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Welcome to the PharmaSource podcast: the pharma and biotech podcast that explores the latest trends, challenges, and commercial opportunities shaping the biopharma manufacturing and outsourcing.In each episode we'll be speaking with top executives, researchers, and outsourcing experts, who share their perspectives on topics such as building a smarter, more sustainable supply chain, how to partner with CDMOs, digital transformation, procurement and external manufacturing strategies, and plenty more besides.Make sure to subscribe for your regular dose of pharma insight.
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- Yesterday28 min
Container Closure Integrity: 6 Considerations for Evaluating CDMO Capabilities
Container closure integrity (CCI) is a critical element of sterile product quality, but evaluating a CDMO’s CCI capabilities requires more than confirming that testing is available.The appropriate approach depends on the drug product, container closure system, manufacturing process, lifecycle risks, and applicable regulatory requirements. For pharmaceutical companies selecting or qualifying a CDMO, understanding how a manufacturing partner approaches these variables can provide useful insight into the maturity of its overall quality program.Oliver Stauffer, CEO of PTI (Packaging Technologies and Inspection), has more than two decades of experience in container closure integrity testing and quality risk assessment. In a recent PharmaSource podcast, he discussed several considerations for assessing CCI strategies across vials, prefilled syringes, autoinjectors, and other sterile product formats.The discussion points to six areas sponsors should consider when evaluating a CDMO’s approach to container closure integrity.Read the full article.
- 5 days ago35 min
How to Select and Sustain an Early-Stage CDMO Partnership
At CDMO Live Europe 2026, Giulio Cavalli, Principal Lead External Manufacturing, J&J Innovative Medicine; Neil Stevenson, Director, CMC Logic Consultancy; Marine Joly Battaglini, Founder, PharmDev; and Susan Reasoner, Chief Commercial Officer, BioDuro, examined how early-stage biotechs can avoid common selection mistakes, manage capacity concerns, and build CDMO relationships designed to last beyond Phase 1.
- 1 weeks ago36 min
What Changes When Pharma Outsources Outcomes, Not Just People?
“Traditional staff augmentation says, ‘Here are the people you asked for.’ An outcome-led model says, ‘Here is the service or capability you asked for, and we are accountable and responsible for making it work.’” — Aisling FlanaganAisling Flanagan, Global SVP of Professional and Managed Services at Catalyx, leads people-based services for regulated manufacturing environments. She works alongside Mike Barrett, Catalyx’s director of sales and operations for the UK and Europe, who focuses on translating client needs into measurable delivery.In this PharmaSource podcast interview, Aisling and Mike explain how pharmaceutical manufacturers can improve staffing outsourcing in pharma manufacturing by buying capability, capacity, and results instead of contractor headcount. Their recommendations cover supplier consolidation, GMP expertise, workforce retention, governance, and performance-based KPIs.Read the full article.
- 1 weeks ago37 min
Europe Needs to Pick a Side: Why Geopolitics Is Forcing a Rethink of Pharma Supply Network Design
Sponsored by Blue Jet Healthcare, this panel at CDMO Live Europe 2026 brought together Bernhard Boehm, Head of External Manufacturing Animal Health, Boehringer Ingelheim; Philip Coetzee, Director CMO Management, Daiichi Sankyo Europe; Fanny Eberhardt, Director Global Procurement, UCB; and Shiven Arora, Managing Director, Blue Jet Healthcare to debate how pharma companies are making network strategy decisions as cost pressures, geopolitical risk, and the limits of tech transfer collide.Read the full article.
- 2 weeks ago29 min
AI in Biopharma Manufacturing: Why Build-or-Buy Is the Wrong First Question
“AI is marketed as such an approachable, ubiquitous thing that everybody thinks they can vibe code it. Unfortunately, a lot of companies are starting to think that way,” says Kat Kozyrytska.Kat Kozyrytska is a portfolio strategy and technology leader in life science technologies who has operated across organizations, including Sartorius and Thermo Fisher, and now advises across the life sciences ecosystem. Her work focuses on translating emerging technologies, including AI, automation, and digital capabilities, into portfolio strategy, partnerships, and business growth.Ahead of CDMO Live Americas, Kat explains why many of the assumptions shaping AI adoption in drug discovery do not translate into biopharma manufacturing. She covers the evolving questions around intellectual property and learning rights, why building AI in-house may be the wrong long-term choice for many companies, and why manufacturers need to move from experimentation toward portfolio-level prioritization if AI is to deliver sustainable business value.Read the full article
- 2 weeks ago37 min
What CDMOs Get Wrong About AI for Bioprocessing, According to Sapiens Health’s Seungik Cho
“How good is your AI model? That’s the wrong question. The right question is: what does your AI model actually help your company do?”Seungik Cho, founder of Sapiens Health, has spent the past year pulling apart the assumption in biomanufacturing that a better-predicting AI model means a better digital twin. His research argues the opposite: that optimizing AI for prediction accuracy can cause these systems to fail in CDMO environments.Seungik Cho is the founder of Sapiens Health and Director of Strategic Operations at Nucleate. He’s finishing his B.S. in Biological Physics at Rice University, where his research explores the intersection between computational biology and multimodal AI. He describes his work as building AI systems that are “trustworthy and deployable,” not just accurate on a benchmark. His recent publications include work on longitudinal CT lesion prediction (IEEE ISBI 2026) and gene network analysis (IEEE BHI 2025).In the latest PharmaSource podcast episode, Seungik explains why he believes CDMOs are pointing their AI investment in the wrong direction and lays out an alternative model built around diagnosis rather than prediction, explainability rather than confidence scores, and institutional memory rather than one-off forecasts.Read the full article.
- 3 weeks ago22 min
How to Identify a Root Cause Without Delay: Interlabor's Troubleshooting Framework
At CDMO Live Europe 2026, Dr. Olivier Aebischer, Deputy CEO at Interlabor Belp AG, demonstrated how a structured, dual-path analytical approach can identify manufacturing root causes in days, using two real contamination case studies from the lab’s operations.
- 3 weeks ago18 min
How ExoZymes Is Running a 10-CDMO RFP for CDMO Selection
“We can adjust and be flexible around equipment configuration, but we can’t be flexible around what is a clear communicator and an honest partner.”Damien Perriman is Chief Commercial Officer at ExoZymes, a Nasdaq-listed company using AI-enhanced enzymes to produce pharmaceutical and nutraceutical compounds without living cells. He spent two decades commercializing biotechnologies at multiple companies, scaling up seven different technologies, before joining ExoZymes just over a year ago.In the latest PharmaSource podcast episode, Damien explains how ExoZymes is running its first major CDMO selection process for a platform unlike anything most contract manufacturers have run before, and why the company is weighing communication and cultural fit as heavily as technical capability.Read the full article.
About PharmaSource Podcast
Welcome to the PharmaSource podcast: the pharma and biotech podcast that explores the latest trends, challenges, and commercial opportunities shaping the biopharma manufacturing and outsourcing.In each episode we'll be speaking with top executives, researchers, and outsourcing experts, who share their perspectives on topics such as building a smarter, more sustainable supply chain, how to partner with CDMOs, digital transformation, procurement and external manufacturing strategies, and plenty more besides.Make sure to subscribe for your regular dose of pharma insight.
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