Newsletter | March 20, 2026

03.20.26 -- A Woman Relegated To The Manufacturing Night Shift

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Join us for two Outsourced Pharma Capabilities Update sessions featuring leading CDMOs sharing their facilities, timelines, and available capacity for development and manufacturing. The April 21st session focuses on small molecule drug product capabilities, while April 22nd highlights fill-finish technologies including sterile filling, lyophilization, and advanced packaging. Expect short digital presentations to help biopharma companies identify partners that can meet their manufacturing needs. Click to learn more.

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

Expanding Opportunities For Inhaled Drug Delivery

Review the challenges and intricacies of effectively delivering drugs to the lung and the advantages of using nanoparticles and gentle particle processing techniques to enable delivery of sensitive drugs.

Ensuring The Efficacy Of Probiotic Products

Without proper handling and packaging, the efficacy of probiotics can be compromised at any point in the packaging, storage, and transportation process, impacting shelf life and effectiveness.

Accelerated Development Of Solid Oral Dosage Formulation

See highlights of how the roller compaction process not only enhances efficiency but also improves the scalability of solid oral dosage production, supporting rapid development for regulatory approval.

FEATURED EDITORIAL

A Woman Relegated To The Manufacturing Night Shift

After graduating with a biology degree from Howard University and entering the pharma industry, Stephanie Wimberly found herself the only woman — the only black woman — in a manufacturing facility in Maryland. A supervisor made it clear he didn’t want her on his team; she was reassigned to the night shift at her facility. “I had a family to support, and night shift, or abuse, was not what I signed up for,” she says. “But I didn’t have many options.” Here is how she persevered, and prospered.

Where Contamination Control Really Breaks Down In Practice

Contamination control gaps arise when two dynamics merge — when processes become familiar and workloads increase. Here's how to spot them before they spin out of control.

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS CONTINUED

Transforming Environmental Monitoring And Sample Management

Discover how applying an OpEx framework to environmental monitoring and sample management can optimize workflows, improve resource utilization, and deliver measurable annual cost savings.

5 Advancements In Tablet Compression That Pharma Can't Ignore In 2026

New materials, smart automation, and in-press quality control are optimizing tablet compression. These five key innovations are driving efficiency and consistency in solid dose manufacturing today.

Patient-Centric Formulations In Pediatric Adherence

Improving pediatric adherence requires age-appropriate formulations, taste-masking, and swallowability strategies. Regulatory, clinical, and technological insights help overcome barriers and support therapies.

Challenges In ADC Production — Consolidating Operations Under One Roof

Our platform consolidates ADC development and manufacturing under one roof, streamlining processes, enhancing safety, and accelerating delivery of high-quality, clinically-ready ADCs.

Dry Powder Inhalable Vaccines For Shelf Stability And Global Access

What if a formulation that removed the need for cold chain distribution was possible? Explore the formulation of vaccines and manufacturing considerations for dry powder inhaled vaccines.

SOLUTIONS

Accelerate NCE Discovery With India-Based Medicinal Chemistry Expertise

This network currently spans across 9 manufacturing sites in 5 countries and can support discovery, preclinical, clinical and commercial programs for New Chemical Entities (NCEs).

Formulation Development Services

Quickly address critical formulation issues and optimizing performance. View services for small molecules and synthetic peptides across oral, topical, rectal, and parenteral routes.

Speed, Precision, Impact: The CRO Revolutionizing Bioanalysis

Move drug development into the modern era with a CRO that offers assay development and validation, bioanalytical testing, sample prep, and more.

OUTSOURCED PHARMA CAPABILITIES UPDATE

Find Your New CDMO At Outsourced Pharma Capabilities Update

CDMOs in biologics, cell and gene, and small molecule share their capabilities and available capabilities. See for yourself why this virtual event has become a wildly popular resource to identify options for your development and manufacturing needs.

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