Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Excellence
Pharmaceutical companies have outsourced several critical steps in the discovery and development of new drugs and the scale-up of processes and the manufacturing of APIs. Pharma, therefore, depends and relies on numerous service and technology partners. Prior to this year's CPhI Worldwide CHEManager International asked experts from CROs, CMOs, manufacturers of APIs, excipients and catalysts, formulators and others to describe their changing role in the pharmaceutical value chain. Read their answers to our questions.
1. What roles do contract research organizations (CROs) and contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) play in the drug discovery/development value chain today, and how will their role change in the future?
2. How have the requirements by pharma companies changed over the years, and how can suppliers manage to live up to them?
3. Which new business models, like project-based or value-based outsourcing, could turn out to be the most promising guarantors for a successful cooperation with the pharmaceutical industry?
4. The establishment of shared risk/shared reward partnerships has increased significantly. Can these partnerships accelerate drug discovery and fill up the innovation pipelines?
Kurt Hoeprich
Business Manager, Custom Services, Albemarle
Elliott Berger
VP Global Marketing & Strategy, Catalent
Dr. Michael Stohlmeier
Senior Product Manager - Business Development, CU Chemie Uetikon
Dr. Markus Blocher
CEO, Dottikon
Christian Jones
Associate Director - Business Development, Dr. Reddy's
Andreas Weiler
Global Head of Strategic Marketing, SAFC
Dr. Max Braun
Senior R&D and Business Development Manager, Solvay
Dr. Wilfried Eul
Head Business Line Catalysts, Evonik
Christophe Le Ret
Director of Strategic Marketing, Precious Metals Chemistry, Umicore
Nicolas Taillardat
Global Marketing and Sales Manager, Organic Intermediates and Solkane Pharma, Solvay
Dr. Andrea Missio
Business Development Director, WeylChem
John Nicols
President and CEO, Codexis
Dr. Jean-Luc Herbeaux
Head Business Line Health Care, Evonik
Jan Bebber
Global Platform Marketing Manager, Pharma Ingredients, BASF
Dr. Lukas Utiger
President and CEO, DSM Pharmaceutical Products
Jörg Schneider
Head of Marketing, Saltigo
Dr. Rudolf Hanko
CEO, Siegfried
Dr. Gabriel Haering
CEO, Cerbios
Ian Muir
Managing Director, Finished Dose, Aesica
