Leif Kuse: Nudging the industry towards innovation with group purchasing for biotechs

Transformation in Trials

This week we speak to Leif Kuse, who is Lead Trailblazer of Drug Development Outsourcing Disruption and CEO PHARALL.

We speak about group purchasing for biotechs in clinical trials. We start out by exploring how CRO contracting usually happens for biotechs, where clinical trials are typically outsourced to CROs.

Biotech outsourcing is especially tricky, because in especially smaller companies, there may not be competencies to handle a sudden increase of people working for the company by adding a partner to the organization.

There are several models for collaborating with vendors - from a turnkey project, where you just “hand over the key” to a vendor, and wait for the results - to a close explorative collaboration, where the partner is basically a part of your organization.

We discuss the difference in services and pricing that is on the table for big pharmaceutical companies and biotechs, exploring the dynamics of the market and collaboration models.

There is no ideal CRO for a biotech - it all depends on what is needed, and how a collaboration can be established. Leif provides examples of great collaborations between CROs and biotech companies - where processes, culture and contracts all meshed.

The patient stands to benefit from successful collaboration between sponsors and CROs. The trials can be executed more smoothly and drugs can make it to market more rapidly.

Lastly we discuss if the pharmaceutical value chain could be decentralized in general, with companies like PHARALL brokering different parts of the value chain into a coherent whole.

Guest:

Leif Kuse

https://www.linkedin.com/in/leif-kuse-32042411/

PHARALL

https://pharall.de/

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