UniSafe – Bringing safety devices into the 21st century

We interview the winners of the Pharmapack Europe Awards 2023, which were held at Pharmapack in Paris. The winners, chosen by a jury, each developed an innovative solution in the categories of Drug Delivery Innovation, Packaging Innovation, Sustainability Initiative, Eco-Design, and Patient-Centric Design. 

In recent years there are several market trends which are influencing the design of drug delivery devices. The shift to patient care outside the traditional healthcare setting, accelerated by the pandemic, has led to an increase in patient self- treatment. This has also resulted in the need for connected drug delivery devices to enable remote patient monitoring and transfer of key medication data to healthcare providers. The data collected allows healthcare practitioners to both check levels of medication adherence and also provide the necessary interventions to help improve patient compliance. Another key influence is the growing importance of sustainability and the need to reduce the environmental impact of single-use devices.
This presentation will show how the UniSafe® reusable Auto-injector addresses these challenges by providing simplified, mechanical drug delivery with the option of added connectivity features. The reusable design also helps to reduces waste and environmental impact.

We are pleased to announce the winners from the Pharmapack Europe Awards 2023 at this year's event in Paris. 

Drug development, particularly of biologics can be expensive and run over several years. One of the challenges for formulation and clinical development teams is identifying devices for use in early formulation and clinical studies, where the performance characteristics and clinical safety are being assessed, without the device negatively influencing the results. Having a device platform that can be introduced into the formulation and clinical development as early as necessary with minimal impact on development timelines could go along way to simplifying the product development cycle.

In this webinar, originally broadcast as part of the Pharmapack Europe show, speakers Michael Earl, Director Pharmaceutical Services, Sian Eden Business Development Manager, Olivia Houselander Business Development Manage, Denis Marteau General Manager, Pharmaceutical Services, Oli Gould Design Team Manager - Design Engineering, Research & Development, Rob Jordan Design Engineer, Research & Development from Owen Mumford discusses the introduction of auto-injectors and the technologies they originally employed some decades ago. Moving on to explore more recent trends in the market which have influenced the evolving design & development of drug delivery devices. Representatives from Owen Mumford R&D team reviews the innovative technologies employed in the Aidaptus® auto-injector and what benefits these offer to pharmaceutical companies during drug development, clinical trials and life cycle management. Our business development team will look at how elements of auto-injector design facilitate patients drug administration and ensure complete drug delivery.

UniSafe 1mL and UniSafe 2.25 Combined.

A spring-less, passive safety device for 1mL prefilled syringes, designed for simple assembly and use. This device has a simple 2-step final assembly, secure plunger prevents removal, spillage and repeat use.

UniSafe 1mL has the following benefits:
- User confidence with an unobscured syringe barrel for full dose visibility
- Prevention of accidental activation
- Passive needle retraction and complete shielding
- Intuitive to use - same injection technique as a prefilled syringe.

UniSafe®️ 2.25 is the latest addition to Owen Mumford Pharmaceutical Services’ UniSafe®️ platform. Designed for higher volume and higher viscosity drugs, UniSafe 2.25, like the on market 1 mL version, has a unique spring-free design and integrates critical safety features. UniSafe 2.25 is intuitive and simple to use , its large comfortable plunger head and finger flange design make it is easy to operate, even for patients with reduced strength or dexterity.