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“If our suppliers fail, we’ll fail, and if they succeed, we’ll succeed.” That’s how José Francisco Vallejo Cabrera of Sanofi describes big pharma’s relationship with its suppliers on sustainability, and it was a message repeated in every…
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“You have to have something to work on together. You have to have something that you both are invested in. In this case, moving the molecule forward,” says Martin Meeson, CEO of Axplora. That shared ambition is at the heart of Martin’s…
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October 15, 2026 · 17 min

“To us, it’s exactly the opposite of a marketing slogan. If we make a decision that has a negative impact on a patient, we’ve made a bad decision,” says Stuart Needleman. Stuart Needleman is Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Patient…
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October 12, 2026 · 38 min

“If the data you give it is weak, the model becomes a liability rather than an asset. In regulated industries, that’s not just a technical failure; it’s potentially a compliance and an ethical failure as well,” says Amie Harpe. Amie Harpe…
Three Packaging Bottlenecks Slowing GLP-1 Scale-Up

October 8, 2026 · 21 min

At CDMO Live Europe 2026, Alexander Schäfer, Business Development Manager at Sharp, laid out the scale of the GLP-1 packaging challenge and identified the three collaboration failures most likely to prevent CDMOs and their pharma partners…

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Container Closure Integrity: 6 Considerations for Evaluating CDMO Capabilities

October 5, 2026 · 28 min

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…
How to Select and Sustain an Early-Stage CDMO Partnership

October 1, 2026 · 36 min

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…
What Changes When Pharma Outsources Outcomes, Not Just People?

September 28, 2026 · 37 min

“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 Flanagan Aisling…
Europe Needs to Pick a Side: Why Geopolitics Is Forcing a Rethink of Pharma Supply Network Design

September 24, 2026 · 37 min

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…
AI in Biopharma Manufacturing: Why Build-or-Buy Is the Wrong First Question

September 21, 2026 · 30 min

“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…
What CDMOs Get Wrong About AI for Bioprocessing, According to Sapiens Health’s Seungik Cho

September 17, 2026 · 37 min

“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…
How to Identify a Root Cause Without Delay: Interlabor's Troubleshooting Framework

September 14, 2026 · 23 min

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…

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About the show

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.