2015
CMO LEADERSHIP AWARDS
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RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY: PRESENTED BY:
Industry Leaders by
Market Segment
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Company Profiles
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE AWARDS
Life Science Leader's readership of pharmaceutical
and biopharmaceutical executives have told us
about their struggles in vetting CMO partners. In
response, Life Science Leader developed the CMO
Leadership Awards based on industry research
conducted by Nice Insight. The awards incorporate
common filters used by pharma companies to vet
CMOs with the added filter of peer feedback. This
helps pharma and biopharma companies focus on
potential CMO partners who can handle their proj-
ects and are considered reputable in the industry.
Nice Insight combines surveying thousands of
industry executives with other key analyses to
serve both partnering groups, and facilitate better
overall outsourcing collaborations. Since there
are significant differences in how different types
of companies approach outsourcing, research
respondents are assigned to one of five categories:
big pharma, midsize and specialty pharma,
emerging pharma, biotech, and emerging biotech.
Scores are assessed by each company type in five
perception categories: Innovation, Productivity,
Quality, Regulatory, and Reliability. Companies
achieving top 10 percentile perception scores
are recognized for their achievement with a 2015
CMO Leadership Award.
Unlike other industry awards that are given
based on a voting or nomination process, the
only votes that count towards the CMO Leadership
Awards are those of the pharmaceutical and bio-
pharmaceutical companies using CMO services.