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PharmaSource Podcast

Life Science Networks

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

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00:16:05

Kindeva CEO Explains UK Expansion Strategy for...

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2025/09/26

"Outsourcing is about giving the things you don't excel at to someone who does them exceptionally well. That's what speeds development and delivery," says Kindeva’s CEO, Milton Boyer.Milton brings nearly 30 years of pharmaceutical manufacturing experience as a contract manufacturer. He spent the first half of his career in drug substances and APIs, and the latter half in sterile drug product manufacturing before leading Kindeva's transformation into a multi-platform drug delivery CDMO.In this

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00:31:14

Roche's Strategic Supplier Model: Achieving Win-Win...

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2025/09/22

“A strategic partnerships is not a transactional relationship – it’s a partnership that should last. If we incentivise through co-investments and risk sharing, the partner can grow their business while enabling us to achieve cost and volume targets.” – Shilpi GhoshShilpi Ghosh, who leads Roche’s global CDMO operations, brings extensive expertise from chemical engineering and supply chain leadership across multiple continents. She oversees commercial aspects of Roche’s external manufacturing

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00:26:50

[Exclusive] Society of Professional Pharmaceutical...

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2025/09/18

“Pharma consulting right now is an overgrown patch of weeds. Everybody’s just doing their own thing. It’s the Wild West compared to what it could be – an English garden.” – Ray SisonRay Sison, founder of SCxCMC exclusively speaks to the PharmaSource podcast about the launch of the Society of Professional Pharmaceutical Consultants (SOPPhC)In the latest PharmaSource podcast episode, Ray explains why he believes the pharmaceutical consulting industry desperately needs professional standards, ethical

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00:08:26

CDMO Live Europe 2026: Building Europe's Premier...

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2025/09/15

In this episode Luke Bilton, Co-Founder of PharmaSource, shares a special announcement about CDMO Live Europe 2026 (May 19-21, Rotterdam World Trade Center). Following a sold-out inaugural event that facilitated over 1,200 targeted meetings, this pharmaceutical outsourcing event is doubling in size in 2026.Key topics covered:Why the £200+ billion CDMO sector needed a dedicated European platformNew learning tracks for External Manufacturing Strategy and Drug Development & CMCHands-on training

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00:29:34

How Takeda Drives Quality Excellence Across External...

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2025/09/11

“The idea is to get the information in real time. And for that, you would go and see what systems you have at hand, what system your CMO is using, and find a joint, so called ‘Safe Space’, which serves both sides.” – Ingrid LuxIngrid Lux serves as Lead Quality Disposition in Oncology & Small Molecule External Supply Europe at Takeda, bringing extensive experience from her previous 16 years at Sandoz. Her expertise spans pharmaceutical quality management, with a particular focus on

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00:22:23

Three Ways to Transform Pharmaceutical Supply Chains...

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2025/09/04

"Sustainability isn't just about doing the right thing. It's about making smarter, more cost effective decisions that are really building stronger, more reliable supply chains."Christiane Walker, Product Development Team Lead at Intelsius, believes the pharmaceutical industry stands at a critical juncture where environmental responsibility and operational excellence must converge.Christiane Walker leads the product development team at Intelsius, managing cross-functional teams that

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00:29:48

CMC Development: How Early Manufacturing Decisions...

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2025/09/01

Link to the CDMO News Analysis download:CDMO News Analysis Tracker“CMC topics are often taken a bit late in development. The biggest pitfall is not only it’s going to cost you more, but it’s going to cause delays to your programme. The more you push it, the bigger are the costs and potentially the delays.”Marine Joly-Battaglini, CMC consultant and founder of PharmDev, specialises in CMC regulatory strategy for pharmaceutical companies at all stages of development. With a decade of experience in CMC

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00:17:51

Teva's Drug Development Pivot: Dr. Eric A. Hughes...

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2025/08/26

“The greatest opportunity at Teva is our innovative pipeline. We’re really leaning in on our innovative pipeline as an integral part of our pivot to growth strategy.”This is the ambitious vision of Dr Eric Hughes, Executive Vice President of Global R&D and Chief Medical Officer at Teva Pharmaceuticals.He speaks about the company’s strategic transformation from generics powerhouse to innovative biopharmaceutical leader - including how strategic partnerships and a matrix organisational approach

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00:38:03

How Grünenthal Builds Strategic External Supply...

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2025/08/18

“We need to strive to be an easy client. Being an easy client with clear goals and internal alignment is key for successful long-term relationships with CMOs. Equally important is how we manage internally – how we align internally and bring that one message to the CMOs.”Felipe Furiati, Senior Director External Supply Operations at Grünenthal, manages external supply operations across a €2 billion portfolio whilst leading crisis management and M&A integration activities.Felipe brings a

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00:20:16

BioRN Reports Surge in US Applications as Scientists...

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2025/08/11

"We are seeing a doubling or tripling of applications from the United States. You can really feel that shift already. People have been offered jobs and professorships and are already here in Heidelberg."Dr. Julia Schaft, Managing Director at BioRN Cluster Management GmbH, reveals the significant increase in American scientists exploring opportunities in Germany's Rhine-Neckar biotech hub as researchers seek new environments that support their work.Julia brings over a decade of

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00:21:23

RFK Jr. Cancels $500M in mRNA Vaccine Development: US...

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2025/08/06

HHS Secretary’s unprecedented move to terminate 22 federal mRNA contracts sends shockwaves through biotech sector and raises critical questions about U.S. pandemic preparednessThe pharmaceutical industry woke up to a fundamentally altered landscape this week as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the termination of $500 million in federal funding for mRNA vaccine development. The decision, which affects 22 active projects across major pharmaceutical companies

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00:27:33

From Lab to Patient: How Tetraneuron's Gene Therapy...

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2025/07/31

"When you are seeing great results in your research lab, you think that everything has been done. But then when you try to humanise your drug, a new adventure starts, because the CMC process is very difficult. In my opinion, it's as difficult as demonstrating efficacy." - Mari Carmen ÁlvarezMari Carmen Álvarez PhD. is the Managing Director of Tetraneuron, a pioneering Spanish biotech developing novel gene therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. With nearly two decades in biotech leadership, she

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00:24:36

How Astellas Reset Research Procurement from 200 to...

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2025/07/26

“From Tokyo to Boston, we knew people had to see and feel the future we were building together. That is how you create lasting change.”Amber Meriwether, Director of Corporate Strategy at Astellas Pharma, has orchestrated one of the industry’s most dramatic supplier rationalisations whilst navigating complex cultural dynamics across seven global locations.In the latest PharmaSource podcast episode, Amber reveals how effective supplier rationalisation transcends traditional cost-cutting approaches,

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00:25:44

From Film to Pharma: Inside FUJIFILM Biotechnologies'...

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2025/07/23

"Current revenue scale is $1.3 billion. We anticipate it will grow to $5 billion, just in five years' time. We've committed to invest about two-thirds of Fujifilm's entire annual capex in this business."Toshihisa “Toshi” Iida, Chairman of FUJIFILM Biotechnologies Group and Board Director at FUJIFILM Corporation, reveals how 89 years of healthcare heritage drives the company's ambitious CDMO expansion strategy.Toshihisa brings 34 years of experience at Fujifilm, having witnessed the company's

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00:38:36

Follow the Money How Private Equity Capital Flows are...

PharmaSource Podcast ·

2025/07/20

A panel of M&A advisors and consultants at CDMO Live 2025 explored how private equity investment has transformed the contract manufacturing sector, whilst examining current challenges from geopolitical uncertainty to market volatility. The session, sponsored by TH Healthcare & Life Sciences, featured Kurt Nielsen (Managing Partner, Longview Leader LLC), Dirk Beyer (Managing Director, Raymond James), Asif Shahinsha (Executive Director, TH Healthcare & Life Sciences), and Vishnu Dwadasi

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00:38:43

Biologics at Scale: Navigating Development &...

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2025/07/13

The biologics external manufacturing panel at CDMO Live 2025, sponsored by BSP Pharmaceuticals, brought together industry leaders to tackle the key challenges in scaling biological manufacturing amid geopolitical tensions, capacity constraints and evolving partnership models.The panel featured Olaf Birkenmeier, Head of External Manufacturing at Polpharma Biologics; Julien Laizé, Director of External Manufacturing CTM at Valneva; Catherine Seigneur, Senior Director of External Manufacturing Business

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00:19:30

Gene Therapy at a Crossroads: Novartis Leader Maps...

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2025/07/13

Joshi Venugopal, SVP and Head of Region for Novartis Gene Therapies, outlined three critical inflection points that will determine whether cell and gene therapy reaches its full potential at CDMO Live 2025The cell and gene therapy industry finds itself squarely in the middle of a classic Gartner hype cycle, according to Novartis gene therapy chief Joshi Venugopal. Speaking at CDMO Live 2025, Venugopal drew on Novartis's experience with the first two FDA-approved gene therapies to map where the

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00:30:02

European Small Molecule Manufacturing at Critical...

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2025/07/06

At CDMO Live 2025, industry leaders Elisabeth Stampa (Medicines for Europe), Elena Barboni (Flamma) and Agneta Larhed (RegSmart Life Science) discussed how Europe's stringent new regulations could reshape the continent's pharmaceutical manufacturing landscape.Europe's pharmaceutical manufacturing sector faces an unprecedented challenge as new environmental regulations threaten to drive production offshore, whilst the Critical Medicines Act attempts to bring it back home. Industry leaders

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00:40:37

How To Build Biotechs from First Principles: Deep...

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2025/06/25

“When you’re building something at the edge of science, it’s crucial to start with the problem, not the solution. My team has created 15 pharma startups using this approach, and 14 are still alive.” – Kerstin Papenfuss, Director of Pharma at Deep Science VenturesKerstin Papenfuss serves as the Director of Pharma at Deep Science Ventures, where she leads the creation and development of novel therapeutics for unmet medical needs. With a PhD in Tumour Immunology from Imperial College London and an MBA

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00:22:30

10 Things I’d Do Differently When Fast Tracking...

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2025/06/22

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated how pharmaceutical manufacturing timelines can be dramatically compressed while maintaining quality. At CDMO Live 2025, Fabrice Le Garrec shared lessons from the Lonza-Moderna vaccine scale-up, where "timeline meant lives."Here are his "10 Commandments" for fast-tracking emergency drug manufacturing.Dpwnload the full CDMO Live 2025 Report

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