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.

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