PharmaSource Podcast

Welcome to the PharmaSource podcast: the pharma and biotech podcast that explores the latest trends, challenges, and commercial opportunities shaping the biopharma manufacturing and outsourcing.In each episode we'll be speaking with top executives, researchers, and outsourcing experts, who share their perspectives on topics such as building a smarter, more sustainable supply chain, how to partner with CDMOs, digital transformation, procurement and external manufacturing strategies, and plenty more besides.Make sure to subscribe for your regular dose of pharma insight.

PharmaSource Podcast is a science podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 271 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts PharmaSource Podcast, a science show with 271 episodes published.

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  How to Select and Sustain an Early-Stage CDMO Partnership

  Oct 1, 202636 min

  At CDMO Live Europe 2026, Giulio Cavalli , Principal Lead External Manufacturing, J&J Innovative Medicine; Neil Stevenson , Director, CMC Logic Consultancy; Marine Joly Battaglini , Founder, PharmDev; and Susan Reasoner , Chief Commercial Officer, BioDuro, examined how early-stage biotechs can avoid common selection mistakes, manage capacity concerns, and build CDMO relationships designed to last beyond Phase 1.

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  What Changes When Pharma Outsources Outcomes, Not Just People?

  Sep 28, 202637 min

  “Traditional staff augmentation says, ‘Here are the people you asked for.’ An outcome-led model says, ‘Here is the service or capability you asked for, and we are accountable and responsible for making it work.’” — Aisling Flanagan Aisling Flanagan, Global SVP of Professional and Managed Services at Catalyx, leads people-based services for regulated manufacturing environments. She works alongside Mike Barrett, Catalyx’s director of sales and operations for the UK and Europe, who focuses on translating client needs into measurable delivery. In this PharmaSource podcast interview, Aisling and Mike explain how pharmaceutical manufacturers can improve staffing outsourcing in pharma manufacturing by buying capability, capacity, and results instead of contractor headcount. Their recommendations cover supplier consolidation, GMP expertise, workforce retention, governance, and performance-based KPIs. Read the full article .

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  Europe Needs to Pick a Side: Why Geopolitics Is Forcing a Rethink of Pharma Supply Network Design

  Sep 24, 202637 min

  Sponsored by Blue Jet Healthcare, this panel at CDMO Live Europe 2026 brought together Bernhard Boehm , Head of External Manufacturing Animal Health, Boehringer Ingelheim; Philip Coetzee , Director CMO Management, Daiichi Sankyo Europe; Fanny Eberhardt , Director Global Procurement, UCB; and Shiven Arora , Managing Director, Blue Jet Healthcare to debate how pharma companies are making network strategy decisions as cost pressures, geopolitical risk, and the limits of tech transfer collide. Read the full article .

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  AI in Biopharma Manufacturing: Why Build-or-Buy Is the Wrong First Question

  Sep 21, 202630 min

  “AI is marketed as such an approachable, ubiquitous thing that everybody thinks they can vibe code it. Unfortunately, a lot of companies are starting to think that way,” says Kat Kozyrytska. Kat Kozyrytska is a portfolio strategy and technology leader in life science technologies who has operated across organizations, including Sartorius and Thermo Fisher, and now advises across the life sciences ecosystem. Her work focuses on translating emerging technologies, including AI, automation, and digital capabilities, into portfolio strategy, partnerships, and business growth. Ahead of CDMO Live Americas , Kat explains why many of the assumptions shaping AI adoption in drug discovery do not translate into biopharma manufacturing. She covers the evolving questions around intellectual property and learning rights, why building AI in-house may be the wrong long-term choice for many companies, and why manufacturers need to move from experimentation toward portfolio-level prioritization if AI is to deliver sustainable business value. Read the full article

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  What CDMOs Get Wrong About AI for Bioprocessing, According to Sapiens Health’s Seungik Cho

  Sep 17, 202637 min

  “How good is your AI model? That’s the wrong question. The right question is: what does your AI model actually help your company do?” Seungik Cho , founder of Sapiens Health, has spent the past year pulling apart the assumption in biomanufacturing that a better-predicting AI model means a better digital twin. His research argues the opposite: that optimizing AI for prediction accuracy can cause these systems to fail in CDMO environments. Seungik Cho is the founder of Sapiens Health and Director of Strategic Operations at Nucleate. He’s finishing his B.S. in Biological Physics at Rice University, where his research explores the intersection between computational biology and multimodal AI. He describes his work as building AI systems that are “trustworthy and deployable,” not just accurate on a benchmark. His recent publications include work on longitudinal CT lesion prediction (IEEE ISBI 2026) and gene network analysis (IEEE BHI 2025). In the latest PharmaSource podcast episode, Seungik explains why he believes CDMOs are pointing their AI investment in the wrong direction and lays out an alternative model built around diagnosis rather than prediction, explainability rather than confidence scores, and institutional memory rather than one-off forecasts. Read the full article .

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