeff Lowe
SINGLE USE SYSTEMS – THE FUTURE OF BIOPHARMACEUTICAL PROCESSING
Jeff Lowe considers single-use systems and looks at their role in the future of biopharmaceutical processing.
FORMULATION
Dr Steven Prestrelski
Xeris Pharmaceuticals
XERIJECT™: NON-AQUEOUS FORMULATIONS FOR SC INJECTION OF ULTRA-HIGH-CONCENTRATION BIOLOGICS
Steven Prestrelski introduces the XeriJect non-aqueous formulation technology that creates formulations with visco-elastic properties, opening the door to subcutaneous injection of difficult-to-formulate biologics, such as monoclonal antibodies, at very high concentrations.
EXPERT VIEW
Dr Anna Cifuentes-Rius
EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE ENGINEERING: OPTIMISING NATURE’S NON-IMMUNOGENIC, DRUG DELIVERY PLATFORM
Anna Cifuentes-Rius discusses the exciting potential of extracellular vesicles to advance drug delivery, in particular their natural ability to carry API payloads across difficult-to-traverse biological barriers.
FORMULATION
Michael Neely
Xeris Pharmaceuticals
ENABLING A NEW PARADIGM FOR PEPTIDE DRUG DEVELOPMENT
Michael Neely reviews peptide formulations and introduces Xeris's XeriSol™ technology and its potential paradigm-changing capabilities.
EXPERT VIEW
Dr Martin Gonzalez
RECENT TRENDS & DEVELOPMENTS IN INJECTABLE FORMULATION & DELIVERY
Martin Gonzalez details current trends in sterile injectable formulations and their delivery devices, and the challenges pharma and its contract development and manufacturing company partners face in bringing emerging breakthroughs to market.
OCULAR
Dr Gautam Shetty
Congruence Medical Solutions
OPHTHALMIC INJECTION OF VISCOUS FORMULATIONS – WHY UNIQUE NEEDS REQUIRE A NOVEL DELIVERY APPROACH
Guatam Shetty and Richard Whelton outline the key considerations related to ophthalmic injection of viscous formulations and propose an innovative, user-validated and fully mechanical device-based solution.
EXPERT VIEW
Michael Neely
A VIEW ON THE USE OF APROTIC SOLVENTS IN PARENTERAL DRUG FORMULATIONS
Michael Neely presents a review and discussion of the status of aprotic solvents as a solubilising vehicle for parenteral drug formulations in the context of the industry’s increasing interest in biologic drugs.
INJECTION
Asmita Khanolkar
SMC Ltd
COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING OF INJECTION-RELATED TISSUE RESPONSES IN DRUG DELIVERY
Olivia Jefferies, Elizabeth Margerison and Asmita Khanolkar introduce Oval’s work on using ultrasound scanning and finite element analysis to construct a model of how tissue compresses under use of an autoinjector across patient demographics, and how this may provide insights into improved autoinjector design for more accurate injection depths, improving patient outcomes.
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