Transdermal Drug Delivery Videos

1. Enabling In-Home Drug Delivery With SMC's Asmita Khanolkar 12/10/2024

   Methods for enabling self-administered, in-home delivery of drugs and biologics must accommodate increasingly larger volumes and more complex formulations. In this episode of Supplier Horizons, host Tom von Gunden talks with Asmita Khanolkar, Senior Director of Pharma Services at contract manufacturer SMC Ltd., about patient-centric considerations such as ergonomics and tolerability in the development of combination products, autoinjectors, and other delivery systems.

2. Preparing For Combination Product Regulatory Inspections 4/11/2025

   In this episode of The Combination Products Handbook: The Series, host Tom von Gunden discusses Chapter 9 of The Combination Products Handbook: A Practical Guide for Combination Products and Other Combined Use Systems (CRC Press) with the book’s editor, Susan Neadle, and chapter co-author Kim Trautman.

3. When And How To Use A UFMEA During Device Design 12/11/2024

   When and how might using a uFMEA (Use Failure Mode Effects Analysis) tool benefit biopharma companies addressing regulatory expectations for analyses of risk and/or 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 potential differences in the contexts, purposes, and degrees of detail in information presented for review.

4. 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.

5. Why Start A URRA Early In Combination Product Design? 12/11/2024

   Both a URRA (Use-Related Risk Analysis) and IFU (Instructions for Use) can help to mitigate the risk of user misuse of a combination product. In this segment of the Drug Delivery Leader Live event Human Factors Risk Analysis: Leveraging URRA And UFMEA Tools, Shannon Hoste, chief scientific officer at Pathway for Patient Health, offers rationale for starting and conducting the URRA ahead of developing or finalizing IFU.

6. Understanding How EDDOs Relate To CGMPs 4/23/2025

   How are EDDOs (Essential Drug Delivery Outputs) related to CGMPs (Current Good Manufacturing Practices) during the design of a drug-led or biologic-led 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 establishes the connection between the two regulatory concepts.

7. Clarifying The EDDO Focus On Design Outputs, Not Design Inputs 10/9/2024

   In what ways are Essential Drug Delivery Outputs (EDDOs) different from design inputs for combination products? 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 difference.

8. Formulations, Devices, Regulations, and Patients: Two Takes On Drug Delivery Trends 3/14/2025

   In this unique episode of In Combination, series host Tom von Gunden, Chief Editor at Drug Delivery Leader, puts himself in combination with DDL Executive Editor Fran DeGrazio as the two share perspectives on drug delivery trends.

9. Who Is Responsible For Design Controls? 7/11/2024

   In this segment of the Drug Delivery Leader Live event New FDA QMSR: Its Role in Part 4 Compliance for Combination Products, DDL Executive Editor Fran DeGrazio asks consultants Laurie Auerbach of Compliance Prodigies and Ed Bills of Edwin Bills Consultant to identify which organization in a combination product manufacturing process are responsible for design controls – the sponsor company, the contracted component provider, or both.

10. Partnering On Patient Needs With DSM-Firmenich's George Mihov And Lukasz Koroniak 10/23/2024

    Principal Scientist George Mihov and Global Biomaterials Director Lukasz Koroniak from DSM-Firmenich join Supplier Horizons host Tom von Gunden to discuss partnering with pharma on formulation development. Among the topics covered are translational research, materials development, and complex molecules required for biologic-based therapies.