ARTICLES BY LOUIS

• What's A South Korean CDMO Doing On A New Jersey Campus?

  8/24/2022

  What’s a South Korean company doing with a CDMO on the campus of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)? The answer has both specific and global implications for our drug development and manufacturing outsourcing industry. Here's the full story and the potential implications.

• “We're Not A Company Without Continuous Manufacturing”

  8/19/2022

  Lyndra Therapeutics is designing in-house a specialized, continuous and automated manufacturing line to manufacture its new long-acting oral-drug products. Someday, it hopes to export that line to partners around the world. The strategy starts with a basic scientific knowledge that propels an organization to continuous.”

• A Star Is Born To Deliver Drugs: Can It Be Outsourced?

  8/15/2022

  A miniature manmade “star” – with round middle and triangular arms – collapses to fit into a capsule and provides patients an oral drug. The creators of this device-like drug are devoted to production through continuous manufacturing. Can the company also outsource some of what they've developed internally?

• Should You Hire Talent Away From Your CDMOs?

  8/10/2022

  There's a hiring crunch out there, and today drug sponsors are recruiting from inside some of their CDMOs. Is that a good strategy? We'll take a look at both sides of the equation.

• No Matter Modality, A Methodology For Managing CDMOs

  8/3/2022

  Steve Goodman, Vertex Pharmaceuticals has been outsourcing development and manufacturing for years. “I’ve been successful because my approach to managing a CDMO is mostly agnostic to modality,” he says. Here are a few more of his best practices.

• Executive Director, AAV: Title As Leading Indicator

  7/27/2022

  Steve Goodman’s new title at Vertex Pharmaceuticals catches the eye: Executive Director, AAV Process Development and Manufacturing. It points us to where our industry is rapidly heading. In fact, we might say Goodman himself has been a leading indicator. 

• Erase Generics From Your Vocabulary

  7/20/2022

  I first described Cosette Pharmaceuticals as an “innovative specialty generics” organization, but President & CEO Apurva Saraf had us questioning all three of those words, and how we use them (or shouldn't) today.

• Safe At Home With Generics

  7/13/2022

  “I have not wanted to go to India or China for most of my API needs, and to the extent possible I do not want to go there for formulations either,” is part of a surprising sentiment from a long-tenured generics outsourcing professional.  

• “Hypercare” When It's Critical At Your CDMO

  7/11/2022

  When it reaches criticality at your CDMO – like the potential delivery delay of clinical material – it’s "Hypercare" time. That’s the word coined at Alexion Therapeutics for an intensified coordination and managing of activities at CDMOs in crucial moments. Read on: Hypercare might be right for you, too.

• An Unexamined Life Is Risky Business

  7/1/2022

  Have you sufficiently examined the “life” of your drug development and manufacturing outsourcing? If you rely on outsourcing as an external life force to get you into and through the clinic (and perhaps beyond), how you answer that has never been more important.