Evaluating Biopharma

Episode: 10 - Gene Therapy Analytics: How to Make the Right CMC Investments for Your Business

July 11, 2023 Evaluating Biopharma Season 1 Episode 10
Episode: 10 - Gene Therapy Analytics: How to Make the Right CMC Investments for Your Business
Evaluating Biopharma
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Evaluating Biopharma
Episode: 10 - Gene Therapy Analytics: How to Make the Right CMC Investments for Your Business
Jul 11, 2023 Season 1 Episode 10
Evaluating Biopharma

In this episode of Evaluating Biopharma, Mike Kelly, Senior Vice President at Atsena Therapeutics, shares his experiences and provides his advice on how your company can make proper CMC investments to reduce risk and maximize ROI, including: the make or buy decision, ensuring CMC investment to provide regulators what they need, scalability considerations, identifying technologies and assays to support your strategy, controlling COGS, and building a commercially feasible program profile. He also discusses factors that smaller businesses need to consider when choosing who to work with, such as fully understanding your needs and the compatibility between the sponsor and service provider in terms of technical capability, operational capability, management experience, and problem-solving tactics. 

Links from this episode:  
Evaluating Biopharma 
Black Diamond Networks 
Atsena Therapeutics 

Evaluating Biopharma boiler: Evaluating Biopharma taps into the insight and experience of biopharmaceutical leaders so today’s decision makers can leverage their knowledge, learn from their successes, and avoid repeating similar mistakes. This series offers a new guest and moderator with each episode and aims to equip executives and science leaders with the necessary information to make better business and process decisions. The Evaluating Biopharma podcast is a reproduction of content originally presented at recent Evaluating Biopharma digital and educational networking events.

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In this episode of Evaluating Biopharma, Mike Kelly, Senior Vice President at Atsena Therapeutics, shares his experiences and provides his advice on how your company can make proper CMC investments to reduce risk and maximize ROI, including: the make or buy decision, ensuring CMC investment to provide regulators what they need, scalability considerations, identifying technologies and assays to support your strategy, controlling COGS, and building a commercially feasible program profile. He also discusses factors that smaller businesses need to consider when choosing who to work with, such as fully understanding your needs and the compatibility between the sponsor and service provider in terms of technical capability, operational capability, management experience, and problem-solving tactics. 

Links from this episode:  
Evaluating Biopharma 
Black Diamond Networks 
Atsena Therapeutics 

Evaluating Biopharma boiler: Evaluating Biopharma taps into the insight and experience of biopharmaceutical leaders so today’s decision makers can leverage their knowledge, learn from their successes, and avoid repeating similar mistakes. This series offers a new guest and moderator with each episode and aims to equip executives and science leaders with the necessary information to make better business and process decisions. The Evaluating Biopharma podcast is a reproduction of content originally presented at recent Evaluating Biopharma digital and educational networking events.