Tagged with CMO

Taiwan Shing-Mou Lee, founder and president of EMO Biomedicine, the leading CDMO provider of cell-based products in Taiwan, discusses the major regulatory and maturation trends in the region and shares his future strategy for expanding the company’s position in the sector.   One of EMO’s missions is to help the government…

Puerto Rico Victor Cruz, VP-Manufacturing Puerto Rico and Brazil for Lilly del Caribe highlights the priorities in his new position and underlines the importance of the Carolina facility for the global insulin supply. He also discusses Puerto Rico’s role related to future trends in pharmaceutical manufacturing, such as AI, robotics and continuous…

Taiwan Wei-Hong Tseng, founder and chairman of PharmaCore Biotech, introduces the specialized CDMO and its unique capacities to produce high value-added products. As a leading service provider in Taiwan, Tseng goes on to explain the company’s future strategy to not only continue its international expansion but also further enhance its innovative…

China Dr Shun Luo, chairman, founder and CEO of Thousand Oaks Biopharmaceuticals, shares the company’s vision to deliver more accessible and affordable biologics to patients globally by lowering the cost of goods manufactured (COGM) per gram of recombinant protein; the paradigm-shifting technology and processes Thousand Oaks Biopharmaceuticals is innovating as an…

Puerto Rico GK CMO, a Puerto Rican contract manufacturing organization (CMO) recently inaugurated its manufacturing facility on the island. With the potential to manufacture advanced biologic and biosimilar products, the event could herald the beginning of a new era for Puerto Rican pharma manufacturing and was thus attended by two of the…

France CREAPHARM is a French company managing clinical supplies and providing CMO and distribution services for pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. Its CEO, Eric Placet, explains how he has reorganized the company to create synergies between the different business lines and breaks down the massive investments the company has made over the last…

France Michel Spagnol, chairman and CEO of Novasep, a robust French CDMO, shares his insights on the key global trends that are shaping today’s CMDO sector – particularly the emerging significance of biopharmaceuticals and gene therapies. Spagnol goes on to elaborate on his strategy to revitalize Novasep’s organizational structure and position…

France Patrick Mahieux, general manager of ABL Europe, a CDMO specialized in the provision of viral vectors, discusses the company’s history within the Institut Mérieux and, the unique and flexible strategy Mahieux leverages to position the CMO as a top player in the market.   We manage ABL Europe as a…

France Pierre Banzet, CEO of French CDMO Groupe SYNERLAB, shares how the group has developed over the past three years and discloses his strategy for generating specialty production knowledge as well as expanding the company’s footprint within Europe. Banzet also offers his assessment of key CDMO trends and the current condition…

France Eric Goupil, CEO of Unither Pharmaceuticals, discusses the company’s development strategy moving forward after the completion of a leveraged buyout in 2017. Additionally, Goupil shares the CDMO’s innovation capabilities as a leading player in the Blow-fill-seal (BFS) niche.   While the continuation of outsourcing by pharmaceutical companies is a trend,…

Spain Damaso Molero, general manager of 3P Biopharmaceuticals, a leading Spanish CDMO, highlights the growth of the company and the need to continuously increase capacity to meet market demands. Furthermore, he touches on the innovation ecosystem in Spain and how 3P works with clients, rather than for them, to achieve long-term…

Korea Kyungjin Peter Kim, CEO of ST Pharm, provides an insight into his expansion of the company’s operations from simply a CMO into a CDMO and new drug development. He also explains his decision to focus on manufacturing oligonucleotides, the potential in that market, and the challenges to the next objectives.…