Outsourcing

While a one-stop shop still has its advantages, sponsor companies and CDMOs are starting to see each other not as transactional relationships, but true partners with a common goal of getting drugs to patients faster.

In this exclusive Drug Digest video, Deepak Bahl from Roquette and Jagruti Patel from Lonza look at strategies for accelerating early-stage development while reducing risk, approaches to speeding up timelines for complex formats without sacrificing quality, and maintaining a flexible CMC process that ensures quality.

The expansion of the Kentucky site accounts for $80 million of the announced investment, with the remaining money earmarked for facilities in Michigan.

In contrast to earlier conferences in 2025, experts interviewed as part of the BIO conference in Boston did not come to a consensus about lasting impacts of recent changes in US government policy.

The partnership was formed in September 2024 in response to increasing demand for aseptic filling technologies and processes.

The new building expands on the company’s supply chain solutions for biologics and temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals.

Prokaryotics will gain worldwide rights to develop, manufacture, and commercialize NAB741, a non-bioactive polymyxin designed to increase permeability of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria.

Cambridge Healthcare Innovations says its dry powder inhaler engine, Quattrii, can deliver large volumes of biologic and mRNA molecules in a single inhalation.

The department’s newly announced partnerships were part of a weeklong visit that included discussions held at BIO 2025.

The contest, which aims to accelerate the development of recombinant protein-based oncology therapies, will culminate at CPHI Frankfurt in October 2025.

The collaboration will focus on identifying pre-clinical candidates for high-priority targets, including a small molecule oral therapy for immunological diseases.

The agreement has been designed to offer a turnkey service to companies seeking faster time to market.

Trends in certain forms of drug delivery, as well as the emergence of artificial intelligence, are playing roles in evolving the nature of partnerships, but there are new types of partnerships gaining steam as well.

Pharmaceutical Technology® spoke with Martin Meeson, CEO of Axplora, about the role contract development and manufacturing organizations have in ensuring the quality of APIs and the security of the supply chain.

Global scale-up requires developing replicable processes that work the same no matter where they are performed. This can be accomplished with smart factories that utilize fully automated manufacturing platforms.

Christy Eatmon of Thermo Fisher Scientific reviewed her company’s experience at CPHI Americas 2025 and discussed recent industry trends that are driving strategic partnerships.

Merck will have early-stage opportunities to help startups set up for future success in the pharmaceutical and life sciences fields.

The proposed $700 million, 700,000-square-foot space will support the companies’ future joint portfolio of next-generation obesity medicines.

The company said the investment is in response not only to customer demand and a belief in the value of US-based innovation, but also because of the trend toward US onshoring brought about by new tariff policies.

The company said the expansion is in response to globally rising demand for inhaled biologics, which offer distinct advantages in route of administration, but can be challenging products for developers.

BioPharm International® spoke with Lun Xin, associate director at WuXi Biologics, about high-concentration biologics and some of the biggest challenges associated with their formulation.

The shift toward personalized medicines poses new challenges in cleanroom protocols.

The pandemic made it daunting for companies to retain talent and then find it anew, but just as that cloud is lifting and workforce diversity is being embraced, AI beckons as a new challenge.

The project, the North African Dementia Registry, will unite multiple entities for the purpose of developing a comprehensive dataset to advance the research community’s understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in diverse populations.