Louis Garguilo
ARTICLES BY LOUIS
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12/1/2021
I’m old enough to be concerned with inflation in the US because of direct experience in the '70s. Experience was also Vadim Klyushnichenko's starting point for a discussion on today’s inflation. His experience was in Russia in the '90s. Perhaps both he and I are overreacting? You be the judge.
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11/23/2021
Rising inflation in the U.S. is a major worry for biopharma CEOs who – as most all of them do – rely on outsourcing drug development and manufacturing. But what politicians and others are trying to enact here is not going to accomplish what they want – lower drug prices. And it's not helping U.S.-based CDMOs.
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11/18/2021
We do so because many CDMOs there provide excellent drug/therapy development and manufacturing services, pricing is lower, available skilled workforce, etc. But we are also propelled there by circumstances created by political policy and societal fiat.
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11/17/2021
Year two of COVID closes precariously as we face multiplying supply-chain challenges, and mounting inflation. What of drug development and manufacturing outsourcing specifically? I asked executives how much these two factors are affecting projects, particularly related to working with CDMOs.
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11/12/2021
Here’s how a relatively simple acquisition announcement in a corner of our biotech industry led us to a multifaceted analysis of global drug development and manufacturing outsourcing. (Part 1)
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11/8/2021
After 20 years, Tom Holmes was leaving Biogen. He’d take his time deciding what came next. I was surprised by his final choice. He hitched his career to Amylyx, a company combining well-known small-molecules as a new drug for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He thinks others should make similar career changes
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11/1/2021
Are big cities in the U.S. amenable to biomanufacuting operations? Are they great places to live and work? I have some doubts. In a recent discussion, [Joseph Fetterman](https://www.colliers.com/en/experts/joseph-fetterman), Executive Vice President, Colliers Life Sciences, tried to disabuse me of them. He has the blueprint to demonstrate his optimism.
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10/28/2021
Remember when a lack of capacity was going to feel like a massive concrete slab blocking the road to a biopharmaceutical revolution? Instead, it's felt like so many bricks placed in the paths of individual drug development programs. Now CDMOs are building to meet demand. Is it the right kind of capacity?
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10/22/2021
2.4 million sq ft of dormant industrial space undergoing adaptive reuse development as a biomanufacturing center in the heart of Philadelphia. Do we have your attention? Cell and gene therapy companies, CDMOs, Big Pharma: All are welcome to the renaissance.
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10/18/2021
Today, cell-and-gene companies need knowledge support, and thus a “new sort of consultancy partnership focused on process development and advice-giving, not just routine CDMO contracts for services.” “CDMO 2.0” can materialize in an increasingly familiar form – drug-developer/service-provider hybrid organization.