ARTICLES BY LOUIS

• Don't Fear The Machine – A Biologist Explains AI In The BioPharma Industry

  9/7/2026

  "I should have known," writes Chief Editor Louis Garguilo, "It takes an accomplished biologist to most effectively describe the significance of artificial intelligence in our outsourcing industry, and put it to practical use." That professional is Damiano Dragone, Founder & Principal Advisor, Dragone Consulting, who built a career across pharmaceutical quality and data-driven quality environments within the biopharmaceutical industry, and was an early proponent of the promise of AI in quality, development and manufacturing, and the supply chain. 

• Catalent Says It's Not Our Facility; It Belongs To Novo Nordisk

  9/3/2026

  The FDA informed us again in April that the Bloomington, Indiana, facilities owned by Catalent until sold to Novo Nordisk in December 2024, have not solved quality issues. This adds to an FDA inspection/poor response and remediation history years long in the making. How is it we are witnessing this at a U.S. facility run by a name-brand CDMO and then Big Pharma? Catalent, for its part, wants to stop "inaccuracies in media coverage." Here's analysis from an experienced pharma professional and our own Chief Editor Louis Garguilo.

• ATMP Development Gets A Boost From Outsourcing Best Practices

  8/31/2026

  Innovation requires new thinking and approaches. It also heightens the need for disciplined execution. With ATMP development – as well as with any program – starting out on a path lined with outsourcing principles may prove your greatest competitive advantage. A discussion from Chief Editor Louis Garguilo.

• The U.S. Supply-Chain Uncovered: A Superior Search For Domestic Suppliers

  8/24/2026

  The search for supply chain partners goes on. Intensely. But productively? Are we missing anything? We are about to learn the answer to that is yes.  Alan Davis, President & CEO, i5 Services says puzzling is how little these searches vary – and he's concerned that invariance has negative national supply-chain implications. He has a mission and a search platform to change that.

• Outsourcing Growth, And The Cold (Storage Monitoring) Truth

  8/17/2026

  Chief Editor Louis Garguilo superimposes two reports: one on a precise subject, cold chain monitoring; the second an analysis of the entire contract manufacturing market.  What brings the two together? "Growth, its various components, and interpretations." The cold chain monitoring report is prime example of the components of growth demonstrated in the overall biopharma outsourcing market report.

• Lower Court Agrees With WuXi AppTec (And Many Of Us)

  8/14/2026

  A lower-court ruling does not make a victory. But it adds a little sanity to this melodrama. On August 7, a U.S. District Judge did something that has been surprisingly rare in the long-running WuXi AppTec/BIOSECURE Act saga: He looked at the U.S. government's case for labeling WuXi a “Chinese military company” and decided the government had not shown enough evidence. Analysis from Chief Editor Louis Garguilo.

• Mission-Driven Professionals And Students Build America's Supply Chains

  8/10/2026

  Tales of purpose-led careers that bring innovations to business leaders and opportunities to university students. They inspire us. Chief Editor Louis Garguilo documents two such professionals who have combined to help domestic manufacturing organizations locate each other and power their operations, and to get students involved in the industry.

• Global Ties, Good Fortune Bind Biotech And CDMO

  8/3/2026

  Asset development and outsourcing strategies can be intriguing, and full of global connections. Those attributes surface immediately in a conversation with Hyung Heon Kim, Chief Executive Officer and President, MetaVia, a Cambridge, Mass.-based biotech. The company reformed recently, but has roots back to 90 years of South Korean pharma history. Tracing the CDMO relationship MetaVia has is also part of the organization’s history. “Ours is a fun journey to tell,” says Kim. Fun, informative, and enlightening.

• Are Drug Sponsors Reshaping Today's CDMOs?

  7/27/2026

  CDMO mergers and acquisitions and the addition of services has been a dominating trend in outsourcing; comprehensive offerings and scale are proclaimed indispensable to customers. Sufficient time has now elapsed so we can evaluate this era of more and those claims.  Chief Editor Louis Garguilo looks into the evidence, and comes up with some interesting developments.

• The Curious Route Back To The In-Person Conference

  7/23/2026

  We've acquired one of the industry's fastest-growing outsourcing conference franchises. We’re back in the live events business; that's great news. This new partnership also sets us to wondering: As an outsourcing industry, where in fact are we regarding in-person and virtual events? I asked my new colleagues, the co-founders of PharmaSource and CDMO Live conferences, Luke Bilton and Chris Kilbee.