Issue Highlights
- Rakesh Kishan: Outsource to Benefit Your Core Employees
- Symyx Ventures into the CDMO Space
- Patheon, GSK, DSM, and More

Novel Concept: Outsourcing for the Good of Your Core Employees
Many manufacturers may not realize that outsourcing can be an opportunity to empower core employees, expand their work roles and relationships, and give them new career options. Companies that approach outsourcing with the good of core employees in mind will succeed. Those that don’t risk alienating their best and brightest. This video is the third in a series with outsourcing expert Rakesh Kishan, CEO of UMS Advisory, Inc.

Speeding Time to Clinic With GMP Knowhow, High-Throughput Screening
Symyx Technologies launched a Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) with the goal of helping biopharma companies move new drug candidates from discovery to clinical trials faster and more reliably. We speak with Symyx’s Eric Carlson and Matthew Pino on why the discovery-to-clinical space is becoming more important in the evolution of pharma outsourcing.

A CMO’s Work is Never Done, Even in Academia
Nebraska-Lincoln’s Mike Meagher shares secrets of navigating a market in which the future is always uncertain, and every client demands immediate attention.

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Webcast: Pharmaceutical Outsourcing: Operational Excellence for Building Better Partnerships
This webcast examines the fundamental principles of QbD within
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service suppliers.