014 - Why now is the most important time for selecting a CMO

What We Covered 01:19 – Ed, Brian and Meranda welcome to the show Dr. Rick Offerman who speaks to his experience as a process chemist, the drug development process and what goes into selecting a solvent 15:41 – The importance of selecting the right CMO partner 19:05 – Questions that must be asked in the beginning of the drug manufacturing process 23:14 – Dr. Rick breaks down best practices in cost-control 30:16 – The importance of the project timeline 40:13 – Dr. Rick takes a moment to recognize those who greatly influenced his career 46:23 – Ed, Brian and Meranda thank Dr. Rick for joining the show Tweetable Quotes “A lot of CMOs are now going to a ‘one-stop shop’ type model. So basically they’ll say, ‘Yeah we’ll take you all the way from gram quantities right through commercial. We can do your API and your drug substance.’ But there’s still a lot of smaller shops out there that can do small scale pre-clinical work.” “Cost is always a factor [in selecting a solvent] but it’s not the major one.” “You’re gotta have an integrated approach all the way through the system to understand the API that you’re producing, the impurity profile, the crystal morphology, the polymorphs, that sort of thing.” “Realistically, when you look at the cost of an API as a percentage of a drug product, it’s usually fairly low.” “If the analytical people aren’t up and ready to go, then when the chemists start running stuff in the hoods, how do they analyze it? We don’t have methods, so we’re kinda going on a wing and a prayer.” Relevant Links Design Space InPharmatics - LinkedIn Design Space InPharmatics - Twitter Edward Narke on LinkedIn Rick Offerman on LinkedIn

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014 - Why now is the most important time for selecting a CMO is an episode from CMC Live - Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls by DSI.

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This episode was published on Oct 30, 2020.

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