Louis Garguilo

ARTICLES BY LOUIS

  • 12/17/2024

    Chief Editor Louis Garguilo writes that 2024 sent us a harsh reminder: None of us are paragons of outsourcing sagacity. We need to keep learning, and updating. And staying aware that the outside world – history in the making– interferes. Here's a review of a historic year that will get you thinking: How did I create outsourcing history in 2024?

  • 12/12/2024

    Bob Discordia had been in stealth mode for a while. When he finally emerged, Chief Editor Louis Garguilo knew his newco would include a precise model of outsourcing. The reveal came earlier this year with the announcement he had founded EQUULUS Therapeutics, a neuroscience biotech. So how will Discordia outsource? He'll take an Uber ... and advises you do the same.

  • 12/9/2024

    Jin-an Jiao, VP, Process and Analytical Development, Synthekine, has worked with CDMOs around the world. "When you talk with them about starting a new project," he says, "everybody's perfect. Everybody's great.” Unfortunately, that can change quickly, and thus the need to confirm "a real commitment to timelines." Part 3 and our final discussion with Jiao ...

  • 12/5/2024

    Persephoni BioPartners CEO Hilary Shultz, and newly hired Chief Scientific Officer William Heath – a 34-year veteran of Eli Lilly – explain their biotech-forming business model, dubbed a venture studio, and provide sound advice on working with CDMOs.

  • 12/2/2024

    Persephoni BioPartners CEO Hilary Schultz has created a business model that may propel “externalization” to an ultimate implementation: The formation of a biotech by outsourcing the entire organization, which then outsources to advance an asset. Schultz describes Persephoni as a venture studio. Chief Editor Louis Garguilo investigates further ...

  • 11/25/2024

    Artificial intelligence (AI) has made its way to the midsection of our new-drug life cycle. AI now directly enables route-scouting and data scientists. The enabling is happening at drug sponsors and at your CDMOs. What does this look like in practice? Will there be fewer process chemists in the future, and who will they be?

  • 11/18/2024

    Route scouting professionals – self-effacing hunters of small-molecule simplicity, searching for efficient pathways to commercial success, fearless in pointing out risks, and at times, dead ends. Today they face mounting challenges. Can artificial intelligence (AI) bring more clairvoyance to these battered scientists? “Absolutely,” says Dr. Jürgen Swienty-Busch of Elsevier.

  • 11/11/2024

    A report from WittKieffer's Global Life Sciences provides a macro analysis of the executives that helm today’s CDMOs. Competent executive leadership should be a main driver of business-to-business confidence. So as a component of your CDMO due diligence, are you adequately assessing the senior executives at that organization? If so, do they inspire confidence that theirs is a well-governed and operated entity?

  • 11/7/2024

    Hard to believe it was back in early February we got the news: Novo Holdings Acquires Catalent. As with any “shake up,” the dust settles and emerging "realities" must be addressed. That’s what has transpired via an "open letter“ from Catalent's executive officer. “I want to correct a few key inaccuracies,” he begins. Analysis from Chief Editor Louis Garguilo.

  • 11/5/2024

    Jin-an Jiao of Synthekine, a developer of CAR T therapies and biologics, says despite the specifics of his pipeline, plenty of CDMOs are interested in working with him. “However,” he says, “what’s most interesting is there's a huge difference in price estimates for the same work.” Here's his advice on how to handle that.

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Louis Garguilo



Louis Garguilo is chief editor of Outsourced Pharma, and is considered a leading authority on the art and science of drug development and manufacturing outsourcing. He studied public relations and journalism at Syracuse University (and holds a Master’s in English). His widely read editorials are based on in-depth analysis and interviews with industry executives and professionals. Editorials are written in an engaging and unique style that guide readers through the macro aspects and subtle nuances of outsourcing, and working with contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs). Garguilo also serves as moderator for the various Outsourced Pharma Live webinars held throughout the year.

Prior to joining Outsourced Pharma in 2014, Garguilo spent a decade at a global pharmaceutical contract research, development and manufacturing organization, leaving the industry after attaining the role of vice president, business development and marketing. Additionally, he has served under the governor of New York in the state’s economic development agency, as liaison to the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry; as chief strategic officer for an e-learning software company; and spent most of the ‘80s and ‘90s in Japan as an educator, author, and communications consultant.