Capacity is the new capability: meeting market demand
At the recent PDA Universe of Prefilled Syringes and Injection Devices conference in Phoenix Arizona, there were many conversations about the manufacturing landscape for drug delivery devices.
More needs to be done to help the NHS with their sustainability targets
This year’s theme at ReMed was ‘Beyond Disposable: Building a Circular Economy for Medical Devices’ and had a focus on interdisciplinary collaboration. The common theme throughout the conference was the recognition and drive to take practical, immediate actions towards a more circular econom
The rise of the next-Ggn CDMO: strategies for reducing risk and time to market
Creating and producing advanced drug-device combinations, like autoinjectors and pen injectors, requires a depth and breadth of technical expertise.
Scalable solutions for sample preparation in diagnostics: a practical perspective
Advances in precision medicine and diagnostics over the past decade have the potential to improve patient outcomes by decreasing the time needed to identify a disease or pathogen and adjust patient treatment, whether they are to address rising cases of antibiotic resistance, viral epidemics or fa
Does my medical device design actually work?
There are few experiences that can surpass the joy of seeing a product you developed reach manufacture. But before that, you face the non-trivial task of proving your current embodiment can actually work and meet its design intent.
Introducing our state-of-the-art human factors study facility
Springboard Pro Ltd writes: we are pleased to announce an enhancement to our human factors capabilities with the introduction of our new dedicated human factors facility.
Start up grant aims to support medical device industry innovation
Springboard Pro proudly announces the launch of its 2024 Start-up Grant. This program is specifically tailored to assist fledgling medical device start-ups in the design and development of early-phase concepts with a £20,000 Springboard project.
Sanner Group strengthens medical device design and development capabilities with the acquisition of Springboard Pro
Sanner Group, a leading global healthcare packaging manufacturer and medical device Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation (CDMO) has acquired Springboard, a specialist in the design and development of medical devices for regulated markets.
Expanding Springboard’s commitment to delivering user-centred excellence
Introducing our new senior Human Factors lead: Marcu Agunloye.
Springboard welcomes Alex Vasiev in his new role
Springboard Pro, a leading engineering consultancy company based in Cambridge, UK, is pleased to announce the addition of Alex Vasiev to the team as a business development manager and engineer.
R&D project support for startups
For startups, research and development (R&D) is a crucial part of building your product. Here you can explore and develop your idea, technologies, and methodologies that can help bring your solution to the market.
Organ-On-Chip Devices Show Promise In Drug Discovery
There is growing interest in the potential uses for organ-on-chip devices as a novel tool for drug discovery.
The next generation of microneedles; harnessing a billion years of evolution
In this article, we consider examples of nature’s solutions to four challenges faced by microneedles for drug delivery. For each challenge, the authors explain how a natural organism has tackled it and what lessons may be directly applied to microneedle design.
Ablation devices: The current landscape and emerging technologies
As few incisions and as small as possible is the overwhelming trend in current surgical treatments, a trend strongly driven by robotic-assisted surgery but also by
A Sight for Sore Eyes: Challenges and Innovations in Ophthalmic Drug Delivery
Ethan Miller and Kristien De Clercq discuss recent advancements and current challenges in the field of ophthalmology, including the trend towards preservative-free multidose delivery systems, delivering smaller topical volumes with increased drug efficacy, slow-release injections f
Product design, user experience and gender equality – can it work?
The theme for International Women’s Day this year focusses on gender equality.
UX design can make or break your product
UX design to influence a change in behaviour from the user and how that can be used to improve adherence to medication and encourage more sustainable behaviours.
Transfer to manufacture: selecting a partner
It is a nightmare scenario: you have a great product and commercial opportunity, but you are going to be late to launch because of delays in the transfer to manufacture. It is stressful, the boss is hounding you, and your focus is stolen away from all the other important things you need to be doing.
Springboard bolsters electronic engineering department with new hire
Springboard has announced that they have welcomed Mike Beck to the electronic engineering team.
Taking the Sting out of Vaccines
Cast your mind into the future and imagine the world in the grips of the next global respiratory pandemic. We have the monumental task of vaccinating the world against a novel pathogen. How should we achieve this?
Robot-assisted surgical trends in 2023 and beyond
Robotic-assisted surgery has been making its way into the operating room (OR) for decades, boosting minimally invasive general surgery, enhancing orthopaedics, and enabling precision-guided catheter systems—with continued improvements leading to complex systems such as Intuitive’s market-leading da Vinci. The benefits of these systems are widely accepted: articulated tools and HD cameras provide…
How can a wooden plank help amputees ride a bike?
At Springboard we are combining our technical ability and charitable efforts to work on a project with Humanos3D, a charity based in Medellin, Colombia. Some of the problems the charity are trying to solve are more complex and require iterative design and engineering expertise to meet the needs of the user; Springboard chose to take on one of the unsolved cases. We started out with a plank of…
Springboard wins Mixed Crew event at the annual Dragon Boat Festival
Springboard are proud winners of the mixed crew event at the Dragon Boat Festival that was held over the weekend. The race was in aid of the local Addenbrookes Charitable Trust, a much-loved charity in the Cambridge area.
New technology heralds smoother injections
You know that horrid juddering noise that windscreen wipers make sometimes? This is caused by alternate sticking and slipping of rubber on glass. The same phenomenon occurs with the rubber plunger in a glass syringe, albeit with more serious consequences including uncomfortable injections, variability in dosing, and wastage of drug.
Delivering the most viscous drug ever put in an autoinjector
Autoinjectors offer patients a smart way to get their medication. Some drugs however can be too viscous for this type of delivery. Find out how Springboard helped a client solve the tricky problem of administering a highly viscous drug via and autoinjector, helping patients around the world to access their medication.