ADVANCED DELIVERY DEVICES - Innovation Without Change: What is it & What Can it Mean for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers? January 7, 2015

John A. Merhige, MEM, and Dan Thayer believe a rigorous, risky development and regulatory process forces pharmaceutical manufacturers into a bad compromise between advances in delivery systems and the time, cost, and risk associated with those advances.

SPECIAL FEATURE - PFS & Parenteral Delivery: Innovation Is Focused on Patient-Centric, Smart & Sustainable Solutions May 7, 2025

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin speaks with several innovating companies to discuss trends in PFS as well as advancements in autoinjectors and innovations in parenteral delivery.

FOCUSED ULTRASOUND - Overcoming Drug Delivery Challenges February 10, 2025

Neal F. Kassell, MD, says one promising approach, focused ultrasound (FUS), is emerging as a revolutionary tool, enabling non-invasive, targeted BBB disruption. This method holds transformative potential in delivering therapies for neurodegenerative diseases and other challenging conditions, setting the stage for novel treatments in the years ahead.

UPM Biomedicals Launches FibGel, World’s First Injectable Nanocellulose Hydrogel for Medical Devices October 24, 2024

SPECIAL FEATURE - Injection Devices: From Pens & Autoinjectors to Pills, Sprays & Capsules, Injections Become More Efficient September 6, 2024

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin reports on innovative and promising injection technologies that are ever more user friendly, versatile, precise, and life-saving.

SPECIAL FEATURE - Prefilled Syringes & Parenteral Delivery: Next-Gen Injections Feature Technology & Reconstitution April 30, 2024

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin highlights innovations from key players in parenteral delivery and prefilled syringes, with focuses on safety, meeting regulatory requirements, cost, fill/finish, and dosing.

FORMULATION FORUM - Prefilled Syringes: Overcoming the Challenges for Safe & Accurate Delivery of Drugs April 30, 2024

Shaukat Ali, PhD, and Jim Huang, PhD, provide a better understanding about some of the advantages of prefilled syringes, methods for manufacturing, and the syringe types commercially available.

SPECIAL FEATURE - Excipients: Advanced Biologics Require Innovative Excipient Science March 29, 2024

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin speaks with several leading companies to discuss novel and functional excipients being developed, the role they will play in reformulations and new formulations, and their versatility in drug delivery.

SPECIAL FEATURE - Injection Devices: Designing in Sustainability, Usability & Digitization for Patient Compliance September 5, 2023

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin, in this exclusive annual feature, highlights how leading device and drug companies are working to address the challenges of usability, sustainability, and technology to increase patient compliance.

SPECIAL FEATURE - Parenteral Drug Delivery: Could a Dose of AI Improve Development? May 1, 2023

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin speaks with several innovative companies to highlight the strides they are currently making toward improving dose accuracy, integrating design safety, and accelerating time to market.

MARKET REPORT - Survey Suggests Global Innovation to Recover Much More Quickly Than Expected in 2023 February 9, 2023

After a brief fall in 2022 to a score of 6.5 – the first decline since its inception in 2018 – the index has surged to a record score of 7.4. This sudden recovery in scores over a little more than 8 months bodes extremely well for device and packaging manufacturers in the year ahead, suggesting a strong global recovery in industry outlook and confidence.

SPECIAL FEATURE - Injection Devices: Three Trends Influencing Development & Delivery September 1, 2022

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin showcases in this annual feature how various innovative device manufacturers are addressing the current trends in their injection designs.

SPECIAL FEATURE - PFS & Parenteral Drug Delivery: Self-Injection is Very Much the “New Normal” May 2, 2022

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin showcases how leading CDMOs and drug delivery developers are responding to current market trends to create ergonomic technologies that are patient friendly, easy to use, reduce needle anxiety, and feature improved packaging materials.

SPECIAL FEATURE - Injection Devices: Designing Simplicity, Safety & Adherence Into One Delivery System August 26, 2021

Contributor Cindy Dubin, in this annual report, speaks with industry innovators and takes a deep dive into the myriad injectables that are currently in development or recently introduced to the market.

Phillips-Medisize Unveils Aria Smart Autoinjector Platform to Drive Innovation & Sustainability in Digital Drug Delivery May 24, 2021

Phillips-Medisize, a Molex company and leader in drug delivery, diagnostic, and MedTech devices, recently unveiled the Aria Smart Autoinjector platform to unlock innovation, differentiation, and sustainability in the digital drug-delivery device market….

SPECIAL FEATURE - Injection Devices: Will COVID-19 Deliver Growth to the Market? September 1, 2020

Contributor Cindy H. Dubin interviews several leading companies and highlights trends in autoinjectors, pen injectors, wearable devices and connectivity, and prefilled syringes.

DEVICE DEVELOPMENT - Mapping the Regulatory Strategy to Better Navigate Electronic Drug Delivery Device Development for Patient Safety & Security August 31, 2020

Ahmed Mallek, Hadrien Gremillet, and Audrey Chandra say that along with technology advancement in the medical industry, the behaviors and needs of different stakeholders also evolve, resulting in a clear interest in electronic drug delivery devices for a variety of reasons.

AUTOINJECTOR PLATFORM - Identifying New, Enhanced Device Delivery Solutions for Chronic Diseases January 14, 2020

Karima Yadi, MSc, and Lionel Maritan, MSc, believe identifying enhanced needle solutions and offering integrated system solutions to serve the chronic disease market is a great step toward addressing improved patient outcomes and adherence.

SPECIAL FEATURE - Injection Devices: Wearables, Connectivity & Patient-Centric Designs Empower Self-Administration September 3, 2019

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.

BIOLOGICS DELIVERY - Enabling Biologic Drug Delivery of Volumes Beyond 1 mL August 29, 2019

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.

CPHI Annual Report 2024: Drug Delivery Trends & Insights From a Device Perspective

Significant growth in the drug delivery sector is predicted for many areas, with headliners including cell and gene therapies and the GLP-1 blockbusters. Small molecule-based formulations still dominate innovator pipelines, but advanced biologics are also….