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
Credence MedSystems Announces Strategic Collaboration With Phillips Medisize
Credence MedSystems, Inc. recently announced it has formed a strategic collaboration with Phillips-Medisize, a Molex company, a global leader in the design and manufacturing of solutions for the pharmaceutical drug delivery market…..
BD Launches Plunger Stopper in Partnership With Aptar Pharma to Enhance Biologic Drug Delivery
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) recently announced the launch of the BD SCF PremiumCoat Plunger Stopper in partnership with Aptar Pharma, a global leader in drug delivery solutions and services…..
PCI Pharma Services Announces the Acquisition of LSNE to Add End-to-End Global Sterile Fill-Finish & Lyophilization Manufacturing Capabilities
PCI Pharma Services (PCI) recently announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lyophilization Services of New England, Inc. (LSNE), a premier contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO)….
Credence MedSystems Secures $39.9 Million Financing to Enable Scaling of Innovative Drug Delivery & Connected Health Systems
Credence MedSystems, Inc. recently announced it has closed a funding round with gross proceeds of $39.9 million. Sources of funding include strategic investments from Novartis Pharma AG,….
Longeveron Partners With Kinesiometrics to Create & Implement Cutting-Edge Smart Phone App to Measure Physical Responses to Cell Therapy
Longeveron Inc. has entered into an agreement with Kinesiometrics Inc., to provide a cutting-edge, digital data-driven solution for objective real-time measurement of functional capacity and quality….