Devices
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY – ESCP, Estimating Product Performance Part 2 – Choosing a Seesaw
Josef Bossart, PhD, introduces, in a series of short articles, a qualitative model to help understand and visualize the potential of a product with prescribers, patients, and payors. This simple model can help weed out product ideas that may at first glance seem attractive but offer little potential in the real world.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW – Celanese: Better Therapeutic Outcomes From Better Drug Delivery
Laura Brand, Vice President of Celanese’s Medical & Pharmaceutical Business, discusses her company’s drug delivery platform and the value it brings to the industry.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY – ESCP, Estimating Product Performance Part 1 – Playground Physics
Josef Bossart, PhD, introduces, in a series of short articles, a qualitative model to help understand and visualize the potential of a product with prescribers, patients, and payors. This simple model can help weed out product ideas that may at first glance seem attractive but offer little potential in the real world.
TUB PACKAGING – Why Double-Bagged Tubs Are an Issue for High-Speed Filling
Tilman Roedle says variation in tub packaging continues to create financial and operational challenges for the entire downstream supply chain, and it’s time for the industry to align on packaging configuration requirements that make tubs fully processable on automated lines.
2021 COMPANY PROFILES & CAPABILITIES
For each participating company, this section presents a detailed summary highlighting their core technologies, capabilities, technologies, and services.
POLYMERIC DELIVERY SYSTEM – Next-Generation Long-Acting Implantables Using Surface-Eroding Elastomers
Stephanie Reed, PhD, Carissa Smoot, and Dennis Shull describe how PGSU ultimately offers many advantages over other polymers for long-acting implantables, particularly for high-loading, long-duration implants that are gaining interest in the pharmaceutical industry.
DRUG DELIVERY – Recognizing the Patient Potential for Transdermal Drug Delivery
Sally Waterman, PhD, and Vasiliki Nikolaou, PhD, explain how transdermal drug delivery patches have the potential to significantly improve not only the outcome of treatments, but also the quality of life for those patients using them.
DEVICE DEVELOPMENT – Designing Devices for Inhaled Drugs
Andreas Meliniotis explains how there is plenty of opportunity for the development of new, improved devices to ensure inhaled drugs can be accessible for a wide range of patients and can treat various diseases and conditions effectively.
CUSTOM DEVICE SOLUTIONS – Device Design Will Act as Competitive Distinguisher in a Post-Patent Expiry Biosimilar Market
George I’ons dissects the different factors that will determine biosimilars’ adoption and pace of advancement against their original counterparts, namely clinical confidence in the biosimilar and patient confidence in the drug delivery device.
SPECIAL FEATURE – Injection Devices: Will COVID-19 Deliver Growth to the Market?
Contributor Cindy H. Dubin interviews several leading companies and highlights trends in autoinjectors, pen injectors, wearable devices and connectivity, and prefilled syringes.
EXCLUSIVE ONLINE CONTENT
Nemera & BIOMM Sign Partnership Agreement to Commercialize Reusable Insulin Pen in Brazil
A pioneer in biotechnological medicines in Brazil, BIOMM is launching Nemera’s Advapen under the trade name Lifepen® for the administration of….
Noble Further Expands Capabilities of Its New Human Factors + Program
In direct response to the rapid growth of the recently launched Human Factors + (HF+) program, Noble, an Aptar Pharma company, recently announced the….
Stevanato Group & Corning Incorporated Sign Licensing Agreement to Offer Corning Valor Glass Vials in Presterilized SG EZ-fill Packaging Configuration
Stevanato Group recently announced a licensing agreement with Corning Incorporated to offer a combined solution that will provide biopharmaceutical companies with improved levels of….
Phillips-Medisize Unveils Aria Smart Autoinjector Platform to Drive Innovation & Sustainability in Digital Drug Delivery
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….
Nemera’s Preservative-Free Multi-Dose Eyedropper Approved in Brazil for Aché’s NSAIDs & Dry Eye Formulations
Nemera is excited to announce that its multidose eye dropper Novelia has been approved by ANVISA for the preservative-free formulations CLILON [1] (Ketorolac 0,4% and 0,5%), a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug….