ARTICLES BY BARBARA BERGLUND
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![iStock-690029334]( "Nickels & Dimes: What To Do When Your CDMO Charges You Unexpected Fees")
Nickels & Dimes: What To Do When Your CDMO Charges You Unexpected Fees12/17/2019In many cases, the business development and sales teams from your organization and the contract service provider work separately. What happens when the invoices have unexpected costs?
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![Nanotech_Barbara Berglund_450x300]( "Critical Considerations In Outsourcing Nanotechnology Drugs")
Critical Considerations In Outsourcing Nanotechnology Drugs3/1/2019A look at the benefits of using nanotechnology in drug development and the hurdles that must be overcome to entice a pharma company to offer nanotechnology alternatives to traditional therapy.
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![What To Do When Your CMO Overpromises And Under-Delivers]( "What To Do When Your CMO Overpromises And Under-Delivers")
What To Do When Your CMO Overpromises And Under-Delivers2/13/2018At some point, you may face the looming reality that your critical timeline will not be met, and you are struggling to get a believable commitment from the CMO to report back to your own organization.
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![Business conflict]( "How To Prevent (Or Resolve) Communication Issues With Your CMO’s Project Manager")
How To Prevent (Or Resolve) Communication Issues With Your CMO’s Project Manager9/18/2017You are on your weekly project conference call with your CMO, discussing a product-filling project which is on track. The CMO’s project manager says, “Oh, I am going to go off agenda and ask for your signature by today to go forward with a machine-testing plan. If we don’t do it tomorrow, we might need to push your production run by a couple of weeks.” This is the first you have heard of it.
Barbara Berglund
Barbara Berglund is COO of CMC Turnkey Solutions, where she applies over 20 years of experience in finished pharmaceutical, API, and medical device manufacturing. In particular, she has direct experience with quality assurance and manufacturing of commercial and clinical trial sterile liquid and lyophilized parenterals, microencapsulated products, intravitreal products, suspensions, and solid dosage forms. She has held strategic leadership positions in quality assurance, quality control, sterile manufacturing, and project management and has a particular interest in technical transfers both of processes and analytical procedures. Berglund has an undergraduate degree in chemistry and postgraduate degrees in chemistry and pharmacological and physiological science. She received her PMI PMP (Project Management Institute Project Management Professional) certification in 2007 and her ASQ CQA (American Society for Quality Certified Quality Auditor) and ASQ CMQ/OE (Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence) certifications in 2015.