How Can a Smaller Prefilled Syringe Transform Medical Logistics with Ian Speers & Robert Halvorsen

What if one of healthcare’s overlooked costs is something we’ve been shipping, storing, and working around for decades?

Pre-filled syringes make medication easier to administer

But their traditional design can take up valuable space in medical kits, hospitals, and throughout the supply chain.

In this episode, I sit down with 𝐈𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐬, CEO and Co-Founder, and 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐧, CTO and Co-Founder of 𝐏𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥, and the 2026 HealthTech Impact Award recipients in the category of BioTech, to unpack how they’re redesigning the pre-filled syringe to fit the same medication into a more compact package.

But this conversation goes beyond a syringe.

If you’re a healthcare founder or executive asking, 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘐 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯? 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘴? 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘐 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺?

Their journey offers some practical lessons.

𝗜𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲, 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻:

✅ How Ian’s experience in medical logistics exposed an overlooked supply-chain problem

✅ Why Pacto Medical started by redesigning the bulky plunger rod on pre-filled syringes

✅ How reducing packaging volume can affect transportation, storage, cost, and medication access

✅ Why the team chose the widely used 10 mL saline flush as its first market