Contract Services Enabled the Biopharmaceutical Boom

摘要

There wasn't much of a contract services industry when BioPharm International began publishing 20 years ago. Today's big names in biomanufacturing, including Lonza, Boehringer-Ingelheim, and Avecia, had not yet entered the business. On the fill-and-finish side, only Ben Venue Laboratories and Vetter were focused on contract work. Options for development services were very limited: Microbiological Associates (now known as BioReliance) and AAIPharma were among the few companies offering analytical and formulation support. On the clinical research side, firms such as Quintiles and PPD were just a few years old. Revenues of the contract services industry probably didn't amount to more than dollar100 million.