ARTICLES BY LOUIS

• The Next Generation Appreciates Our Outsourcing Industry

  7/22/2019

  Our future appears to be in good hands after all. Following on our earlier editorial, here’s a broader measure of the motivations and modus operandi of the youth inhabiting our drug development industry as we head into the 2020s … a decade they can conquer utilizing our outsourcing industry.

• Ending Generic Drug Shortages At Hospitals: A Capitalist Goes Nonprofit

  7/15/2019

  I hope Outsourced Pharma readers will enjoy this editorial with Civica Rx President & CEO Martin VanTrieste, featured in this month’s issue of Life Science Leader magazine. VanTrieste has a business plan that could set the generics industry on a new path of full disclosure of drug-manufacture origin, and direct delivery to the point of patient use. Part 2 of this feature will be released next month, with a direct focus on CDMOs and Civica. 

• CDER: Continuous Shouldn't Be Continuously Delayed

  7/8/2019

  The FDA wants continuous processing and manufacturing to move forward. CDER’s even sending emails and writing Impact Stories about the technology. Here’s what three biopharma industry experts — from Merck, BMS, and MIT — think about the pace of adoption.

• The New Outsourcers: Amylyx And The Next-Gen Biotechs

  6/28/2019

  Justin Klee and Joshua Cohen were just 21 and 22 when they co-founded Amylyx Pharmaceuticals in 2013, while pursuing undergraduate degrees at Brown University. Today, their insights about drug development and manufacturing outsourcing are nothing short of remarkable.

• Biopharma Leaders Need Lengthier Lists For Outsourcing Competency

  6/24/2019

  Essential at biopharma: comprehensive lists and analyses to ensure all aspects of your outsourcing (and internal activities) are thoroughly considered as you chart your path forward. "Think big, think long, and think detailed.” So says one biopharma professional who's done it successfully for decades.

• New FDA Quality Report – A World Full Of Inspections

  6/3/2019

  In 2018, FDA investigators performed 1,346 Drug Quality Inspections, covering 29% of what the agency calls it’s “site catalog.” Of those inspections, the majority (53%) were performed outside of the U.S. Here’s why that’s important, and more insight on these worldwide inspections from a newly issued FDA report.  

• Novartis And the Price Of A Child's Life

  5/29/2019

  We’ve been thrust from ruminating around the worth of a generic “human life” towards contemplating starker terms of specific two-year-old children. This thanks to Novartis’ gene-therapy Zolgensma, priced at $2.125 million. However, is this our hoped-for future of gene and cell therapies? The irony of life-saving drugs that financially cancel their celebration at the point of FDA approval?

• “We Do Everything” CDMO Pitch Not Pleasing Everybody

  5/23/2019

  Recent CDMO marketing extolling “the only end-to-end services" hasn’t been universally well received by the biopharma professionals it is targeting. Might we start questioning how truthful all CDMO marketing is as a result? That wouldn’t be good for the drug development and manufacturing outsourcing industry. 

• 10 Questions For “Make Vs. Buy” In Drug Development And Manufacturing

  5/16/2019

  The questions for “make vs. buy" raised by Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Christopher Sinko, SVP and Head of Product Development, are news because of this: Sinko reaffirms for us they remain cemented within the otherwise changing dynamics impacting drug development and manufacturing outsourcing decisions.

   

• Didn't Get The Memo On High Potency And Analytical Services?

  5/9/2019

  Didn’t you get the memo? Actually, the series of memos: Biopharma customers need more HP and analytical support. These two services keep popping up as limiting factors for drug development and manufacturing outsourcing programs. Now another of these memos has been written, by Doug Bakan, Arena Pharmaceuticals’ Executive Vice President, Technical Operations.