West Pharmaceutical Services (NYSE:WST) announced that it completed the sale of its SmartDose on-body delivery system to AbbVie. Exton, Pennsylvania-based West sold and transferred its manufacturing and supply rights for the SmartDose 3.5mL on-body delivery system and associated facilities to AbbVie. The companies closed their transaction, as planned, on July 1, 2026. West will continue […]
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West turns to Swissfillon for clinical filling of SmartDose drug delivery platform
West recently announced that it is forming a partnership with Swissfillon AG in which Swissfillon will provide fill-finish capabilities to customers using West’s proprietary SmartDose drug delivery platform. The partnership, which West announced last month at PharmaPack 2019 in Paris, will enable West to deliver filled Daikyo Crystal Zenith cartridges for the SmartDose wearable injector. […]
Drug delivery devices: Here is West’s plan for success
West Pharmaceutical Services is betting that an embrace of human factors engineering and experiential design will allow its drug delivery devices such as its SmartDose and SelfDose to stand apart from the crowd. People are more likely to take their medications properly if a device is easy to use, Eric Resnick, vice president and chief […]
