Newsletter | January 27, 2025

01.27.25 -- Enabling In-Home Drug Delivery With SMC's Asmita Khanolkar

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Enabling In-Home Drug Delivery With SMC's Asmita Khanolkar

By Drug Delivery Leader: Supplier Horizons

Methods for enabling self-administered, in-home delivery of drugs and biologics must accommodate increasingly larger volumes and more complex formulations. In this episode, Asmita Khanolkar, Senior Director of Pharma Services at contract manufacturer SMC Ltd. discusses several patient-centric considerations.

9 Strategies To Overcome Challenges In The EU Medical Device Market

By Marcelo Trevino, independent expert

Current challenges in Europe's medical device market include the EU MDR transition and a lack of harmonization. Device manufacturers, regulators, and other stakeholders can take these key actions to create positive change.

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

Selecting Delivery Systems For Higher Doses, Viscosities, Lower Risk

Article | By Nicolas Bralet and Megan Lan, BD Medical - Pharmaceutical Systems

Discover how companies can de-risk their device selection as they bring this new generation of high-volume, high-viscosity biologics to market.

Improve Speed To Market By Mitigating Vial And Stopper Incompatibility

Article | By Victoria Morgan, West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.

Examine two studies where a properly assembled vial containment system achieved good CCI performance with stoppers of a given elastomer, independent of configuration/size or vial style.

Ready-To-Use Cartridges: Ensuring Compatibility For GLP-1-Based Drugs

White Paper | Stevanato Group

Learn how Ready-to-use cartridges for GLP-1 applications can minimize complexities and better align with the stringent demands of modern pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Increasing Patient Compliance Via Advanced Oral Tablet Disintegration

Infographic | Catalent

Review how Zydis ODT compares against standard oral tablets, how the same molecule can produce a different outcome when utilizing Zydis ODT, and findings from over 20 published studies.

Materials In Medical Device, Combination Product Development

White Paper | By Fran DeGrazio, Kymanox Corporation

Here are several considerations for a series of characterizations necessary to ensure the efficacy of a packaging or device component and final drug delivery system.

Spray Drying For Innovative Dry Powder Inhaler Combination Formulations

Article | Lonza

Combination therapies delivered directly to the lung by dry powder inhalants are an effective means of reducing patient burden and have the potential to improve care for critically ill patients.

Formulating Spray Dried Dispersions Into Tablets

Q&A | Upperton Pharma Solutions

Gain valuable insights into transforming spray-dried dispersions into effective tablet formulations by reading our interview with Dr. Ian Lafferty, Chief Technical Officer at Upperton.

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