Two dry powder inhalers have been named as finalists in the 2012 Medical Design Excellence Awards sponsored by Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry. Sun Pharmaceutical’s Combitide Starhaler and Novartis’s TOBI Podhaler with Pulmosphere technology are both nominated in the “General Hospital Devices and Therapetic Products” category. Cambridge Consultants received design credit for both DPIs.
The complete supply and design credits for the Combitide Starhaler go to Cambridge Consultants, Design Directions (Pune, India), Foboha GmbH (Haslach, Germany), Nypro Forbes Pvt. Ltd. (Hosur, India), Nypro Healthcare (Clinton, MA), and Sun Pharma Advanced Research Co. Ltd. (Vadodara, India). Design credit for the TOBI Podhaler goes to Cambridge Consultants with supply credit to Gerresheimer Medical Plastic Systems (Regensburg, Germany).
Winners will be announced at a ceremony in Pittsburgh, PA on May 23.
Read the MDEA press release.
