Louis Garguilo

ARTICLES BY LOUIS

  • 1/30/2023

    There are a number of varying and converging forces baring down on sponsors looking for CROs/CDMOs who can provide a full slate of services around their clinical-trial material. Both CDMOs and sponsors need to add or subtract from their strategies to adjust.

  • 1/24/2023

    While positive in tone, the 6th annual CPHI report demonstrates our outsourcing sands are indeed shifting. Which way for sponsors, CDMOs, and individual countries? Here's an analysis from our Chief Editor.

  • 1/19/2023

    There’s a broadening concern among U.S.-based drug and therapy developers regarding some of the challenges facing CDMOs in this country. Along with factors contributing to momentum for reshoring and investment in the U.S., we face some strong headwinds, including price and wage inflation.

  • 1/16/2023

    The top CDMO-selection criteria for Perry Calias, Chief Operations Officer, Revolo Biotherapeutics, and a veteran outsourcer, is redundancy. Redundancy laced with relationships, that is. Here's how it can work for you.

  • 1/9/2023

    You might say John Koleng has been living in the drug development and outsourcing future throughout his decades-long career. That career began in 1996 when as a grad student he helped cofound a CDMO. Today, as a VP at TFF Pharmaceuticals, he's as visionary as ever.

  • 1/3/2023

    “Stability and balance are critical in developing a new equilibrium with vendors across the drug development spectrum, and that means getting to a future where there’s a new normal to feel stable within," says Sara McCutchan of Aristea.

  • 12/29/2022

    If cell therapy is the art of engineering, the industrialization of these therapies – many of which are stymied by an inability to scale up or produce at various locations  –is fully contingent upon the application of engineering concepts and practices. Part two of our look into "cell therapy industrialization."

  • 12/26/2022

    Vered Caplan, CEO, Orgenesis, unintentionally grew captivated in our cell-therapy industry. Her first love, though, is engineering. Since 2014, she’s been combining the rigors of one with the miracle-making of the second. “You don't manufacture cells. What you're doing is engineering and reprogramming cells,” she says

  • 12/19/2022

    Executives say what began with the COVID-19 outbreak, and now the red flags raised over the state of the overall economy, feel like an inseparable supply-chain and outsourcing challenge. The unfortunate amalgam is expected to continue throughout 2023. Part 2 in our series ...

  • 12/14/2022

    “We have to change the team from doing drug development internally and internal research projects to those who are now client-centric and serving the pharmaceutical industry.” What we learn when sponsors become CDMOs.

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Louis Garguilo



Louis Garguilo is chief editor of Outsourced Pharma, and is considered a leading authority on the art and science of drug development and manufacturing outsourcing. He studied public relations and journalism at Syracuse University (and holds a Master’s in English). His widely read editorials are based on in-depth analysis and interviews with industry executives and professionals. Editorials are written in an engaging and unique style that guide readers through the macro aspects and subtle nuances of outsourcing, and working with contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs). Garguilo also serves as moderator for the various Outsourced Pharma Live webinars held throughout the year.

Prior to joining Outsourced Pharma in 2014, Garguilo spent a decade at a global pharmaceutical contract research, development and manufacturing organization, leaving the industry after attaining the role of vice president, business development and marketing. Additionally, he has served under the governor of New York in the state’s economic development agency, as liaison to the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry; as chief strategic officer for an e-learning software company; and spent most of the ‘80s and ‘90s in Japan as an educator, author, and communications consultant.