Inhalation Drug Delivery Videos

  1. Defining and Regulating Combination Products: An Evolutionary Journey 10/15/2024

    In this episode of The Combination Products Handbook: The Series, host Tom von Gunden discusses Chapter 1 of The Combination Products Handbook: A Practical Guide for Combination Products and Other Combined Use Systems (CRC Press, 2023) with the book’s editor, Susan Neadle. Given that the initial chapter was penned by the FDA’s John “Barr” Weiner, the discussion focuses on reasons for establishing the historical and regulatory context for combination products early in the handbook’s topic coverage.

  2. The Future Portfolio Of Innovative Therapy Delivery 10/8/2025

    In this segment of the Drug Delivery Leader Live online event, Next-Gen Drug Delivery: Rethinking Routes For New Therapies, James Wabby, head of global regulatory affairs for emerging device technologies and combination products at AbbVie, provides a landscape overview of emerging and advancing therapeutic methodologies. These include antibody-drug conjugates, CRISPR-edited gene therapies, companion diagnostics, complex generics, and AI-enabled biomarker identification. 

  3. Considering Human Factors In Combination Product Design And Use 3/7/2025

    In this episode of The Combination Products Handbook: The Series, host Tom von Gunden discusses Chapter 7 on human factors engineering (HFE) from The Combination Products Handbook: A Practical Guide for Combination Products and Other Combined Use Systems (CRC Press) with the chapter’s co-authors.

  4. 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.

  5. Setting The Strategic Direction For Advanced Therapy Products 10/8/2025

    In this segment of the Drug Delivery Leader Live online event, Next-Gen Drug Delivery: Rethinking Routes For New Therapies, James Wabby, head of global regulatory affairs for emerging device technologies and combination products at AbbVie, underscores the importance of cascading business and regulatory strategies for advanced therapies and delivery products throughout the organization’s quality management systems. 

  6. Intranasal Delivery for Post-Viral Smell Loss with Cyrano Therapeutics' Rick Geoffrion 10/29/2024

    COVID-19 and other viruses have drawn increased attention to the debilitating effects and potentially consequential underlying causes of hyposmia or anosmia (reduced or complete inability to smell). In this episode of Sit and Deliver, Rick Geoffrion, founder and CEO of regenerative medicine company Cyrano Therapeutics, talks with Sit and Deliver host Tom von Gunden about why an effective therapeutic response may well involve – you guessed it – a payload through the nose.

  7. Formulation Technologies For Developing Dry Powders For Inhalation

    Examine challenges and key considerations for spray-dried formulations for inhalation, along with a review of current technologies and approved products utilizing particle engineering approaches.

  8. An EDDO Identification Tutorial For A Metered Dose Inhaler (MDI) 4/23/2025

    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 uses a hypothetical case study for a meter dose inhaler (MDI) to demonstrate a template for identifying EDDOs.

  9. Drug Delivery And Digital Health: It's A Case Of Connectivity 5/23/2025

    In this segment of the Drug Delivery Leader Live online event, Innovations In Drug Delivery: Opportunities For Enhancing Familiar, Mature Approaches, James Wabby, head of global regulatory affairs for emerging device technologies and combination products at AbbVie, uses the example of a connected pen cap to discuss technology, patient, and market considerations at the intersection of drugs, devices, and data.

  10. URRA And UFMEA: Together Or Separate For Combination Products? 12/11/2024

    Both uFMEA (Use Failure Mode Effects Analysis) and URRA (Use-Related Risk Analysis) tools are available during combination product development for conducting risk assessments related to human factors. In this segment of the Drug Delivery Leader Live event Human Factors Risk Analysis: Leveraging URRA And UFMEA Tools, Natalie, Abts, head of human factors engineering at Genentech, and Shannon Hoste, chief scientific officer at Pathway for Patient Health, discuss scenarios in which a uFMEA might be used to inform a URRA regulatory submission.