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PREFILLED SYRINGES
INDUSTRIALISATION
COMPANY SHOWCASE: PCI PHARMA SERVICES
PCI Pharma Services showcases its portfolio of drug delivery-relevant solutions, including: sterile fill-finish and lyophilisation; drug-device combination product design and development; packaging for injectables; and Speedsolutions™ supply chain simplification, and highlights plans for expansion.
INTERVIEW
Doug Bryans
INTERVIEW: DOUG BRYANS, BRYLLAN & JOHN MERHIGE, CREDENCE
Douglas Bryans and John Merhige discuss the changing needs of drug developers around novel dual-chamber and ready-to-use drug delivery devices, capacity and the delivery of complete solutions from CDMOs and device developers, anchored around the recently announced partnership between Credence MedSystems and Bryllan to provide these critical services.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Hiroki Hasegawa
NEW EXTRACTABLES DATA FOR OXYCAPT™ MULTILAYER PLASTIC VIAL FOR BIOLOGICS & GENE/CELL THERAPY
Hiroki Hasegawa and Tomohiro Suzuki review the properties of OXYCAPT™, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical’s multilayer material for primary biologic packaging, and share the data from the latest study on OXYCAPT’s extractables profile.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Edouard Pagnoud
PRIMARY PACKAGING CONSIDERATIONS FOR SUPPORTING COMPLIANCE TO ANNEX 1 REVISION
Edouard Pagnoud, Estelle Verger and Benjamin Brocco look at the new requirements associated with EMA GMP Annex 1 revision regarding injectable primary packaging for ensuring sterility and safety, and consider how Aptar's PremiumFill
®
can reduce the risk of contamination and defects.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Victoria Morgan
RISING TO THE REGULATORY EVIDENCE CHALLENGE FOR HIGH-QUALITY COMBINATION PRODUCTS
Victoria Morgan and Stacy Gates-Rector explore how West is supporting pharma companies with packaging challenges through the supply of high-quality prefillable syringe plungers and provision of a highly co-ordinated technical documentation package.
INDUSTRIALISATION
Enrico Barichello
BIOLOGIC INTEGRITY: MEASURING AND MANAGING THE HIDDEN LEACHABLES RISK FROM PFS ADHESIVE
Enrico Barichello considers the often-overlooked influence of adhesive in the assembly of prefilled syringes and how the hidden risks can be managed and overcome.
INJECTION
Fred Metzmann
NEEDLESTICK INJURY RISKS: SAFEGUARDING HEALTHCARE WORKERS AND PATIENTS
Fred Metzmann discusses how using safety syringes can be a cost-effective measure to reduce the risk of injury to healthcare personnel and patients, and introduces the company’s devices designed for safer drug administration.
INJECTION
Matt McCawley
GAS-POWERED AUTOINJECTOR PLATFORM ENABLES BIOLOGICS DRUG DELIVERY
Matt McCawley and Albie Lavin discuss Altaviz's universal biologics autoinjector platform, highlighting how its gas-powered drive system, based on Pico-Cylinders, provides numerous benefits over legacy spring-powered autoinjectors.
INJECTION
Thomas Thueer
PICCOJECT – USING HUMAN FACTORS TO FULFIL PATIENTS’ NEED FOR INJECTION CONFIDENCE
Thomas Thueer, Chris Muenzer and Ines Schlenker discuss the development of the enhanced usability features of PiccoJect, Haselmeier's novel autoinjector.
INJECTION
Alex Fong
DEVICE INTERCHANGEABILITY STUDY OF THREE-STEP AND TWO-STEP AUTOINJECTORS
Alex Fong discusses the results of a study assessing patients’ ability to switch from a three-step autoinjector to a two-step device.
INTERVIEW
Bo Kowalczyk
ACCELERATING ACCESS: THE FUTURE OF INJECTABLES IS PREFILLED AND PLASTIC – AN INTERVIEW WITH APIJECT’S BO KOWALCZYK & JON ELLENTHAL
Bo Kowalczyk and Jon Ellenthal discuss the need for greater fill-finish capacity in the pharmaceutical industry highlighted by the covid-19 pandemic, and how ApiJect’s Blow-Fill-Seal prefilled injector platform aims to meet this need.
EXPERT VIEW
David DeSalvo
IDENTIFYING AND OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF INJECTABLE COMBINATION PRODUCT EVOLUTION
David DeSalvo considers some potential challenges that the rapid evolution of autoinjectors (and combination product injectables in general) raises, along with how the industry can successfully address this cycle of reinvention.
INDUSTRIALISATION
Jennifer Riter
SUCCESSFUL INDUSTRIALISATION REQUIRES SOLID FOUNDATIONS
Jennifer Riter and Victoria Morgan discuss the importance of choosing the right containment system at the start for successful industrialisation of an injectable drug product.
CONNECTIVITY
Ali Badiei
DIGITAL TWIN IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL SUPPLY CHAIN
Gerresheimer’s Ali Badiei explains the role of digital twin technology and its integration into the pharmaceutical supply chain, highlighting an innovative approach to ensuring drug identity and quality.
INTERVIEW
Arnaud Guillet
Interview with Arnaud Guillet & Fanny Sellier
Arnaud Guillet and Fanny Sellier talk with Guy Furness about how Biocorp has become a key player in the field of connected drug delivery, discuss the current landscape for connectivity in drug delivery and update us on its two major parenteral products – Mallya and Injay – as well as looking forward to the launch of the company’s next generation of connected drug delivery solutions.
CONNECTIVITY
Finola Austin
HARNESSING HUMAN FACTORS IN CONNECTED DEVICE DEVELOPMENT
Finola Austin looks at the role human factors testing plays in the development of connected drug delivery devices.
EXPERT VIEW
Deepu Asok
STRATEGIES FOR TEST METHOD VALIDATION OF DRUG DELIVERY PLATFORMS
Deepu Asok discusses the importance of test method validation for drug-device combination product development and how a common mistake is to design the validation process for a specific device rather than to accommodate the potential variety of a device platform.
INJECTION
Tomohiro Suzuki
OXYCAPT: SUPERIOR PRIMARY CONTAINERS FOR BIOLOGICS AND GENE AND CELL THERAPIES
Tomohiro Suzuki reviews the advantages that OXYCAPT™, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical's multilayer material for vials, offers to biologics and gene and cell therapies, and discusses the results of recent tests into low-temperature storage and dimethyl sulfoxide resistance.
OCULAR
Yuki Takeuchi
OPTIMISING MICROLITRE DOSING: CASE STUDY WITH INTRAVITREAL INJECTION
Yuki Takeuchi and Richard Whelton discuss the challenges of delivering intravitreal injections and how the combination of Terumo’s PLAJEX™ prefillable syringes with Congruence’s Microlitre Dosing Syringe system is able to address them.
OCULAR
Andrea Allmendinger
INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS – MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: A TECHNICAL VIEW OF PRODUCT USE
Andrea Allmendinger and Hanns-Christian Mahler highlight the technical challenges of intravitreal administration and considerations from the ophthalmologist’s and patient’s perspectives.
INJECTION
Brent Buchine
PATIENT-CENTRIC DESIGN CAN BE A FASTER PATH TO MARKET
Brent Buchine considers a faster path to market for automated and easy-to-use reconstitution devices through simplification of the delivery systems.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Iain Simpson
OPPORTUNITIES FOR INNOVATION WITH BIOSIMILARS
Iain Simpson and George Spooner investigate the use of drug delivery systems that support self-administration of biologic drugs, and specifically biosimilars, for the treatment of chronic diseases. This article is based on research conducted by both authors as part of the MPhil in Therapeutic Sciences at the University of Cambridge (UK) and supported by Phillips-Medisize.
INJECTION
Shane Smith
Pro-Tects – A NOVEL SOLUTION TO THE CHALLENGE OF BIOLOGIC INSTABILITY
Shane Smith, Eoin Scanlan and Paula Colavita discusses the difficulty inherent in developing parenteral biologic products due to the challenge of creating a stable formulation in the face of surface-mediated protein aggregation and introduces Pro-Tects – Glycome’s patented surface-treatment technology platform that offers a solution to this critical issue without introducing further development challenges.
INDUSTRIALISATION
Peter Schmidt
PRODUCT SHOWCASE: New Requirements for Injection Devices Make Advanced Testing Solutions Necessary
ZwickRoell showcases its advanced testing solutions for injection devices including pens, autoinjectors and on-body delivery systems.
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