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Drug Delivery

Novel therapies are changing the face of medicine. Getting them safely to patients requires innovative drug delivery. When you encounter a challenge where the solution seems just out of reach, or you need a partner in innovation, Battelle’s scientists, engineers, human-centered designers, and world-class facilities can help deliver your product to market with confidence.
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Enabling Your Drug Delivery Success

From commonplace devices to bleeding-edge technologies, we know the road to market and we’re excited to help you navigate it with a map to success. Our multi-disciplinary team of experts can help get your drug delivery device to market on time and on budget.

We share your vision of a successful commercialized product approved by regulators, favored by users, and scalable to meet your business requirements. Our methodologies identify and retire risks to support successful product launches regardless of your stage in the development process.

Engineered Solutions


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Handheld Injection


For over 20 years, Battelle has pushed the boundaries of platform architecture, user needs, and elegantly simple designs. Leveraging requirements and domain knowledge, we develop practical and intuitive devices for existing and new therapeutics.

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On-Body Infusion


On-body infusors are wearable drug delivery devices designed to drive subcutaneous infusion of larger volumes of medication in a user-preferred footprint. Battelle has been engaged in the design, engineering, user evaluation, and testing of these devices for over a decade.

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Inhalation


Battelle’s unique and diverse capabilities around particle physics, aerosol characterization, airway modeling, and human factors have resulted in the design and commercialization of safer and more effective inhalation delivery systems, engineered around patient constraints.

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Emerging Modalities


New molecules often require novel delivery solutions tailored to unlock their full potential. Successful commercialization requires a methodology for assessing both requirements and risks. At Battelle, you will find partners who leverage decades of experience to navigate the roads not previously taken.

Non-Viral Drug Delivery

We know you are dedicated to delivering better drugs to patients, faster. Our non-viral drug delivery (NVDD) experts are scaling the power of polymer nanoparticles to bring the promise of genetic medicine to everyone.
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Innovating Inside the Box


A well-considered drug delivery system can maximize the effectiveness of innovative, small molecule and biologic therapies. But how do you choose the best system for your drug?

 

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Featured Experts

  • Gabe Meister

    Research Leader
    Gabe Meister is a Sr. Scientist with 20 years of experience working in the discovery and preclinical phases of vaccine and drug development. Dr. Meister has led multiple programs at Battelle that have resulted in FDA approval of novel therapeutics for the treatment of rare and life-threatening diseases. Most recently Dr. Meister leads a diverse group of scientists and engineers in developing novel drug delivery technologies.

  • Steve Huckaby

    Principal Mechanical Engineer

    Mr. Huckaby has over 28 years of experience as a mechanical engineer focused on medical device design and development. At Battelle, his work includes product definition and concept generation, requirements definition, detail mechanical design and analysis, electromechanical system layout and integration, verification and validation testing, and manufacturing transition and follow-on support.

  • Corrie Bennison

    Program Manager

    Ms. Bennison is a Program Manager in Battelle’s Medical Device group. She has over 17 years of medical device product development experience. These projects have included a range of disciplines and various phases of product development such as early feasibility, human centric design, verification, and validation. Her past work includes design and development of infusion and dialysis pumps, a urine analysis system, insulin injectors, auto-injectors, patch pumps, sensing systems, and neurotechnology devices.

  • Tony Duong, Ph.D.

    Lead Drug Delivery Scientist
    Dr. Duong has 14 years of experience performing polymer and lipid nano/microparticle drug delivery research and building agile biomedical research teams with competitive intellectual property strategies. His experiences in academia and industry have allowed him to develop a unique understanding of nanoscience combined with a knowledge of the patent landscape to form competitive intellectual property strategies. At Battelle, he has led technical efforts on several programs, bringing together business development and technical teams spanning national security, environment and agriculture, and heath.

  • Thom Haubert

    Director of Mechanical Engineering

    Thom has 34 years of experience in providing engineering development and project management services to a variety of Battelle programs. His expertise is in mechanical design of medical and commercial product development, and machine design. He has led the development of products from concept to manufactured design. His technical focus has been on product and machine design, component testing and Design for Manufacturing techniques. He currently manages the Innovation Division in Battelle’s Medical Device Solutions group and holds 34 US patents for his designs.

  • André LaFreniere

    Vice President, Commercial Business Development and Sales Medical Device, Pharma/Drug Delivery, Data Science, Health
    André LaFreniere leverages his 20 years of experience in healthcare technology to advance opportunities and solve challenges in healthcare. Andre’s product development and commercialization knowledge spans collaborations with commercial clients across pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, diagnostics, and healthcare systems to solve complex problems and change healthcare for the better. 

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Innovation requires multidisciplinary scientific and engineering collaboration. Our Solvers at Battelle combine multiple chemistry disciplines like these with other applied sciences and engineering expertise to deliver comprehensive client solutions.

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Data science expertise is at the core of our multidisciplinary approach. Our experts, called “Solvers” at Battelle, combine data science disciplines like these with applied engineering and science to deliver comprehensive client solutions in government and industry.

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Real-world solutions require multidisciplinary scientific and engineering collaboration. Our experts, called “Solvers” at Battelle, combine multiple engineering disciplines like these with other applied sciences to deliver comprehensive client solutions.

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