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West’s SmartDose® platform has been selected as a finalist in the 19th Annual Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) competition. Considered the medtech industry’s premier design competition, MDEA recognizes significant achievements in medical product design and engineering and the many people behind the scenes—engineers, scientists, designers and clinicians—who are responsible for the cutting-edge products that are improving patient healthcare.
For the 2017 MDEA, a jury of healthcare practitioners, designers, engineers, manufacturers and human factors experts selected finalists in nine medical technology product categories. Products were judged based on design and engineering innovation; function and user-related innovation; patient benefits; business benefits; and overall benefit to the healthcare system. West’s SmartDose platform is a finalist in the for the “Drug-Delivery and Combination Products” category.
The SmartDose platform is a single-use, electronic wearable injector that adheres to the patient’s body, usually on the abdomen. Discreet, intuitive, and designed to minimize discomfort, the SmartDose platform currently incorporates a polymer-based drug container (made from Daikyo Crystal Zenith® cyclic olefin polymer) with a drug delivery device that can be pre-programmed to deliver high volumes of viscous or sensitive drug products over time, making it easier for patients to self-administer medication outside of the clinical setting.
While developing the SmartDose platform, it became clear that when patients deem a drug delivery system inconvenient, there can be a negative effect on the emotional attitude and motivation to sustain adherent behavior. As a result, the SmartDose platform was developed with extensive human factors testing to address potential obstacles to compliance:
This year’s winners will be announced at the 2017 MDEA Ceremony on June 13, 2017, in conjunction with MD&M East event at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York. To learn more about the Medical Design Excellence Awards and the list of finalists, visit MDEAwards.com.
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span>West is pleased to announce new extensions of the SmartDose® drug delivery platform, including several new wearable injectors that allow for up to 10 mL of volume to be injected in easy-to-use, wearable formats. The new devices were showcased at the annual PDA Universe of Pre-filled Syringes and Injection Devices conference in Vienna, Austria, in November. </span></p>
<span style="color: #000000;">West has completed a preliminary study of its SmartDose® technology platform, which incorporates a Daikyo Crystal Zenith® (CZ) cartridge. The study evaluated multiple attributes of the technology and subjects’ experience with the self-application process. </span>
In a previous <a href="/zh-cn/blog/2012/may/lifecycle-planning"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">post</span></a>, my colleague Fran DeGrazio discussed lifecycle planning and the use of a single material for packaging components from development through commercialization. There has been a great deal of innovation around drug container materials. Although glass has been the traditional material of choice for drug containment, it has significant limitations including breakage, glass particulate, visual quality and functional performance.
I’ve worked at West for 28 years. I lead our Venture Group, Global Labs, and Data Science Team; I’ve spent most of my career in R&D. There’s an expectation from our customers that West will lead the way in developing new products. Ones that are going to be better for patients, easier to use and more cost efficient for the health system. That expectation drives a lot of the R&D work we do.
West is pleased to announce that it has commenced discussions with Swissfillon AG, a provider of aseptic fill and finish services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, that are intended to lead to a non-exclusive global collaboration to provide fill-finish capabilities to customers using West’s proprietary SmartDose drug delivery platform for complex molecules. West made the announcement at PharmaPack 2019, the annual conference for pharmaceutical packaging and drug delivery, held February 6-7 in Paris.
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