Newsletter | July 17, 2026

07.17.26 -- South Korea's Turn: CDMO Powerhouse Adds Biotech Innovation

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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

Choosing The Right Pharma CMO: The 3 Cs That Matter Most

Choosing a CMO is a strategic decision that shapes long‑term quality and scalability. Discover how a focused framework helps teams identify partners that can adapt and support growing portfolios.

Precision By Design: Drug Innovation Through Structure-Based Drug Design

Leverage structure-based drug design to gain deeper molecular insights, prioritize high-potential candidates, and accelerate your path from discovery to clinic.

The Essentials Behind Producing The Highest Quality Tablets

Dust cups and bellows are essential components in tablet manufacturing, utilized to prevent lubricants from contaminating the tablets.

FEATURED EDITORIAL

South Korea's Turn: CDMO Powerhouse Adds Biotech Innovation

Where CDMOs first flourish, and clinical trials pick up, biotech innovation follows. It has been the China model, and now the addition of biotechs and biotech investment from within and without has South Korea as the new attention-grabbing nation participating throughout our industry. Here's an in-depth analysis from Chief Editor Louis Garguilo.

Analyzing And Managing CDMO Project Risks Using Causal Mechanism & Effect Analysis

Since every sponsor–CDMO relationship can have widely different scopes, requirements, and procedures, this article focuses on the basic principles for analyzing and managing the risks of not achieving the relationship’s objectives.

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS CONTINUED

Secondary Packaging: Labeling, Cartoning, Clamshell, And Stretch Carding

Tight timelines and coordinated packaging execution drove a high-stakes product launch ahead of a national competitor, ultimately capturing over half the market and setting a new benchmark.

Innovations In API Manufacturing Of Small Molecule Drugs

Read how advances in people, processes, technology, materials, analytics, and sustainability are reshaping small‑molecule API manufacturing to reduce costs, scale efficiently, and meet future demand.

Patented Process For Intermediates Useful For Etrasimod Arginine

Explore how rethinking the synthetic strategy for Etrasimod can overcome the limitations of legacy routes, enabling more efficient chirality control and more practical industrial API production.

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