CMO Locator

It's been a while since I've posted, and that is because I have been hidden away working on the very latest Kymanox product, CMO Locator.



CMO Locator is a free search engine specifically designed to help you find Biopharma Contract Manufacturing Organizations that are able to manufacture the Drug Product (API) or Drug Substance (Fill/Finish) that your biotech drug development process requires.

Recently we spent a good deal of time looking for a search engine that would help us identify the best CMO with the right capabilities for the drug development project of a large client. We realized that this search required far too much time and effort to even get to a "short list" of possible candidates. Since there wasn't a good search engine out there, we decided to build one! As a result, we are currently compiling a list of all of the production lines and capabilities of all of the Contract Manufacturing Organizations that we have come in contact with.



Our CMO Search Engine contains the following search options for Drug Substance (API):

Platform: Cell Culture, Microbial
Reactor Scale: 1-100L, 100L-2000L, 2000L-5000L, 5000L +
Bioreactor Process: Batch, Fed-Batch, Perfusion
Compliance Level: Phase I/II, Phase III, Commercial
Biosafety Level: BSL 1, BSL 2, BSL 3, BSL 4
Additional Services: Analytical Services, Cell Banking, Cell Line Development, Preclinical Manufacturing, Process Development, Viral Manufacturing
Regions: Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia/New Zealand

For Drug Product (Fill/Finish), you can search on:

Dosage Form: Liquid, Lyophilized
Batch Size: 1-5000, 5000-20000, 20000-50000, 50000+
Vial Size: 2ml, 3ml, 5ml, 10ml, 20ml, 20+ ml
Compliance Level: Phase I/II, Phase III, Commercial
Biosafety Level: BSL 1, BSL 2, BSL 3, BSL 4
Additional Services: Analytical Services, Formulation Development, Preclinical Manufacturing, Prefilled Syringes, Stability Studies, Viral Manufacturing
Regions: Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia/New Zealand

If you own or represent a CMO, please follow this link to add or request access to your CMO profile (it's free for base level "Active" listings):

Add your CMO to CMO Locator

We at Kymanox are very excited about this new Biopharma CMO search engine and are striving to make it the only place to come on the web to find your next CMO. We hope it will serve the biopharma industry well.

Marketing our Kymanox Training

Kymanox will be presenting four two-day courses in the next couple of months, and I've undertaken an marketing campaign to help promote it. If you received our email, or saw our online ads, we hope you will be able to attend!

We are very excited about the opportunity to share our wealth of knowledge of both Technology Transfer and Project Management in the Biopharmaceutical Industry. The courses will be presented at BTEC (Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center), at North Carolina State University.

"Project Management in Drug Development: Phase III to Commercialization and Beyond" will be presented on June 8-9, 2009, and July 13-14, 2009 at Room 123 of BTEC. It will focus on how to discover the right cross-functional team to ensure project success. Other items will include how to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders and how to prevent communication breakdowns. This course will be presented by Stephen M. Perry.

"Universal Technology Transfer Methodologies for Biopharmaceuticals" will be presented on June 15-16, 2009 and July 27-28, 2009 and will focus on how to setup a team of professionals to ensure a successful technology transfer. It will show you how to assess the feasibility, business, and regulatory impact, and how to identify necessary actions and create detailed assay and process transfer plans for your project. This course will be presented by both Stephen M. Perry and Vladimir Kostyukovsky.

While developing a marketing plan for these classes, I decided that the best course of action was to market to our large network of friends and colleagues. While a direct mail or print advertisement would have been a fantastic addition, both of these types of marketing require more lead time, are higher cost, and are not very easily tracked with respect to the leads and final outcomes they provide. In this day and age, social marketing is becoming more and more applicable. We chose a marketing plan which involved sending emails to our close friends and collegues, and also an online advertising campaign which targeted keywords and location, as well as specific websites that would have the type of membership that would be interested in our classes. I will post the results of our campaign in a few weeks when it is complete.

If you have any comments or suggestions, I'm open to feedback. Just contact me at the email listed above.