PREFILLED SYRINGES

Dr Jeffrey Philippson

THE INTERFACE BETWEEN PREFILLED SYRINGE AND AUTOINJECTOR – A DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK

Jeffrey Philippson and Tom Kemp outline the challenges for autoinjector developers at the interface between the device and the prefilled syringe – and describe a framework to formalise analysis of the interface.

West Pharmaceutical Services

SIMPLIFYING THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING PREFILLED SYRINGES

Tibor Hlobik describes how the use of cyclic olefin polymer delivery systems is gaining in popularity because of the benefits they have over glass systems for complex drug applications, and explains what this advance in technology can offer drug manufacturers.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

LED-GENERATED UV FOR ADHESIVE CURING IN MEDICAL DEVICES

Roland Lindner, Matthias Schulze and Bill Jaworski discuss how the needs around adhesive use in the manufacture of medical devices such as glass syringes have evolved and how ATS sortimat has developed a new process to meet industry demands.

INDUSTRIALISATION

Simon Strothers

F2V: A STERILE, CUSTOMISABLE LIQUID FILL-FINISH PLATFORM FOR THE TOTAL LIFECYCLE

Simon Strothers presents an integrated fill-finish platform, F2V, designed to represent a commercial filling system as a bench-top solution. The article also includes a recent case study where the F2V was used by Consort Medical to help develop and industrialise a flagship delivery device.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Tomohiro Suzuki

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical

LATEST UPDATE ON OXYCAPT™ MULTILAYER PLASTIC VIAL AND SYRINGE

Tomohiro Suzuki gives an update on the development of the OXYCAPT™ multilayer plastic vial and syringe – highlighting the results of recent tests comparing it with existing glass syringes.

INDUSTRIALISATION

Berthold Schopferer

Z.BLIZZARD AUTOMATION SYSTEM FOR PFS: IMPROVING THE LIVES OF PATIENTS

With the ultimate objective of improving patients’ lives, Berthold Schopferer provides an overview of the company’s customer-specific automated manufacturing and assembly equipment offering for prefillable polymer syringes.

Marta Vilaplana

Oval Medical Technologies

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.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

BD (Becton Dickinson & Company)

8 MM NEEDLE – IMPROVING SUBCUTANEOUS CHRONIC DRUG DELIVERY

Aurelie Pager describes how reducing needle length can improve the risk profile of subcutaneous injections and can make injecting viscous formulations easier and quicker, and highlights BD’s development programme for an innovative shorter needle with ultra-thin walls for prefilled syringes.

CO-PACKAGED COMPONENTS IMPROVE PATIENT EXPERIENCE AND ENSURE CONSISTENT DRUG DELIVERY

Chris Franzese and Amy Rinaldi explore the challenges and benefits of co-packaging for manufacturers, healthcare workers and patients.

Chantal Wierckx

ADDING VALUE TO PREFILLED SYRINGES: SAFETY AND CONNECTIVITY

Chantal Wierckx and Arnaud Guillet provide an update on Newguard™, Biocorp’s integrated safety device for prefilled syringes, and explore the possible advantages connectivity can bring in the context of traceability for anti-counterfeiting, in clinical trials and in vaccination campaigns.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

DEVELOPING DEMONSTRATORS TO INCREASE PATIENT CONFIDENCE AND REDUCE ANXIETY

Joe Reynolds discusses the value of demonstrators for making patients comfortable and effective with their prefilled syringe, leading to a significant improvement in treatment adherence and patient quality of life.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Mr Maximilian Vogl

Gerresheimer Expands Gx RTF^® ClearJect^® Product Line

Maximilian Vogl describes how Gerresheimer is expanding its range of prefillable polymer syringes to include a new product: the Gx RTF^® ClearJect^® polymer syringe, 2.25 mL.

INDUSTRIALISATION

Berthold Schopferer

Z.BLIZZARD AUTOMATION SYSTEM – IT DOESN’T GET MORE TAILOR-MADE THAN THIS

Berthold Schopferer explains how the Zahoransky’s integrated syringe manufacturing and assembly equipment allows maximum customisation and full customer involvement.

BD (Becton Dickinson & Company)

Cecile Halte, BD

In this interview, Cécile Halté, Senior Program Manager, Acute Care Segment, for BD Medical – Pharmaceutical Systems. discusses validation studies of the BD Sterifill Advance™ plastic prefilled syringe, which is intended for use in the hospital setting by healthcare professionals either for manual bolus injections, or with infusion pumps.

INDUSTRIALISATION

Michael Wiglenda

A FIVE-STEP APPROACH TO INNOVATION IN DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS

Michael Wiglenda explains Gerresheimer’s industrialisation offering and the five-step Gate-Model that guides its innovation process.

Dr Mircea Despa

BD (Becton Dickinson & Company)

MIRCEA DESPA & DOUG McCLURE, BD

In this interview, Dr Despa and Mr McClure discuss BD’s approach to connecting devices in its portfolio to meet patient, pharma and other stakeholder requirements. Their discussion focuses in particular on safety and security, highlighting the connected wearable injector, BD Libertas™ with Smart Option, as an example.

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Credence MedSystems

TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE: Credence MedSystems Multi-Site™ Injection System

Credence MedSystems introduces the Multi-Site™ Injection System – a product that addresses specific needs in the high-growth dermal filler market.

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BD (Becton Dickinson & Company)

SELECTING THE RIGHT PRIMARY CONTAINER FOR INJECTABLES IN ACUTE CARE

Alfred Harvey explains why it’s important to select the right primary container presentation – and what can happen if you get it wrong.

Figure 1: OXYCAPT™ Vials and Syringes.

Takuya Minezaki

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical

MULTILAYER PLASTIC VIALS & SYRINGES FOR BIOLOGICS

Dr Takuya Minezaki and Tomohiro Suzuki, provide an overview of the company’s OXYCAPT™ Vials and Syringes, explaining how their multi-layered polymer material delivers the advantages of both COP and glass, and is especially suitable for biotherapeutics.

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Berthold Schopferer

NEXT-LEVEL FUTURE MANUFACTURING FOR MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Berthold Schopferer explains the lengths the production equipment company goes to in its efforts to ensure the customer is always king.

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Bjarne Sørensen

Phillips-Medisize

A RE-USABLE CONNECTED AUTOINJECTOR CUSTOMISED FOR THE COMPANION^® SAFETY SYRINGE SYSTEM

Bjarne Sørensen and John A. Merhige explore the latest developments in modular autoinjector platforms and the benefits for end users and pharmaceutical customers. They also discuss the two companies’ recent partnership for the development of a combined system that capitalises on important synergies between two compatible technologies.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

SOLUTIONS FOR HIGH-VOLUME DRUG DELIVERY

SHL Group introduces the high-volume variation of its Molly^® family of products, the Molly^® 2.25, and discusses more broadly the advantages that the Molly^® business model offers to pharmaceutical and biotech clients.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE: teamtechnik’s LED Cannula Gluing Process

Ingo Stephan introduces a new gluing process for attaching cannulas using LEDs from teamtechnik.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Justin Schroeder

PCI Pharma Services

BIOLOGIC MEDICINES AND PATIENT-CENTRICITY – A NEW PHASE OF HOPE

Justin Schroeder discusses how the increasing biologics and biosimilars market has driven innovation and a trend towards self-administration and user-centricity in the injectable drug delivery device market.

BD (Becton Dickinson & Company)

SAGAR BEJALWAR, BD MEDICAL – PHARMACEUTICAL SYSTEMS

Sagar Bejalwar discusses the product and clinician needs in delivering hyaluronic acid for cosmetic applications.

HAZARDOUS DRUG HANDLING AND INVESTIGATIONAL DRUGS: LESSONS TO LEARN

Marino Kriheli discusses the need for closed-system transfer devices when handling hazardous drugs, particularly as they relate to investigational drugs, not only as key to patient and healthcare practitioner safety, but also in the context of upcoming US regulation.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Dr Eric Chappel

LOW-COST DISPOSABLE WEARABLE INJECTOR PLATFORM FOR LARGE VOLUMES OF VISCOUS DRUGS

Eric Chappel, Dimitry Dumont-Fillon and Laurent-Dominique Piveteau discuss Debiotech’s novel wearable injector technology, which utilises a propellant vapour system to drive the injection, making the device both space- and cost-efficient.

SIX TECHNIQUES FOR RAPID EARLY-STAGE MEDICAL DEVICE DEVELOPMENT

Stuart Curtis runs through six techniques which, in his experience, are invaluable for accelerating the early development stages of drug delivery device design and can therefore be of great use when trying to accelerate a product’s time to market.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Hideaki Kiminami

Terumo Pharmaceutical Solutions

DEVELOPMENT OF PREFILLABLE SYRINGES TO MITIGATE THE RISK OF PARTICLE FORMATION IN BIOPHARMACEUTICALS

Hideaki Kiminami and Philippe Lauwers discuss the problem of particle formation in biopharmaceuticals packaged in prefilled syringes.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical

MULTILAYER PLASTIC VIALS & SYRINGES FOR BIOLOGICS

Shota Arakawa and Tomohiro Suzuki discuss OXYCAPT™ Plastic Vial and Syringe, which provides a product with all the advantages of plastic, coupled with strong oxygen and UV barrier properties.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

UV STERILISATION & THE CASE FOR PREFILLED & PRELOADED DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS

Mindy Katz and Ori Ben-David review the different fill form configurations of drug delivery devices, outlining the importance of the prefilled and preloaded device configuration for self-administering patients.

THE ROAD TO PREFILLED DEVICES IN NOVEL COMBINATION PRODUCTS

Lior Shtram discusses three approaches to delivering novel combination products – user-filled, user-loaded and prefilled – through the lens of sterilisation processes and requirements at the industrial manufacturing scale.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

IMPROVING PATIENTS’ SELF-INJECTION EXPERIENCE

Jeff Lettman and Josh Hopkins explain how they worked with a client to develop a product that would function with the pre-existing drug delivery device to help rheumatoid arthritis patients with reduced dexterity.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

BD (Becton Dickinson & Company)

DRUG-DEVICE CO-PACKING SOLUTIONS TO ENHANCE DIFFERENTIATION AND IMPROVE EXPERIENCE

Janice Adkins discusses the benefits that co-packing, the practice of providing drug preparation and delivery systems along with a medication, can bring to pharmaceutical manufacturers, clinicians and patients.

SAFE, CONVENIENT AND EFFICIENT: INDIVIDUALISING PREFILLED SYRINGES

Ursula Hahn discusses the value of individualised prefilled syringes and explains how small changes in design or components can make a huge difference for doctors, patients and pharmaceutical manufacturers alike.

Charlotte Harvey

HOW SAFETY FEATURES MAKE OR BREAK INFUSION PUMP DESIGN

Charlotte Harvey and Tim Frearson overview the safety systems required when designing an infusion pump system, with a focus on free-flow prevention, occlusion detection and air-in-line detection.

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