September 2019

COVER

SPECIAL FEATURE - Injection Devices: Wearables, Connectivity & Patient-Centric Designs Empower Self-Administration

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin highlights the innovation in injection devices – from wearables to connectivity to varied dose administration – that have occurred in the past year.

FEATURES

SPECIAL FEATURE - Injection Devices: Wearables, Connectivity & Patient-Centric Designs Empower Self-Administration

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin highlights the innovation in injection devices – from wearables to connectivity to varied dose administration – that have occurred in the past year.

DEVICE DESIGN - Autoinjector Design Adjustment to Control Needle Insertion & Initial Injection Speed – Could This Positively Impact Drug Delivery?

Pascal Dugand, Thomas Megard, and Séverine Duband explain how controlling the needle insertion speed can reduce the shock on the prefilled syringe, which can reduce the risk of glass breakage, and will allow a smooth transition to syringe emptying.

BIOLOGICS DELIVERY - Enabling Biologic Drug Delivery of Volumes Beyond 1 mL

Megan Lan, MBA, MA, and Patrick Le Gal say delivery system manufacturers need to use methodologies and tools to manage conflicting requirements and to offer delivery solutions that balance performance, robustness, and usability while delivering higher volume or viscosity biologics.

INTRATUMORAL DELIVERY - Arming the Immune System; Turning Cold Tumors Hot

Daniel J. O’Connor believes a trigger mechanism that can turn cold tumors hot can help researchers set their focus on delivering potentially life-saving drugs directly to core of a cancerous tumor.

ON-TARGET DELIVERY - Lipid-Based System Introduces a Novel Approach for an HIV Vaccination

Fabrice Navarro, PhD, summarizes recent disappointing clinical trial results for HIV vaccines and reports on CEA-Leti’s new approach based on engineered lipid nanoparticles that deliver p24 (a viral protein that optimizes the CpG adjuvant’s effect) with pinpoint accuracy.

EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW - Eloxx Pharmaceuticals: Developing Rare Disease Drugs for Nonsense Mutations

Bob Ward, Chairman and CEO at Eloxx Pharmaceuticals, discusses nonsense mutations and how his company’s goal is to bring safe and effective therapies to children and adults suffering from genetic diseases as quickly as possible.