Pharma custom manufacturing today

摘要

How many of you remember the late 90s? It was a time of great excitement during which huge growth rotes in custom manufacturing were predicted. Most pharmoceutical companies were only thinking about launching new blockbusters and investing heavily in research to accelerate development of their pipelines. For those of us there of that time it was the dawn of a new age in which for the first time it was even speculated that Pharma would focus more on its core competencies of product development and marketing whilst at the some time reducing its manufacturing activities for which it would turn more and more to external CMOs?