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Get Your Copy Of The 2025 Agenda

Join us in Berlin 26-27 March 2025 for Pharma Contract Manufacturing, Europe’s only forum focused on perfecting the Pharma-CMO partnership!

Download your copy of the agenda here.

Pocket Guide to Relationship Management

Pocket Guide to Relationship Management

We spoke exclusively with Luiz Barberini, Sr. Operations Manager - External Manufacturing Latin America, Bayer about how he manages relationships with contract manufacturers.

From this discussion we have put together this handy pocket guide which covers topics including conflict management, mitigating risks and building resourceful and lasting relationships with contractors.

Optimising and Consolidating Your CMO Network: Insights From UCB

Optimising and Consolidating Your CMO Network: Insights From UCB

When building a resourceful and reliable relationship with a CMO it is critical that both companies understand each other’s culture, mission and values. Pharma IQ caught up with Christophe Stevens, Associate Director External Manufacturing, UCB and Christophe Defrance, External Manufacturing Director, UCB to discuss the optimisation and consolidation of their extensive CMO network.

How has Pharma Contract Manufacturing  changed over the years?

How has Pharma Contract Manufacturing changed over the years?

Nowadays, nearly 80% of drugs currently FDA approved on behalf of small bio/pharma companies are contract manufactured, and 50% of products supported by mid-size companies use a CMO. In the lead up to the Pharma Contract Manufacturing Conference, Pharma IQ have looked at the evolution of the roles of CMOs and CDMOs in the industry, and what the future will bring for these organisations.