The 2017 Pharma Outsourcing Summit: Closing Chair Remarks by Mark Fromhold (Ph.D., Director, Biologics Outsourcing, Gilead Sciences)

Check out Mark Fromhold’s closing chair remarks at the 2017 American Pharma Outsourcing Summit:

“It’s been an absolute pleasure moderating the American Pharma Outsourcing Summit. There’s been a tremendous amount of discussion on topics ranging from QA, legal, tech transfer, to building internal and external partnerships to supply chain security. From this broad range of topics, common themes that stick out from the two days of presentations include the need to collaborate, communicate and have a common passion for what we’re trying to do, which is treating patients and helping improve people’s lives.

At Gilead Sciences, “We are inspired by the opportunity to meet unmet medical needs of patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world, and I believe that everyone at this event shares this same passion and appreciates that increased collaboration will be required for us to continue to being successful moving forward.”

In industry, we are seeing new paradigms evolving with the continuing consolidation of contract development and manufacturing organizations. We’re also seeing new manufacturing paradigms, such as disposables for biologics, continuous processing, as well as niche and personalized medicines moving forward. The continuing evolution of the outsourcing market and development of more personalized therapeutic strategies will require us as an industry to find ways to collaborate more seamlessly to effectively address manufacturing challenges and cost- of-goods associated with these new opportunities. These are just a few examples of the many areas that need to be discussed to carve a new path forward. 

Thank you for attending the American Pharma Outsourcing Summit and all the contributions that you have made to this. Generis Group would like engaged professionals like yourself to be part of the event Advisory Board help shape the event moving forward. Details can be found here.

Again, thank you to all this year’s attendees, sponsors, and speakers, who helped make this year special. I’m really hoping to see all of you back next year.” 

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