Molecule to Market: Inside the outsourcing space

In this episode of Molecule to Market, you’ll go inside the outsourcing space of the global drug development sector with Kent Payne, CEO at Aliri Bioanalysis.

Your host Raman Sehgal, discusses the pharmaceutical and biotechnology supply chain with Kent, covering:

• Being exposed to scientific efficiencies early on in his career as a bench scientist, and what it took to bring a successful NDA to market


• The formative years of Catalent, and helping to establish its early biologics and bioanalysis capabilities


• He shares his core principles playbook for getting a company back on track and on a path for growth


• The value of getting scientists in front of the client to build relationships and demonstrate technical know-how


• The strong fundamentals that attracted him to Aliri, and having hot RNA therapeutic capabilities to offer the market


• How Aliri was formed through the merger of three well-established players in the bioanalytical space: Tandem Labs, Pyxant Labs, and ImaBiotech

Dr. Kent Payne is distinguished as a business operator and leader in sales, commercial manufacturing, and product development. He has extensive executive experience in M&A and successfully running start-up, growth, and turnaround businesses in Fortune 500 and Private Equity environments. Kent currently serves as the CEO of Aliri Bioanalysis (an Archimed investment company) and board director for GBI (a Signet Healthcare Partners company). He previously served as the CEO of BioDuro-Sundia, LLC (an Advent International company)

Aliri Bioanalysis is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its operations in Salt Lake City, Utah, which coincidently, is also the location of the AAPS annual meeting this year. Kent and team are marking this special occasion during the conference where they will showcase their technical expertise with over a dozen scientific posters and presentations. He also wanted to let our listeners know that his team would be happy to host personal tours of their lab in Salt Lake to those attending the conference. Simply email [email protected] to learn more.

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