Technology and product design firm Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) has unveiled a new approach to pharmaceutical packaging. An intuitive design coupled with an injection of fun has resulted in a single-use medicine pouch that is a world away from traditional pharmaceutical packaging.The BeeBetter pouch is easy to use – the…
www.linkedin.com/in/conor-devine-0566b286/As Europe’s dedicated pharmaceutical packaging and drug delivery event, Pharmapack is the industry’s go-to place to kick off the year. At least that’s what the event website says and, after my visit, I’m inclined to agree. With 411 companies exhibiting their services in everything from primary, secondary and tertiary packaging…
As someone who was originally trained as a physicist, I am often asked how I have found myself in an innovation insight and research role – something more commonly associated with social science rather than technical disciplines. I can be honest and reply that, at the outset of my career,…
Las Vegas is crazy – and the CES tech show is even crazier. I needed a long drive through Death Valley and Yosemite afterwards to work out what on earth I’d witnessed.CES is full of ideas and new, shiny gadgets – but, just like Vegas, not all that glitters is…
Coming back from the Christmas and New Year break, I realised how blessed I am. I’m in good health, I’ve been able to spend enjoyable time with my family and I’ve now returned to my exciting job surrounded by a team of enthusiastic and very smart people. For many people,…
Currently, the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is responsible for just under a third of applications and updates for European medicinal product marketing authorisations – but on 29 March 2019 the UK will no longer be part of the European Union (EU). I was struck by the enormity…
Having recently returned from Seoul, it struck me that the Korean beauty and cosmetics market is markedly different from Western markets. Whilst Western culture – particularly the US – has had an impact on beauty ideals, there is an exciting revolution of South Korean beauty and cosmetic products which are…
On returning from Vienna and PDA’s excellent Universe of Pre-filled Syringes and Injection Devices event, I wanted to share my thoughts on some of the themes I saw emerging from the conference:1. Hearing the voice of the patient direct – during the pre-conference workshop, Markus Bauss from SHL presented two talks by…
As part of our review of the new European Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) earlier this year, one of the topics that caught our eye was the expansion and clarification of the rules regarding clinical data for medical devices.The difference between a clinical investigation and a clinical evaluation Many people colloquially…
Globally, about a third of all the food produced for human consumption every year is wasted – roughly 1.3 billion tonnes – according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Consumers in richer countries waste almost as much food (222 million tonnes) each year as the entire…
It took 13 years and £2 billion to sequence the human genome back in 2003. Fast forward 15 years to today and next-generation sequencing (NGS) can do it for less than $1,000 in a matter of days. High-throughput sequencing technologies, computational power and data-mining techniques have opened up a whole…
It weighs 7.5 tonnes and is powered by both a jet engine and a rocket, which together will produce over 135,000 bhp – more than six times the power of all the Formula 1 cars on a starting grid put together. It has temperatures inside the rocket that reach 3,000°C…