ABOUT BEND BIOSCIENCE
Bend Bioscience is a highly experienced contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) dedicated to advancing pharmaceutical innovation through cutting-edge scientific expertise and flexible problem-solving.
Our facilities in Bend, OR; Clearwater, FL; and Gainesville, GA allow us to provide world-class service with the agility to adapt to our clients’ needs. We bring together decades of experience in drug development and manufacturing to deliver exceptional solutions for our partners.
We specialize in preclinical to commercial drug development, with a focus on complex formulations, analytical development, and manufacturing. Our expertise spans across:
- Solubility Enhancement & Drug Delivery Solutions – Including spray-dried dispersion (SDD) and particle engineering.
- Oral Solid Dose & Multiparticulate Formulation Development – Supporting immediate and modified-release technologies for capsules, tablets, and other dosage forms.
- Analytical Development & Quality Control – Ensuring robust methods, regulatory compliance, and in-depth characterization.
- GMP Manufacturing – Providing scalable solutions from early-stage clinical supply to late-stage and commercial production.
- Tech Transfer & Commercial Readiness – Supporting seamless scale-up, regulatory filings, and efficient transition to commercial manufacturing.
As scientists, problem solvers, and partners, we take a collaborative approach to help pharmaceutical and biotech companies overcome challenges and accelerate time to market.
Whether you are advancing an early-stage candidate, preparing for late-stage clinical trials, or seeking commercial manufacturing support, Bend Bioscience has the expertise, innovation, and dedication to make it happen.
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
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Integrating lab notebooks with inventory and asset tracking boosts accuracy and traceability. Real-time visibility cuts errors, speeds decisions, and supports compliant, scalable pharma development.
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Programs often stall moving to GMP due to fragmented workflows and knowledge gaps. Aligning teams and integrating development with execution, via continuous data, sustains momentum and reduces risk.
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Achieving regulatory compliance confidence is paramount for safety and competitive advantage. Adherence to standards and robust risk mitigation are essential to avoid delays and detrimental outcomes.
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Learn how a scientifically grounded framework for early-phase CMC development, integrating QbD and proactive risk management, helps de-risk drug development and accelerate the journey from molecule to market.
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API-in-capsule offers a fast path for early clinical data, but it can't eliminate the need for full formulation development. Weighing the potential for higher total development time and cost is critical.
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Developing therapies for rare diseases faces hurdles like high costs, small patient populations, and complex small-batch manufacturing. CDMOs offer crucial support, expertise, and flexibility.
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Integrating spray dried dispersions with CR strategies addresses poor drug solubility and the need for tailored release kinetics. Explore considerations to ensure stability and sustained supersaturation.
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Discover how early polymer selection drives formulation success, with case studies linking polymer choice to drug release and practical insights for developing robust CR products.
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Explore how strategic U.S.-based manufacturing and supply chain diversification can reduce risk, lower costs, and enhance supply reliability for pharmaceutical products.
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Discover how modifying the micro-environment with targeted excipients can significantly enhance the dissolution rate of poorly soluble drugs using conventional manufacturing methods.
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Leveraging the competence and capabilities of the CDMO to bring forth innovative, flexible solutions to safeguard supply chains for their clients and, ultimately, for patients is crucial to strategic partnering.
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Learn how to overcome tech transfer challenges and ensure consistent content uniformity by leveraging multidisciplinary expertise and decades of commercial encapsulation experience.
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Explore advanced approaches to designing robust amorphous formulations and optimizing spray drying processes tailored specifically to difficult-to-formulate compounds.
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Unlocking the potential of oral protein therapeutics requires innovative formulation and manufacturing strategies to overcome stability, absorption, and bioavailability challenges.
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Here, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of diverse PROTAC (Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras) structures, evaluating their calculated physicochemical properties to identify key trends.
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Choosing the right CDMO is crucial for the success of your pharmaceutical project. Learn how to strike the ideal balance between an organization's technical expertise, facilities, and efficiency.
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Collaborating with an experienced CDMO can provide the expertise and facilities needed to navigate oral solid dose formulation complexities and ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks.
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Leveraging robust quality systems can improve efficiency throughout the product development lifecycle and help companies avoid unnecessary knowledge and tech transfer, saving both time and cost.
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A CDMO with expertise in modified-release dosage forms can provide valuable assistance in formulation development, processing considerations, analytical challenges, and regulatory requirements.
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Discover how strategic partnerships, robust process development, and a keen awareness of supply chain vulnerabilities can pave the way to a successful clinical trial.
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Navigating NCE development can be daunting. Learn about the importance of assessing and mitigating risk at every stage of development and ensure that your NCE has the maximum potential for success.
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Learn about the importance of sharing as much information as possible with your CDMO and how asking the right set of questions will ensure that services are fairly priced and timelines are accurate.
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Explore the importance of understanding a CDMO’s flexibility and culture, models and scale of equipment, technical capabilities, regulatory support, quality system, and executive sponsorship model.
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Ensuring regulatory compliance is paramount for a CDMO to meet manufacturing standards, warrant patient safety, and maintain its reputation.
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Learn how a partner with experience in handling scheduled substances and navigating FDA and DEA regulation can help you advance toward clinical research and drug development with ease.
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Leveraging the the 505(b)(2) regulatory pathway can enable an accelerated approval timeline and help advance your drug product to market. Review the three statutes that govern the approval pathways.
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Pharma companies aiming to tech transfer or scale-up modified release formulations often encounter hurdles when the formulation is not robust. Review how to select the right polymers and ensure you have a robust formulation strategy.
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Leveraging an experienced partner with a robust supply strategy can help manage the strain of a supply chain in flux and mitigate risk during the development and manufacturing processes.
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Today’s clinical studies demand flexible clinical trial services (CTS). Knowing what to look for when evaluating a CDMO can help avoid delays and ensure your product advances to market on schedule.
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Investing in the right preformulation studies and gathering evidence to inform decisions is critical to identify product dead-ends and failure modes without the pain of hindsight.
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View the webinar to uncover common issues that impact commercial tech transfers and hear experts share key points for building a seamless partnership between the client and outsourcing partner.
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As you bring a new drug product to market, leveraging the expertise and technical capabilities of a CDMO can help reduce costs and streamline processes on the path to commercialization.
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While improving processes and eliminating waste may provide short-term gains, the true key to sustainable improvement lies in addressing the culture and employees within the organization.
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What if you could limit and position a formulation change as only a CMC prior approval supplement under the FDA’s scale-up and post-approval changes guidance?
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Wurster processing is a versatile pharmaceutical development and manufacturing technique for multiparticulates in modified release dosage forms. Understand if it's the right method for your modified-release project.
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Get a brief overview of the CMC information required by regulatory authorities and why planning and budgeting for key CMC considerations early in the development process are essential for success.
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Proactively uncovering issues and resolving human errors to avoid defects is a priority. Learn about a reliable, systematic, data-gathering approach that helps build efficiencies and future-proof processes.
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The formulation and manufacture of modified-release OSD forms are highly specialized. Review considerations for planning and executing a successful modified release oral solid dosage formulation.
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Explore some of the key features that pharmaceutical companies should look for in the facilities of prospective manufacturing partners.
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Some reformulation projects are more challenging than others. See how innovative processing equipment from Freund-Vector was leveraged to develop an efficient and effective solution.
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Do you want to develop an oral controlled release (OCR) product? Understand the options and their ramifications as the first step toward devising a plan.
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Are you serialization-ready? Failure to comply could result in penalties and the inability to sell your un-serialized products.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Bend Bioscience
14205 Myerlake Cir
Clearwater, FL 33760, FL 33760
UNITED STATES
SOLUTIONS
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Discover how Bend Bioscience is scaling High Science + High Service through expanded capacity and targeted investments.
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In this interview, Dr. Michael Grass discusses how the company is adapting to emerging trends in the CDMO landscape, driving innovation, and enhancing pharmaceutical product development.
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We provide science-first solutions for challenging molecules, specializing in particle engineering, bioavailability, and GMP manufacturing across Bend, OR; Clearwater, FL; and Gainesville, GA.
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With decades of experience in drug delivery R&D, drug development, and manufacturing services, we’ve helped develop and commercialize multiple particle engineering based drug delivery platforms and supported development and commercialization of many enhanced drug products.
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Navigating the path toward regulatory approval is a complex process. Learn how partnering with Societal™ CDMO and leveraging regulatory expertise can empower your organization to achieve its goals.
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Learn how harnessing a CDMO’s extensive knowledge and skills in dealing with controlled substances can help you advance your innovative psychedelic therapeutic safely and efficiently.
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Finding a strategic CDMO partner that will offer tailored solutions for your late phase clinical and commercial needs, mitigate risks, and bolster your supply chain is crucial for meeting project milestones on time.
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As a CDMO partner with locations on both coasts of the US, Societal™ CDMO offers capabilities spanning pre-IND development to commercial manufacturing and packaging for a wide range of therapeutic dosage forms primarily focused on small molecules.
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Download our site fact sheet to get the details on our facilities, capabilities from concept through commercialization, Category 3A/3B potency capabilities, regulatory approvals and registrations, and specializations.
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Societal specializes in modified-release formulations, including those for high potent and DEA controlled substances.