Manufacturing Today Issue 205 Issue 205 - October 2022 | Page 128

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proud of this continued growth this change , Resilience believes that the driving force has to come from the outside . “ Major pharmaceutical companies aren ’ t afforded the time to develop new manufacturing platforms ,” Rahul argues . “ Regulatory pathways are fast , and if drugs are proven to work , timelines can be shrunk down to between three or four years . At Resilience , we ’ re decoupling these two activities , focusing on developing the platforms that can then be supplied to companies from the get-go , for them to produce scalable , low-cost , high-yield products . “ In many cases within drugs and medicines manufacturing , what drives overall cost is both the cost of goods , and the cost of development ,” he elaborates . “ If we can develop better platforms that are able to reduce both those costs , then it creates an opportunity to reduce the price of the drug itself . If we can achieve that , then the drug will immediately become more accessible . Of course , we have to work within the system to make that happen ; we can ’ t set the price of drugs , because we ’ re not a drugs manufacturer . However , we ’ re providing the basis for a price reduction to take place .”

“ This is the dawn of the golden medicines , such as tablets or capsules . era of biomanufacturing ,” Rahul tells Unfortunately , not much effort has us . “ As a society , we have moved been made in the past to come up away from palliative therapies to with scalable platforms that can make embrace new types of medicines . these types of medicines affordable These medicines have the potential to deliver cures with a single intervention , be it certain cancers , rare inherited diseases , and increasingly common diseases , such as diabetes and heart disease . Although we ’ re excited about what this medicine

has in store for us , we recognize that the manufacture of these novel treatments – such as MRNA Covid-19 vaccines – requires a very different skill set to the manufacture of traditional and accessible for large populations .” To bring about

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proud of this continued growth this change , Resilience believes that the driving force has to come from the outside . “ Major pharmaceutical companies aren ’ t afforded the time to develop new manufacturing platforms ,” Rahul argues . “ Regulatory pathways are fast , and if drugs are proven to work , timelines can be shrunk down to between three or four years . At Resilience , we ’ re decoupling these two activities , focusing on developing the platforms that can then be supplied to companies from the get-go , for them to produce scalable , low-cost , high-yield products . “ In many cases within drugs and medicines manufacturing , what drives overall cost is both the cost of goods , and the cost of development ,” he elaborates . “ If we can develop better platforms that are able to reduce both those costs , then it creates an opportunity to reduce the price of the drug itself . If we can achieve that , then the drug will immediately become more accessible . Of course , we have to work within the system to make that happen ; we can ’ t set the price of drugs , because we ’ re not a drugs manufacturer . However , we ’ re providing the basis for a price reduction to take place .”

Since its launch , Resilience has ridden a wave of momentum , driven
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