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Brexit and the Implications for the Medical Device Industry
Louise reflects on upcoming changes and their potential impact.
Tag: Drug Delivery
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AI in healthcare, separating facts from fiction
James Baker, partner at Cambridge Design Partnership, considers the future for AI in the real world with help from a sideways look at its portrayal on the big screen.
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Separating new value from clinical trials
Richard proposes how innovation in blood processing could revolutionise clinical trial design.
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The patient is center stage at this year’s PDA Europe
The 2019 Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) Europe event was held recently in the beautiful Swedish city of Gothenburg, hosting over 950 attendees, including over 130 exhibiting companies – of which CDP was one. It’s always a great opportunity to catch up with industry colleagues, meet new ones and to hear…
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We’re off to see the wizard
Writing an expert view for ONdrugDelivery Magazine, Tom Lawrie-Fussey, Healthcare Digital Strategist, and Lucy Sheldon, Human Centered Design Consultant, both of Cambridge Design Partnership, introduce “Wizard of Oz” testing, named after the classic novel and film, whereby experimenters can field test concepts at a very early stage by giving the illusion of a…
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In packaged products, context is king
Chris Houghton leads Brand Innovation & Packaging at Cambridge Design Partnership, he has worked on an array of successful insight, design and strategic innovation projects with top consumer goods names including Arla, Carlsberg, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Nestle, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble and Unilever.Following his ‘Context is King’ keynote speeches at PACE in Amsterdam and AIPIA in…
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CDP create a remarkable ‘smart pill’ for Mars Petcare
A team from Cambridge Design Partnership has created a ground-breaking ‘smart pill’ to gather crucial nutritional information to help develop innovative new pet foods. CDP scientists and engineers worked with the world-renowned Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition on an electronic pill to collect food samples inside the canine gut during…
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Women’s work?
Women are still hugely under-represented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers. Only 22% of the UK STEM workforce is made up of women according to a 2018 study. In Engineering specifically, the stats are worse: only 12% of all professional engineers are women. Here at Cambridge Design Partnership,…
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6 steps to build winning biosimilar defence strategies through user and technology mapping
WEBINAR 6 steps to build winning biosimilar defence strategies through user and technology mapping With Pari Datta 14 MAY 2019 The market for biosimilars is growing rapidly at over 30% per annum, as increasingly more biological drugs are going off-patent and the rate of regulatory approvals increases. The major high-value…
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Drug Delivery Regulation – Highlights from DDF Berlin 2019
The Drug Delivery and Formulation Summit held in Berlin from March 12-14th offered a great opportunity to catch up on the current state of the industry. As a panellist in two sessions at the conference, here are the key regulatory insights I took away. The impact of changing regulations The…
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The new medical device regulation & the applicability of article 117 to medicinal products
This article was first published on Drug Development and Delivery.“Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.” For many involved in the medical and pharmaceutical industries within the last few years, this quote – attributed to American historian Joan Wallach…
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Eliminating user error from inhaler-based clinical studies
With inhaler use notoriously prone to user error, any clinical study that involves self-administration via an inhaler is challenging from the outset. Help is at hand, however, with a simple-but-smart device developed by Cambridge Design Partnership “So many things can go wrong when an inhaler is used to deliver a…