We caught up with Davinder Ramsingh, MD, to talk about the potential of using low-intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU) to open the blood–brain barrier.
- Beyond GalNAc: Reengineering siRNA For Extrahepatic Delivery
- Engineering CAR T Cells With mRNA-LNPs: Applying Oncology Learnings To Allergic Diseases
- The Future Of Cancer Drug Discovery Is Targeted Immune Activation
- Part 4 cGMP Summaries For Combination Products: Uncovering FDA Expectations
- Unpacking The FDA Draft Guidance On Container Closure Systems
- Turning A Historically Limited Modality Into A Respiratory Drug Opportunity
- Why Delivery Is Defining The Next Era Of Neuromuscular Therapeutics
- Inquiries In Inhalation, Part 2: Having A Nose For Innovation
ARTICLES, APP NOTES, CASE STUDIES, & WHITE PAPERS
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Overcoming Wet Injection Challenges With Human-Centric Design
By understanding the causes of wet injections and employing effective mitigation strategies, we can design safer, more user-friendly, and more effective devices.
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Harness High-Quality PBPK Modeling To Enhance Clinical Readiness
Physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling advancements are helping drug sponsors mitigate risk in preclinical and clinical studies through early identification of poor absorption properties.
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Is It Ever Too Soon To Start Your Performance Testing Assessment?
Developing a safe and effective injectable combination product involves performing risk assessments, establishing a set of Critical Quality Attributes (CQAs), and performing design verification testing.
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Formulation Development From Preclinical To First-In-Human
A compound with poor biopharmaceutical properties or improper formulation design could lead to a delay in the project or even program termination.
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Patient-Centric Formulations In Pediatric Adherence
Improving pediatric adherence requires age-appropriate formulations, taste-masking, and swallowability strategies. Regulatory, clinical, and technological insights help overcome barriers and support safer, more effective therapies for children across developmental stages.
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Are Drugs Becoming More Lipophilic Over Time?
Get a deeper look into how drug lipophilicity has evolved over time, its impact on drug development, and the need for new technology to enable new more complex drugs.
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Prefillable Syringe Plungers: A Solution For Low Temperature Storage
Review a study with 1 mL long glass and polymer-based syringes and with 2.25 mL glass syringes. Explore the impacts on plunger movement, container closure integrity, and break loose and extrusion force.
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Inspection Of Injectable Products For Visible Particulates
Examine the risks posed by particulates, the potential sources and types of particulates, and approaches to detect and measure visible particulates in injectables.
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Container Closure Integrity Evaluation For Cell And Gene Therapies
With the growth of gene and cell therapies, there is an increased need to characterize container closure systems at the low temperatures experienced during their lifecycles.
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Decoding the FDA Guidance on Essential Drug Delivery Outputs
The FDA’s draft guidance Essential Drug Delivery Outputs for Devices Intended to Deliver Drugs and Biological Products discusses general concepts around essential drug delivery outputs (EDDOs). The guidance’s potential impact spans several device development topics, including design outputs, verification/validation, and control strategy.
TOM'S TAKES ON DRUG DELIVERY
TALKING WITH TOM VIDEOCASTS
DELIVERED BY DEGRAZIO
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Unpacking The FDA Draft Guidance On Container Closure Systems
In this article, Fran DeGrazio reflects on the significance of the FDA Draft Guidance on Container Closure Systems, the first update since 1999. DeGrazio places the CCS draft guidance in the current context of science-based and risk-based product development for combination products and other injectable drug product delivery systems. She also addresses the integration of CCS guidance into the development organization’s QMS (Quality Management System).
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Why Human Factors Are Critical To Drug Delivery Device Success
In today’s highly competitive biopharma market, successful therapies prioritize the patient experience. Increasingly, patients expect to receive advanced therapies at home or in decentralized care settings, which require delivery methods that are easy to use and comfortable.
This collection explores how drug delivery teams can incorporate patient-centricity across development, from early human factors strategies to modality selection, ensuring safe, effective therapies that translate to real-world care.

