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Category: Analysis

Analysis

Delivering complexity: device considerations for two-component injectable formulations

8 Oct 2025

Two-component injectables promise more stable, effective treatments but create new hurdles in reconstitution and delivery. From lyophilised powders to dual-chamber systems, this article explores how device innovation is making complex therapies simpler, safer, and more accessible beyond the clinic.

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Heated Tobacco: A Lukewarm Success Story

22 Sep 2025

This article explores why heated tobacco remains niche despite major investment, showing how products prioritise compliance over experience and miss the simplicity and ritual smokers want. True progress will require rethinking design, physics, and industry-wide collaboration.

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The Disposable Vapes Ban: Harming Harm Reduction

17 Jul 2025

This article explores why most smokers haven’t embraced reduced-risk products, revealing how current vape and heated tobacco tech fails to deliver the ritual, satisfaction, and simplicity smokers still seek.

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Designed to deliver: How collaboration created an award-winning device that puts patients first

16 Jul 2025

Our work with Credence MedSystems won a 2025 Red Dot Design Concept Award – but more importantly, it could change the lives of countless people who need to self-administer two drugs in one injection at home. Read more on the three insightsbehind project success.

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Why Have So Few Smokers Transitioned to Reduced Risk Products?

29 May 2025

This article explores why most smokers haven’t embraced reduced-risk products, revealing how current vape and heated tobacco tech fails to deliver the ritual, satisfaction, and simplicity smokers still seek.

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Insights from ESCMID 2025: trends and future in diagnostic testing

23 May 2025

This article, featuring insights from James Blakemore and Leigh Shelford, explores how ESCMID 2025 marked a shift from technology-led innovation to outcome-led diagnostics. Covering key themes including AMR, syndromic testing, sequencing, and AI, it highlights why usability, integration, and real-world impact are now critical to platform success.

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How fast can you bring new RAS tech to market? Know the 3Cs to rapid development.

18 Apr 2025

This article, featuring insights from Tom Brittain, James Boonzaier and Jack Hornsby – the RAS leadership team at Cambridge Design Partnership – explores how a skunkworks approach, underpinned by capability, capacity and culture, enables surgical robotics companies to accelerate development, reduce risk, and bring new RAS technologies to market with speed and confidence.

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Navigating new frontiers: Bringing Parkinson’s treatments to new markets

6 Feb 2025

This article, authored by Steve Augustyn, featuring insights from Krai Chatamra, VP of Clinical Development at Intrance Medical Systems, explores the necessity of advanced therapies that provide consistent symptom control to improve patient outcomes and enable a more independent lifestyle.

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From platform to product: Accelerating time-to-market for platform technologies

29 Jan 2025

Fran Pencliffe of Cambridge Design Partnership explores the benefits of platform devices for parenteral delivery and outlines the challenges, risks and best practices when bringing a combination product to market in this way.

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Pump It Up: User-Centered Infusion Pumps on the Rise

14 Nov 2024

The pharma industry’s move towards larger volumes of subcutaneous (SC) therapeutics and home-based care is increasing the demand for self-administration devices. We recently partnered with KORU to explore innovations in infusion pump technology aimed at enhancing patient comfort and convenience

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Ocular Drug Delivery: Eyes on the Future 

8 Oct 2024

We recently partnered with Re-Vana Therapeutics, pioneers in sustained-release technologies for a range of eye diseases. In this article, Re-Vana's Patrick H. O'Ruane, along with Cambridge Design Partnership's Dariusz Zak and Fran Pencliffe, discuss how advancing sustained-release therapies can help ease the burden of acute treatments.

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Epinephrine Injectors: Tackling the Prickly Problem for Kids 

19 Sep 2024

We recently collaborated with Lent Innovations to explore critical issues in pediatric epinephrine injectors. Our latest article features insights from Dr. Annie Lent and our Deputy Head of Drug Delivery, Steve Augustyn.

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