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Prefilled Syringes & Injection Devices
178
Issue No #178 Oct 2025
October 11th, 2025
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Issue 178 - Oct 2025
Inside the magazine
INJECTION
Stefanie Stark
Ypsomed
THE COMPASS FOR INNOVATION: REGULATORY AFFAIRS AT YPSOMED
Stefanie Stark and Sandra Schaerer-Lickova highlight how regulatory strategy enables ideas to become solutions, supports development through the product lifecycle and helps ensure that patients worldwide obtain safe and timely access.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Enrico Barichello
Stevanato Group
PROVING THE DESIGN SPACE: ADVANCING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYRINGE-DEVICE COMBINATIONS
Enrico Barichello and Courtney Nicholas Sutton the innovative combination of the Molly
®
autoinjector with Alba
®
and Nexa
®
prefilled syringes, which addresses the need to streamline device approval by establishing comprehensive compatibility testing, collaboration between suppliers and validated solutions for drug delivery.
EXPERT VIEW
Dr Alex Vasiev
AUTOINJECTORS VERSUS ON-BODY SYSTEMS: THE FUTURE OF LARGE-VOLUME DELIVERY
Dr Alex Vasiev and Dr Ethan Miller weigh up the benefits and costs of using on-body injectors versus autoinjectors, discussing delivery, design and patient population variability alongside recent advances in on-body injector development.
INTERVIEW
Steven Kaufman
Portal Instruments
Interview: Steven Kaufman. Delivering the Future – Inside the World of Autoinjector Innovation
Steven Kaufman talks with ONdrugDelivery’s Guy Furness about the world of autoinjectors, looking at the current status quo in the industry, using Portal’s PRIME Nexus™ smart reusable electromechanical autoinjector as a lens to bring into focus how things have changed and where they might be going.
PHARMA VIEW
Carrie O’Donel
Teva Pharmaceuticals
ALTERNATIVE APPROACH FOR DEVICE SUBSTITUTABILITY: HUMAN FACTORS STUDIES FOR GENERICS & BIOSIMILARS
Carrie O’Donel, Henri Akouka, Mark DeStefano along with Leslie Sanchez-Torres, discuss the shortcomings of current comparative use approaches to determining substitutability of devices for generics and biosimilars and propose an alternative approach to human factors studies based on long-standing methodologies that has the potential to unlock innovation and improve the user experience for patients.
INDUSTRIALISATION
Dr Carsten Köhler
BBS Automation
INFLUENCE OF MACHINE CONCEPTS ON OVERALL EQUIPMENT EFFECTIVENESS
Carsten Köhler provides an overview of the key metrics that contribute to overall equipment effectiveness for manufacturing drug delivery devices, detailing some of the options available when considering large-scale, high-volume manufacture.
INDUSTRIALISATION
Patrik Ingvarsson
Nolato Group
NOLATO’S VIRTUAL FACTORY IN ACTION: ACCELERATING DRUG DELIVERY INNOVATION
Patrik Ingvarsson discusses Nolato’s virtual factory methodology, wherein embedded technical experts help drug delivery device developers reduce risk, costs and time to market through intelligent application of simulations to facilitate smoother and more robust development cycles with fewer iterations required.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Chelsea Keeton
Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing
FROM CARTRIDGE TO COMMERCIALISATION – UNDERSTANDING THE FILL-FINISH PROCESS
Chelsea Keeton digs into the challenging yet often overlooked process of fill-finish, discussing the particular hurdles and considerations that come with filling drug products into primary containers, with an emphasis on cartridges and their role in an injectables landscape increasingly influenced by the needs of biologics.
INDUSTRIALISATION
Matthias Müller
Contexo
HIGH-SPEED ASSEMBLY OF NEEDLE SHIELDS FOR PREFILLED SYRINGES
Matthias Müller discusses the factors that set exceptional manufacturing equipment apart from the rest and how Contexo's new machine for assembling needle shields with prefilled syringes meets all these expectations.
INDUSTRIALISATION
Twan Mertens
IGS GeboJagema
INSIDE A TRACK-AND-TRACE SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL MOULDS: A MODEL FOR HEALTHCARE MANUFACTURING
Twan Mertens and Floor Verhorst-Willems explore how IGS GeboJagema provides comprehensive visibility into every aspect of its operations with a 100% control track-and-trace process, spanning from initial sales discussions through to final validation and beyond.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Isabelle Jeangoudoux
SCHOTT Pharma
LAUNCHING A LARGE-VOLUME PREFILLABLE GLASS SYRINGE SYSTEM: RELIABLE SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG DELIVERY
Isabelle Jeangoudoux and Sven Pohle introduce SCHOTT Pharma’s new syriQ BioPure
5.5 mL staked-needle prefillable glass syringe and explain how this solution meets the growing need for large-volume subcutaneous drug delivery.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
David Pircher
Baumann Medical
ENSURING EXCELLENCE IN MANUFACTURING
David Pircher, Pavel Zahradník and Maxime Ludwig discuss the medical mindset in the context of quality and present examples and tools that are used in practice.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Tom Van Ginneken
Wirthwein Medical
HOW COC SYRINGES ARE SHAPING THE FUTURE OF INJECTABLE DRUG DELIVERY
Tom Van Ginneken explores the advantages of cyclo-olefin copolymer syringes, including where they outperform glass, which applications benefit most and why many common objections are outdated or debunked by current data, market adoption and technological advances.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Iker Ibisate
RPK Medical
CUSTOM METAL SOLUTIONS FOR EMERGING CHALLENGES IN AUTOINJECTOR SYSTEMS
Iker Ibisate, Álvaro García Nograro and Irakusne Incierte, address the complex manufacturing challenges posed by increasingly sophisticated autoinjector devices and introduce RPK Medical’s approach as a technical partner in overcoming these challenges through the tailored design and manufacture of functional metal components, such as precision springs and stamped parts.
INJECTION
Bernd Zeiss
Gerresheimer
MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS: HOW SUPPLIER COLLABORATION DRIVES SUCCESSFUL COMBINATION PRODUCTS
Bernd Zeiss, Lucy Lee and Sébastien Cordier discuss the multitudinous advantages of collaboration between suppliers and pharma partners, from boosting innovation to optimising component choices for device development early on, all while ensuring compliance with global regulatory standards.
SUSTAINABILITY
Tim Holden
Owen Mumford
SMARTER FOR BUDGETS & KINDER TO THE PLANET: ECOSAFE
®
SAFETY SYRINGE PLATFORM
Tim Holden describes the key objectives behind Owen Mumford’s 1 mL safety syringe injection platform and how the company sought to provide a single platform for all patients (able, less dexterous and needle-phobic) while minimising cost, waste and carbon footprint impact.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
Bradley Sawyer
Sanner Group
A NOVEL FORCE-MODELLING METHOD & SOFTWARE FOR ACCELERATING TIME TO MARKET FOR NEW INJECTION DEVICES
Bradley Sawyer, Elena Guss Tarazona, Matthew Latham, Charlie Bowen, Dr Jay Sayed, and Harriet Field describe new software co-developed by Sanner Group and Pfizer to translate syringe test data into injection device performance, and to work backwards from device performance after shelf-life expiration to the maximum forces they can allow in a syringe test.
INJECTION
Michele Guasti
Terumo Medical Care Solutions
ADVANCEMENTS IN INTRADERMAL DELIVERY: FROM HISTORIC TECHNIQUES TO MODERN INNOVATIONS
Michele Guasti explores the evolution of intradermal delivery methods, comparing historic methods of delivery, such as the Mantoux technique, with modern innovations, such as the Terumo Immucise™ intradermal injection system. The article goes on to discuss the expanding applications of intradermal delivery, including its potential for targeted lymph node delivery.
INJECTION
Dr Bettine Boltres
West Pharmaceutical Services
WHY YOU CANNOT DESIGN A PREFILLED SYRINGE SYSTEM OUT OF COMPONENTS
Dr Bettine Boltres unravels the complexities of bringing a new molecule to market as part of a combination product and rethinks the way that drug-device design could be tackled instead, approaching the system as a whole rather than through individual component development.
INJECTION
Asmita Khanolkar
SMC Ltd
A CONFIGURABLE PATIENT-CENTRIC DELIVERY PLATFORM FOR BIOLOGICS AND HIGH CONCENTRATION FORMULATIONS
Asmita Khanolkar and Marta Vilaplana, explore key challenges in delivering complex biologics and formulations, as well as the importance of early device involvement in preclinical development. They go on to consider how configurable platform technologies can support delivery of biologics, suspensions and high-viscosity formulations.
VIDEO
Lifecore Injectables
A HOME for Your Molecule – Lifecore Biomedical
More than a parenteral CDMO, your discovery deserves a home. A home where the level of care is unmatched. Learn why Lifecore Biomedical is the right home for your molecule.
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