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Category: Analysis

sustainable medical packaging
Analysis

Sustainable pharmaceutical packaging without compromising safety or usability

24 Feb 2026

Exploring how pharmaceutical teams can reduce packaging impact while maintaining patient safety, usability, and regulatory compliance through evidence-led, system-level decisions.

Analysis

Why so few smokers have transitioned to Reduced Risk Products (and what the industry can do about it)

20 Jan 2026

This article challenges why reduced-risk products have failed to gain mass adoption, reframes the problem through smoker psychology, and proposes a strategic roadmap to accelerate meaningful tobacco harm reduction.

CGT Drug delivery devices to the brain
Analysis

Precision Delivery: The Missing Link In Cell & Gene Therapy

14 Jan 2026

This article examines why precision delivery has become the defining factor in cell and gene therapy success, explores how accuracy in location, distribution and dose can be engineered and demonstrated, and shows how a minimum viable product approach to delivery device development can help translate CGTs into safe, scalable clinical outcomes.

Analysis

Drug Delivery to the Brain: Engineering Precision Across Novel Modalities

2 Dec 2025

Delivering therapeutics into the brain remains one of the greatest challenges in tackling neurodegenerative disease. Modern drug modalities demand delivery systems engineered with precision, safety, and modality-specific requirements in mind.

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.

Analysis

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.

Analysis

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.

Analysis

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.

Analysis

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.

Analysis

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.

surgical robotics development, top robotic assisted surgery companies devices
Analysis

How fast can you bring new Surgical Robotics 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.

Parkinsons Infusion Device treatment
Analysis

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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