About

Susanna White has worked as a Mechanical Engineer at Oval Medical Technologies for the past five years, where she is involved in the design and test programmes for their innovative polymeric PDC. Much of her work has focused on the study of highly viscous and non-Newtonian drug formulations – using numerical modelling techniques in combination with experimental investigation in order to achieve the most appropriate delivery system for challenging formulations. Susanna graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Masters in Engineering for the Life Sciences.

Contributions

INJECTION

FUNCTION-BASED PRIMARY PACKAGING DESIGN FOR INJECTING VISCOUS NON-NEWTONIAN FORMULATIONS

Marta Vilaplana; Alex Vasiev and Susie White explore the challenges of delivering high-viscosity, non-Newtonian fluids emphasising the importance of robust tools to characterise specific device and formulation parameters in light of increasing regulatory scrutiny.

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PREFILLED SYRINGES

COMBINING HUMAN NEEDS WITH HIGH VISCOSITY FORMULATIONS

Jonathan Bradshaw and Susie White discuss the requirements of designing an autoinjector capable of handling the high pressures necessary for the delivery of highly viscous drug formulations with minimal impact on the patient.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

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.