Challenges When Outsourcing Viral Safety Services

Nowadays, many biopharmaceutical operations are outsourced, from R&D to regulatory-driven testing services. These outsourcing activities require a network of partners working hand-in-hand, as a global ecosystem, to bring new and critical medicines to patients in need. Biopharmaceutical companies are increasingly outsourcing to contract research organizations (CROs) and contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) to not only keep pace with market demands, but also enable rapid expansion of development and manufacturing capabilities, source partners for innovative early stage R&D programs, and achieve greater cost efficiency in resource and expertise utilization.

Read this article in BioPharm International’s Partnerships for Outsourcing May 2021 eBook.

About the authors

Laurent Lafferrère, PhD, is chief operating officer, and Audrey Brussel*, PhD, [email protected], is Viral Safety leader; both are at PathoQuest.

*To whom all correspondence should be addressed.

Article Details

BioPharm International
eBook: Partnerships for Outsourcing, May 2021
May 2021
Pages: 12–16

Citations

When referring to this article, please cite it as L. Lafferrère and A. Brussel, “Challenges When Outsourcing Viral Safety Services," BioPharm International Partnerships for Outsourcing eBook (May 2021).