Infusion Drug Delivery Videos

  1. Confirming EDDOs Based on "Device Dependence" 10/9/2024

    Among the characteristics of a device design feature that helps identify it as an Essential Drug Delivery Output (EDDO) is “device dependent.” In this segment of the Drug Delivery Leader Live event The FDA Guidance on EDDO: What to Know, What to Do, consultant Susan Neadle of Combination Products Consulting Services, LLC explains the differences between the concepts of device-dependent versus device-independent and illustrates why only the former is applicable to an EDDO.

  2. Understanding CGMPs For Combination Products 1/15/2025

    In this episode of The Combination Products Handbook: The Series, host Tom von Gunden discusses Chapter 4 of The Combination Products Handbook: A Practical Guide for Combination Products and Other Combined Use Systems with the book’s editor, Susan Neadle, and chapter co-author Mike Wallenstein. In the exchange, Susan and Mike share their perspectives on combination product CGMP’s, including regulatory definitions and differences in the U.S. and Europe, supplier controls, design controls, and manufacturer responsibilities.

  3. Vector Approaches To Reaching CNS Targets With Vect-Horus' Jean-Manuel Péan 5/23/2025

    A long-standing challenge in delivering therapeutic treatments for CNS (central nervous system) disorders is how to overcome drug permeability constraints imposed by the blood-brain barrier (BBB). In this episode of Supplier Horizons, host Tom von Gunden talks with Chief Scientific Officer Jean-Manuel Péan from Vect-Horus, a developer of vector-based, platform delivery technologies, about addressing that challenge in targeting disorders such as autism, dementia, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, sclerosis, and CNS tumors.

  4. Public Health Drivers Of Delivery Enablers: An Emergency Use Case 5/23/2025

    In this segment of the Drug Delivery Leader Live online event, Innovations In Drug Delivery: Opportunities For Enhancing Familiar, Mature Approaches, Carolyn Dorgan, director of technical services at device design consultancy Suttons Creek, traces the evolution of delivery technologies for the opioid overdose drug Naloxone to illustrate enablers of emergency use not requiring trained professionals to administer.

  5. Combining Nanocrystals With Microneedles For Long-Acting Delivery With Alejandro Paredes 10/22/2025

    For treatment of chronic diseases, microneedle patches hold great promise for bolstering patient adherence and therapeutic efficacy over time. In this episode of Sit and Deliver, videocast host Tom von Gunden talks with Alejandro Paredes, senior lecturer in pharmaceutical sciences at Queen’s University Belfast, about getting long-acting formulations into combination products leveraging nanocrystals and microneedles as delivery platforms.  

  6. Understanding How EDDOs Relate To Design Controls 4/23/2025

    How are EDDOs (Essential Drug Delivery Outputs) related to Design Controls during the design and development of a combination product? In this segment of the Drug Delivery Leader Live event EDDOs Revisited: Putting Essential Drug Delivery Outputs Into Practice, consultant Susan Neadle of Combination Products Consulting Services, LLC illustrates how the concept of Design Outputs fits within the broader context of Design Controls.

  7. Patient Adoption Of On-Body Delivery Systems 5/23/2025

    In this segment of the Drug Delivery Leader Live online event, Innovations In Drug Delivery: Opportunities For Enhancing Familiar, Mature Approaches, panelists Carolyn Dorgan and Courtney Evans from delivery device consultancy Suttons Creek talk with host Fran DeGrazio about factors creating challenges and opportunities in moving patients to on-body injectors (OBIs) and other wearable drug delivery systems.

  8. Understanding The Change From EPR To EDDO 10/9/2024

    Why does the FDA’s new guidance on drug-led or biologic-led device design include a change in terminology from Essential Performance Requirements (EPRs) to Essential Drug Delivery Outputs (EDDOs)?  In this segment of the Drug Delivery Leader Live event The FDA Guidance on EDDO: What to Know, What to Do, Alan Stevens,  regulatory head of complex devices and drug delivery systems at AbbVie and formerly at FDA, offers his perspective on how the change in terminology clarifies key concepts related to design controls.

  9. Understanding The Global Regulatory Landscape For Combination Products 8/14/2025

    In this videocast episode, host Tom von Gunden discusses Chapter 14 of The Combination Products Handbook (CRC Press) with the book’s editor Susan Neadle, along with chapter coauthors Stephanie Goebel, Cherry Malonzo Marty, and Viky Verna. The group provides overviews of the commonalities and variances in regulatory definitions and guidances for combination products across global jurisdictions and agencies. 

  10. What Happened to CAPA (Corrective and Preventive Actions) Requirements? 7/11/2024

    Is CAPA still part of the requirements picture for the new QMSR? In this segment of the Drug Delivery Leader Live event New FDA QMSR: Its Role in Part 4 Compliance for Combination Products, consultant Ed Bills of Edwin Bills Consultant discusses changes in the treatment of corrective and preventive actions.