Newsletter | October 27, 2025

10.27.25 -- The Key To Outsourcing Is Timing, Not Timelines

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Catalent offers an extensive suite of analytical services designed to support both traditional biologics and emerging modalities, including ADCs, cell and gene therapies, mRNA, vaccines, and more. Join Vincy Abraham, Director of Biologics Analytical Services, to explore how Catalent’s deep expertise and advanced capabilities enable customized analytical solutions that address the unique needs of your biotherapeutics, ensuring quality, precision, and regulatory compliance at every stage. Learn more.

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

What's Driving The Future Of Biopharma And Outsourcing Strategies?

Review the rapidly evolving world of complex drug development and the critical factors that drive success for products made using different molecules beyond the traditional antibodies.

Utilizing Small-Scale Downstream Studies Across Biologics Manufacturing

The following studies offer a flexible, cost-effective way to interrogate process behaviors, optimize unit operations, and identify potential risks long before they impact full-scale production.

Why Cell Line Screening Is Crucial For Successful CDC Assay Development

In developing a CDC assay for mAb characterization or QC release testing, in addition to selecting a target cell line, consideration should be given to the expression of CRPs on the cell surface.

FEATURED EDITORIAL

The Key To Outsourcing Is Timing, Not Timelines

The Rolling Stones sang, “Time is on my side.” Nary a biotech would ever agree. Brent Powell, a process chemist at biotech Insmed, and who started his career at a CDMO, knows a few reasons for this, and how to make the strategic change in your thinking from timelines to timing.

What If We Had Just One Developability Parameter?

Research suggests years-long stability studies that gobble up material can be reduced to a single day using milligram quantities.

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS CONTINUED

New And Improved Analytical Methods For Traditional And Unique Modalities

Here, we review several challenges in biologics analysis and take a closer look at the advanced tools and methods being utilized to improve biophysical analysis reliability and efficiency.

Developing New Medicines Through Artificial Intelligence

Embrace the future of drug development by leveraging AI and innovative protein synthesis technologies to accelerate the creation of effective therapies and transform patient outcomes.

The Benefits Of End-To-End Formulation And Fill/Finish Of Biologics

Proper formulation development has a huge impact on whether a technology transfer to the clinical phase fill/finish is successful. Consider the challenges of transitioning a promising drug candidate.

Accelerating Sterile Injectable Innovation Through Strategic Outsourcing

With the sector’s growth expected to continue — and sterile injectables increasingly pivotal in patient care — it is forecasted that the strategic value of outsourcing will only rise.

Inclusion Bodies: Mother Nature's Help Or Hindrance?

Uncover strategies to improve the performance of IB processes, as well as the pros and cons of soluble and insoluble processes: isolating, solubilizing, and properly refolding.

Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance

Learn how three companies collaborated to develop a new antibiotic to address the increasing development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) that threatens the global health landscape.

Future-Proofing A Volatile Supply Chain Through Modular Biomanufacturing

Biopharmaceutical supply chain volatility is at an all-time high. To navigate this complexity, CDMOs must prioritize robust sourcing strategies and proactive vendor management.

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Live Event: Small Molecule Outsourcing: Getting Timelines, Tech Transfer and Analytics Right

This digital event features industry experts who will share best practices for streamlining processes between sponsors and CDMOs. Register today for free and you can walk away with actionable insights into aligning analytical methods and quality standards to accelerate small molecule production and reduce risk across the development lifecycle.

SOLUTIONS

Understand Your Stability Programs

A stability program evaluates how pharmaceutical and biologic products maintain potency, purity, and quality over time, which ensures safety, effectiveness, and regulatory compliance.

Capabilities Update April 2025: Fill/Finish

Advance your clinical and commercial programs with expert aseptic fill finish and formulation services across vials, cartridges, and syringes, all in state-of-the-art, EU Annex 1-compliant facilities.

Small, Simple-To-Use Package For Delivering High-Viscosity Formulations

ArQ® - Bios offers a small, simple-to-use package to deliver high viscosity formulations in greater volumes than 1 ml, subject to matching the formulation characteristics with acceptable patient tolerability.

Capabilities Update January 2025: Fill/Finish

Discover how Lonza Biologics’ end-to-end Drug Product capabilities support the full lifecycle of biologics, seamlessly integrated with their extensive drug substance network across diverse modalities.

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OUTSOURCED PHARMA CAPACITY UPDATE

Find Your New CDMO At Outsourced Pharma Capacity Update

CDMOs in biologics, cell and gene, and small molecule share their capabilities and available capacities. 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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