Louis Garguilo
ARTICLES BY LOUIS
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12/4/2023
For months, kept under stealth mode was an emerging cell-therapy company’s plans to spin out its development and manufacturing facility as a CDMO. No, not a stealth biotech. A stealth CDMO. Part 1 of an intriguing investigation.
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11/27/2023
The context and scope of what quality, regulatory, and technical teams – CMC development professionals – need to accomplish has changed dramatically. It’s a different paradigm, and when you add a CDMO to the mix, it's a very interesting conversation.
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11/20/2023
“As unpopular as this may be with your readership ... I think it's important to own, control, have complete oversight and a seamless process at an internal manufacturing facility with your own team.” No worries about being controversial, CEO Brian Culley. Please go on.
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11/16/2023
Is this an example of a therapy developer with “platform technology” ostensibly pursuing its own pipeline, but also offering services as a contract manufacturer? Lineage CEO Brian Culley says no. He has a different model in mind.
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11/13/2023
How would you go about looking for a modest-sized facility in the U.S. to establish your own development and clinical-stage manufacturing platform? How might a CDMO go about it today? We started this path of inquiry in our previous editorial. Today, the actual tour.
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11/6/2023
An India-based CDMO sets up shop in New Jersey to establish continuous manufacturing (CM) operations to target biologics customers in the U.S. How did this deal materialize? What's it say about our industry? An intriguing backstory.
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11/1/2023
“What’s interesting about being at a CDMO,” says Matthew Johnson, “is as much as you learn about your own organization, you get unique insights into the various biotechs and pharma companies relying on you. I learned to look for how they operated internally, but also if they understood our concerns as well.”
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10/30/2023
After decades working at CDMOs, Matthew Johnson decided to give it a go directly pushing along NCEs at a biopharma. The company he selected for this new endeavor has an interesting organizational matrix – components of an international, external-internal supply chain.
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10/23/2023
“We’re working on oligonucleotides,” says the bubbling biotech. “We can do oligos!” cries the eager CDMO. So it’s a deal? Hang on, says Tony Sampognaro, Director, CMC Project Management, at oligo-focused Stoke Therapeutics.
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10/16/2023
Tony Sampognaro of Stoke Therapeutics recently received his MBA. He thinks many others in our industry should do so as well. He believes its what we need to outsource more efficiently, and work better with CDMOs.