This guest editorial is by Kishore Hotha, PhD, MBA, President, Dr. Hotha’s Life Sciences LLC Chemistry can fail in drug development. Unexpected impurity profiles, scale-up variability, conjugation instability, containment exceedances—these are real and consequential. Anyone who has led a CMC
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“When we go to an external partner, we need to show up as one single aligned organization. If we’re not aligned internally, the CMO ends up becoming the referee.” In pharmaceutical manufacturing, the quality of a CDMO partnership is rarely
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