Thermo Fisher Scientific is at the forefront of providing comprehensive pharmaceutical services from drug development, clinical trial logistics to commercial manufacturing.
With a global presence spanning over 60 locations, the company offers a seamless, ‘end-to-end’ solution across all developmental phases, including API production, biologics, viral vectors, cGMP plasmids, formulation, clinical trial support, logistics, manufacturing and packaging.
Ahead of CPHI Barcelona 2023 we spoke to Christy Eatmon, Global SME, Sterile Drug Products at Thermo Fisher Scientific, who explains how they support pharma and biotech customers of all sizes.
“Being part of such a big company allows us to rely on a global network of people that have breadth and depth of experience. Customers benefit from reducing risk, improving timelines and are often able to leverage our buying power.”
“We work with all the big pharma companies, as you would expect, but the majority of our customers are actually small and emerging. ” says Christy.
“I know a lot of people feel like they might get lost in such a big organisation, but our services are personalised to the needs of a specific client or programme. Supporting small biotechs has always been the heart of our business. Our goal is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.”
Key trend: Home delivery of pre-filled syringes
Christy says that one of the most important changes to the healthcare landscape will be increased home delivery to patients. Thermo Fisher Scientific are currently expanding their capabilities for auto injector assembly in order to anticipate the demand for what will be a “huge” market.
“Pre-filled syringes, filled with whatever drug or medicines a person might need, have the potential to be ground-breaking.” says Christy. “Rather than patients having to go into clinics for intravenous infusion, they will now be able to inject themselves at home. “
“I don’t see that as much different from what diabetics have been doing for years, having a vial of insulin in their fridge and then dosing themselves. With prefilled syringes and auto injectors patients don’t even have to measure how much to give themselves.”
To get ready for this will require the biologics to be more concentrated in order to reduce the injection volume, Christy adds.
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