Featured Bioprocessing Editorial
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Will FDA's One-Day Inspection Pilot Stand The Test Of Time?
5/19/2026
FDA's complementary pilot could help weed through a persistent examination backlog, but uncertainty and upheaval in leadership at the top puts its future in question.
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A Multi-Agent Audit Intelligence Framework For CDMO Quality Oversight
5/18/2026
A Takeda quality executive demonstrates how a team of AI agents uses synthetic data to provide decision support ahead of CDMO audits.
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Why Contamination Control By Design Should Matter To Your CDMO
5/18/2026
EU GMP Annex 1 mandates a documented contamination control strategy, and FDA expectations are substantively equivalent. Let's look at why CDMOs are disproportionately exposed.
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Repeating Sanofi's Ballroom Design On Two Continents
5/15/2026
Moveable walls and a stunning number of robotics at its sites in France and Singapore, among other features, has earned Sanofi international recognition for innovation.
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Closing The MES Value Gap: Why Technology Isn't The Problem
5/14/2026
Manufacturing execution system (MES) technical maturity is rising, but adoption across manufacturing sites is uneven. Organizational readiness may hold the key.
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Why Are Life Science Companies So Poorly Prepared For RIM's Future?
5/11/2026
Most organizations have modernized their global regulatory information management (RIM) systems and improved data quality. Yet modernization and readiness are not the same thing.
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CDMO Capacity Crunch: Are Biotechs Wasting Time On The Wrong CDMO?
5/8/2026
Biotechs often default to one of two flawed instincts: pursue the biggest name in the space or go with the lowest bidder. To avoid misalignment, look at these less visible factors.
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April 2026 — CDMO Opportunities And Threats Report
5/8/2026
Each month, Outsourced Pharma works in conjunction with PharmSource, part of GlobalData, to present its “Contract Manufacturing: Opportunities and Threats (CMOT) Report” to our readers. The report identifies CDMOs that might be impacted by key events affecting their clients, including company acquisitions, product acquisitions and licenses, product approvals, late clinical product terminations, and FDA rejections.
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Why Your MES RFP Is Failing Before It Starts
5/6/2026
Many manufacturing execution system requests for proposals fail. Not because vendors cannot deliver or the tech is immature, but because the requirements are written backward.
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Here's How FDA's Accelerated Approval Pathway Has Evolved Since '24
5/5/2026
FDA's accelerated approval guidance kicked off a rebalancing of new drug approval pathways. Since its 2024 release, the agency has been building on it in a few key areas.