A New Variable-Dose, Cartridge-Based Pen Injector Platform For Diabetes Care

By Steven Kaufman, Vice-President, Drug Delivery Systems, and Uri Baruch, Head of Drug Delivery

Steven Kaufman is Vice-President, Drug Delivery Systems at Stevanato Group, responsible for managing business development, proposal management and project management as well as strategic initiatives in the group’s drug delivery systems business. He has been active in the drug delivery device field for more than 15 years, working with leading multinational biopharmaceutical companies to provide pen injectors, autoinjectors and wearable injection systems, as well as test equipment, assembly equipment and final device assembly services.

Uri Baruch is Head of Drug Delivery at Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP), where he has led a large variety of design projects including an award-winning needle safety device, an emergency autoinjector, a pen injector packaging design for delivery devices, and inhalation products. He is presently heading the collaboration with Stevanato Group on pen injector projects.

In this interview, Mr Kaufman and Mr Baruch discuss the recently announced collaboration between their two companies to accelerate the development of a new variable-dose, cartridge-based pen injector platform for diabetes care based on the Axis-D technology licensed from Haselmeier.