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Welcome to the PharmaSource podcast: the pharma and biotech podcast that explores the latest trends, challenges, and commercial opportunities shaping the biopharma manufacturing and outsourcing. In each episode we'll be speaking with top executives, researchers, and outsourcing experts, who share their perspectives on topics such as building a smarter, more sustainable supply chain, how to partner with CDMOs, digital transformation, procurement and external manufacturing strategies, and plenty more besides. Make sure to subscribe for your regular dose of pharma insight.
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CDMO Consolidation “Inevitable” Without Business Model Shift, Warns Cell Therapy CEO
Monday, 16 March, 2026

“CDMOs and Biotechs will both die,” warns NKILT Therapeutics CEO as he talks candidly about the funding crisis stalling cell therapy development, predicting widespread consolidation across biotechs and CDMOs unless the industry shifts toward risk-sharing partnership models that align manufacturing economics with capital constraints.Raphaël Ognar, CEO and co-founder of NKILT Therapeutics, brings 29 years of pharmaceutical and biotech experience spanning marketing, drug development, and corporate strategy at major pharmaceutical companies. After launching a consulting practice focused on early-stage immuno-oncology biotechs, Raphaël co-founded NKILT Therapeutics.NKILT’s off-the-shelf allogeneic approach (as opposed to patient-specific autologous therapies) targets HLA-G, an immunosuppressive molecule expressed across major cancer types including colorectal, breast, prostate, and kidney cancers, providing access to substantially larger patient populations while improving manufacturing scalability and economics.His company’s 12-month IND delay exemplifies the systemic pressures that continue to threaten cell therapy innovation, and both sides of the CDMO-biotech relationship.Read more.