Excellence in Pharmaceutical CMC Consulting

Our Consulting Services

  • CMC function leadership
    • Project planning and budgeting
    • Contract Development Organization selection
    • Strategy for integration of CMC, clinical and non-clinical development
    • Solve development problems with phase-appropriate solutions
  • Pharmaceutical Product Development
    • Develop drug substance and drug product, including analytical methods
    • Deliver clinical supplies to the project team
    • Author and review regulatory documents
  • Regulatory advice and services
    • FDA interactions
    • Regulatory submissions
    • Submissions strategy
    • SOP authoring and review
  • Sourcing and oversight of synthetic, analytical, and formulation development
    • Vendor selection, GMP auditing, and management
    • Method development
    • Synthetic process development
    • Formulation development
    • Stability studies
  • Analytical development
    • Method development (development phase-appropriate)
    • Method trouble-shooting
    • Validation protocols
    • Stability protocols, data review and organizing
    • Method transfer protocols and oversight
  • Formulation development
    • Evaluation of preclinical data
    • Evaluation of biopharmaceutical properties and BCS category
    • Selection of absorption enhancement technology
    • Select formulation platform based on dose, physical properties, and PK/PD
  • Quality Assurance and Control functions
    • GMP auditing of contract development organizations
    • Certificate of Analysis review
    • Batch record review
  • Auditing of contract development organizations
    • GMP compliance
    • OOS and quality investigations
    • Review of SOP’s, record-keeping, and training documentation
  • Authoring and reviewing regulatory documents
    • Organize and review analytical data, batch records and process descriptions
    • Produce modules or integrated regulatory documents
    • Review modules and integrate comments into a consensus document
    • Deliver regulatory documentation for print or electronic submissions
    • Review complete CMC regulatory submissions and identify gaps
  • Due diligence and drug candidate evaluation
    • On-site visits and document review
    • Drug candidate evaluation reports (CMC area)
    • Representation to potential partners
  • Consultation on intellectual property
  • US Agent for foreign DMF holders
    • DMF submissions to FDA
    • Liaison for FDA contact and correspondence
    • Regulatory advice
    • Document authoring and review
  • Organizational development in the CMC area
    • CMC staff development
    • Development and delivery of training for CMC staff
  • Manufacturing Strategy
    • Supply chain management
    • Site selection
    • Lifecycle planning
  • Japanese topics in pharmaceutical development
    • CMC aspects of drug development for the Japanese market
    • Bio-equivalence requirements in drug development
    • Collaboration with Japanese development
      • Differences in drug development between Japan and ROW
      • Working practices
      • Cultural training
    • Due diligence with Japanese partners

Supplementary Navigation