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Sector Analysis
NewNew Drug Approvals and Their Contract Manufacture – 2024 Edition
This report is the 14th edition of our long-running analysis of the CMO industry, using the FDA's NDA approvals as the primary indicator of performance. New Drug Approvals and Their Contract Manufacture (formerly called "CMO Scorecard") is critical for benchmarking the performance of the contract manufacturing organization (CMO) industry and the relative performance of major CMOs. This year's edition includes a discussion of how inflation and increasing global conflict has impacted pharma manufacturers.
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Sector Analysis
Contract Injectable Packaging Trends in the Bio/Pharma Industry
Injectables and their packaging requirements are very important to marketed treatments given the volume of vaccines required to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and the rising number of biologics in development pipelines and on the market. Most injectable drugs in the development pipeline are biologics, which will become increasingly approved and more established in the treatment landscape in the future. The top contract packaging organizations (CPOs) for injectables by the number of contracts are standalone packagers along with large CMOs which...
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Sector Analysis
Outlook for Viral Vector Contract Manufacturing – Gene Therapies, Cell Therapies, and COVID-19 Vaccines
The bio/pharmaceutical industry is experiencing a shortage of viral vectors, a component needed to produce gene therapies and gene-modified cell therapies, as well as certain COVID-19 vaccines that require a viral vector, notably those from AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson (J&J). This report reveals that viral vector production is limited by insufficient manufacturing capacity, an inefficient manufacturing process, and the requirement for complex specialist facilities. There are 14 therapies/vaccines that use a viral vector (gene therapies, gene-modified cell therapies, and...