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PREFILLED SYRINGES
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Dr Andreas Schneider
Ypsomed
A NEW VALUE PROPOSITION OF SMART DEVICES: ADVANCED MEDICATION ADHERENCE MONITORING IN CLINICAL TRIALS
Andreas Schneider explores a new value proposition of smart injection systems, introducing how advanced adherence monitoring services resolve some of the key challenges of clinical research practice regarding costs, adherence, data quality and integrity, Dr Schneider explains which technical features are needed for smart devices to provide value-adding adherence monitoring services, using SmartPilot for YpsoMate as a case study.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Arnaud Fournier
Aptar Pharma
PRODUCT SHOWCASE: APTAR PHARMA’S PREMIUM PORTFOLIO
For over 50 years Aptar Pharma’s injectables specialists have led the way in developing innovative elastomer solutions. Their commitment to continuous improvement has resulted in elastomer formulations that feature best-in-class extractables and leachables profiles.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Joe Reynolds
Noble
DEVELOPING DEMONSTRATORS TO INCREASE PATIENT CONFIDENCE & REDUCE ANXIETY
Using Noble’s recent partnership with BD to develop trainers for BD’s UltraSafe™ needle safety technology as an example, Joe Reynolds discusses the importance of training devices for the successful onboarding of patients beginning to use self-injected therapeutics, and how Noble’s training devices are designed to be faithful to the look and feel of the real product.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Dr Menachem Zucker
A REVIEW OF REUSABLE AUTO-INJECTORS FOR BIOLOGICAL & BIOSIMILAR DRUGS
From the perspective of the growing biologics and emerging biosimilars markets, Menachem Zucker showcases E3D – Elcam Drug Delivery Devices' mechanical and electronic auto-injector platforms, both of which are reusable devices with disposable cassettes.
EXPERT VIEW
Helen Simmons
DOES THE NEW EU MDR SPELL THE END OF GRANDFATHERING?
Helen Simons and Stephanie Ward describe how the new EU Medical Devices Regulation will impact on “grandfathered” devices that were approved under old regulation and are currently on the market, but do not necessarily comply with current/updated regulatory standards, and explain the potential implications for device manufacturers.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Dr Theresa Bankston
BD (Becton Dickinson & Company)
THE VALUE OF A BD INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR COMBINATION PRODUCTS
Theresa Bankston looks at the advantages of using an integrated system for drug-device combination products. As well as avoiding problems such as breakage and incompatibility, integrated products can offer solutions at every interface between the drug, container and delivery device and save significant amounts of time and money.
CONFERENCE SHOWCASE
Dr Georg Roessling
PDA
THE UNIVERSE OF PRE-FILLED SYRINGES & INJECTION DEVICES
This year’s Universe of Pre-filled Syringes and Injection Devices will examine increasingly important issues, such as the new patient-centric business reality for the self-injection market and rising US FDA concerns about self-injection.
INTERVIEW
Torsten Maschke
TORSTEN MASCHKE, DATWYLER SEALING SOLUTIONS
Torsten Maschke has been Chief Executive of the Sealing Solutions division of Datwyler and a member of the group’s Executive Board since October 2016. Before joining Datwyler Group, he was responsible for the worldwide distribution of sealing and damping solutions for the automotive industry at Freudenberg Group (Weinheim, Germany).
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Damian Holland
Owen Mumford
UNISAFE
®
: THE IMPORTANCE OF ROBUST DESIGN PREDICTIONS IN DEVICE MANUFACTURING
Damian Holland outlines how the design team went about creating a safer and user-friendly springless safety syringe – UniSafe
®
– which bypasses some of the problems associated with spring-based devices.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Christoph Hammer
PROFITABLE PACKAGING & MODULAR THINKING FOR INDUSTRY 4.0
Christoph Hammer discusses the financial reasoning behind the selection of packaging equipment, taking into account real current and potential future requirements (paying particular attention to Industry 4.0 concepts), and highlighting the advantages of taking a modular approach, such as the solutions offered by Dividella and its sister companies.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
SHL Medical
THE MAKINGS OF INNOVATION IN ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY
In the context of recent industry trends and market demands, including the emergence of biosimilars and increasingly viscous formulations, SHL provides an update on its portfolio of auto-injector products, including two new devices, Maggie® and Bertha™.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Philippe Lesaulnier
Biocorp
NEWGUARD – PAVING THE WAY FOR A NEW SAFETY STANDARD
Needlestick injuries remain a serious concern for pharmaceutical companies involved in injectable drugs. Biocorp has been developing NewGuard™, an integrated passive safety device to tackle this problem. Throughout the development phase, Biocorp defined key elements to ensure NewGuard™ will not require unnecessary changes to be made to the PFS manufacturing process. Philippe Lesaulnier and Eric Dessertenne explain more.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Richard Molin
CRITICAL MATERIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR DRUG CONTAINMENT
Dick Molin highlights some of the hazards that arise through the use of traditional lubricious coatings in parenteral delivery devices. Particular focus is paid to the problems of protein aggregation and trace impurities leaching from elastomeric components before describing how the polymer Parylene, applied as a very thin coating using SCS’ unique deposition method, avoids them.
INTERVIEW
Steven Kaufman
Bespak
STEVEN R KAUFMAN, BESPAK
Steven Kaufman is Global Business Development Lead at Bespak Europe Ltd, responsible for business development activities related to injectable devices such as auto-injectors and wearable injection systems.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Jonathan Lawson
SMC Ltd
USING POLYMERIC PDC TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE AUTO-INJECTOR DESIGN
The limitations of using glass-based auto-injectors, such as contamination, and the need for delivering complex, viscous preparations, have led to a new approach that uses polymeric PDC technology instead. Jonathan Lawson, Jonathan Bradshaw and Susie White look at what polymeric PDCs can offer in making auto-injectors truly patient-centric.
EXPERT VIEW
Mark Turner
DESIGN VALIDATION TESTING – DRUG DELIVERY DEVICES
From a regulatory perspective, Mark Turner provides a summary of the current requirements of parenteral device manufacturers in the area of design validation testing.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Adrien Tisserand
Nemera
COMPLEX DEVICES, SIMPLE PATIENT CARE
Adrien Tisserand explains how the recent granting of German Pharmaceutical Drug Manufacturing Authorisation for Nemera’s facility in Neuenburg enhances the company’s offering to industry, before going on to discuss the Safelia
®
auto-injector and Safe’n’Sound
®
safety device platforms.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Paul Sullivan
Noble
CONTINUOUS GROWTH & INNOVATION IN COMBINATION PRODUCT MARKET PRESENTS CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES
Paul Sullivan describes how smart, error-detecting training devices that are true to the form and function of the actual device deliver the most promising impact on adherence and compliance for patient self-injection.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Isabelle Delcroix
Nemera
ADJUSTING & CONTROLLING INJECTION SPEED BY DESIGN: IMPACT ON PAIN PERCEPTION
Isabell Delcroix and Pascal Dugand describe a study of the multi-award-winning Safelia
®
auto-injector platform, which showed how varying and slowing injection speed could reduce pain perception.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Pascal Dugand
Nemera
A COLLABORATION THAT SAYS YOU’RE IN SAFE HANDS
William Dierick, Pascal Dugand and Adrien Tisserand describe a collaboration to create a compatibility between Terumo’s PLAJEX™; prefillable syringes with Nemera’s Safe‘n’Sound
®
platform of add-on passive sharps injury protection devices for PFS.
INJECTION
COMPANY SHOWCASE: AVERY DENNISON
As labelling technology continues to develop, pharmaceutical labels are making an increasingly significant contribution to operational efficiencies, and to security and compliance. Smarter and more dependable labelling solutions are important in often safety-critical clinical environments.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Jean Vuillecard
Biocorp
SAFER PREFILLED SYRINGES & FEWER PROCESS CHANGES
Jean Vuillecard, Philippe Lesaulnier and Eric Dessertenne explain how, despite great innovations, adopting new syringe safety systems has always been a trade-off between safety and the cost of implementing new processes and introduce Biocorp's Newguard™, a new passive safety system integrated on prefilled syringes without such compromises being required.
INJECTION
Anne Bailly
Aptar Pharma
PRODUCT SHOWCASE: PREMIUMCOAT™
PremiumCoat™ is a novel range of elastomeric stoppers developed by Aptar Pharma and based on an approved, pure, state-of-the-art formulation. The surface of the elastomer is coated during manufacturing with a thin fluoropolymer film.
CONNECTIVITY
Christian Keller
SHL Medical
THE ADD-ON APPROACH TO CONNECTIVITY
William Cirillo and Christian Keller describe a simple add-on connected digital platform that can work with an existing delivery device. Digital health is an umbrella term that covers a lot of different applications of technology in the health industry. From wearable sensors and electronic health records to health apps, connected and digital solutions are becoming more accepted.
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