The Opportunity
The promise of intradermal delivery is immense and includes:
- Enhanced immune response
- Dose-sparing
- Improved patient compliance
- Faster onset of action
A variety of approaches to intradermal delivery exist, however, they have all struggled to realise the intradermal promise. Key reasons for this include:
- Complex and difficult injection techniques & devices
- Inconsistent needle penetration to exact depths, leading to doses being delivered to the incorrect compartment (i.e., not intradermally)
- Incomplete dose-delivery, i.e., spray back/leakage from injection site
- Restricted volumes and viscosities, limiting clinical application
- Regulatory concerns (due to aforementioned issues)
- Complex regulatory pathways (medical device vs combination product).
- The Pharma Latch Hollow is a medical device, (FDA 510 (k) pathway) and is suitable for use with any formulation
Pharma Latch overcomes the user-dependency and subsequent variability associated with traditional intradermal injection techniques (and devices). The Latch Platform manipulates the biomechanics of the skin in order to achieve simple, consistent needle-insertion and dose-delivery, every time.
The Problem & Pharma Latch Solution
Fundamentally, we believe that there are two major barriers that have limited the adoption of intradermal as a route of administration.
- Usability
- Injectability
Usability
Using traditional methods (and some devices), the approach angle and resulting extent of needle-insertion are user-dependent, leading to administration difficulty and high variability.
With Pharma Latch, the angle of needle-insertion and resulting insertion depth are fixed, and a function of the devices themselves, not the user.
This ensures simple, consistent, needle-depth penetration and injection confidence.
Pharma Latch Injectability
Standard injection techniques (and some devices) compress and deform the skin.
As a result, the difficulty of achieving a consistent needle insertion depth is compounded, as the underlying skin layers are deformed.
Additionally, high-injection pressures are observed, limiting volume and viscosity capabilities and leading to dose spray-back and leakage.
Pharma Latch avoids skin compression and deformation.
As a result, we can achieve consistent needle-insertion depth and complete dose-delivery of any liquid formulation to the correct depth, every time.
How The Latch Platform Functions
