Startup Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology

Gain confidence in your cross-functional plans, processes, and ability to meet urgent milestones—and hit the timelines promised to investors. IPM can help biopharma startups build the structures and plans that achieve immediate and long-term goals.

Your pharmaceutical or biotechnology discovery has already shown promise and has piqued the interest of investors. Now it’s time to ensure your research, development, clinical operations, CMC, and regulatory teams and vendors are all on the same page so you can move forward with confidence. Is your team executing efficiently? Do you have the right resources? Are you planning for likely risks?

The challenges of moving from a research-focused company to a clinical development company are real. You now have to execute multiple workstreams while building the culture, structure, consistent processes, and efficient tools that will keep progress on track and accelerating.

How We Help

IPM understands the high-stress environment of executing with limited resources and compressed timelines. Our pharma and biotech consultants bring the experience and expertise to set you up for success and help you execute. Using up-to-date project and program techniques, they build and lead integrated, cross-functional plans. With leadership and interpersonal skills, they motivate and engage the team. The result: You achieve urgent regulatory filings or other critical milestones on time.

But moving from a preclinical startup to a growth company takes organizational stability. IPM can help your leadership team develop governance and structure. Customized project management processes and product development frameworks will make you faster and more efficient. And they’ll make your milestones and status reporting more predictable.

You can achieve short- and long-term strategic goals and maintain the confidence of investors and other stakeholders. With IPM’s experienced biopharma leadership and fit-for-purpose solutions in place, you can focus on driving the science or the fundraising.

We have supported the organizational growth and stability of startup biopharma companies in all stages:

  • Research
  • Preclinical
  • Clinical
  • Commercial readiness
  • Commercial launch
  • On-market expansion

 

Partner with IPM’s Pharma and Biotech Consultants to Address Your Critical Needs

With deep industry and functional expertise and decades of experience, IPM brings tailored solutions as your growing company needs them. Our project management consultants often provide clients what they need before they realize they need it.

Accelerate product development
IPM’s experience enables us to fill diverse roles and hit the ground running. Achieve critical milestones on time and accelerate product development with holistic, cross-functional timelines and collaboration. We develop detailed plans, identify gaps and key dependencies, do risk planning, and make it easy to report progress to your C-suite and investors. Tap our expertise in leading development teams, managing suppliers and alliance partners, and directing new drug commercialization.

Build scalable systems and processes
IPM consultants install customized project management offices, tools, and frameworks that not only speed up milestones, but also make progress more predictable. Demonstrate product feasibility and maintain stakeholder confidence as we build scalable procedures that grow with the company.

Gain regulatory approval
Consultants with quality and regulatory expertise bridge silos to lead successful and timely investigational new drug (IND), new drug application (NDA), biologics license application (BLA), and other regulatory submissions.

 

Count on IPM for Expert Pharma and Biotech Project Management Consulting

Our pharmaceutical and biotechnology consultants have supported more than 100 startup companies over the past 10 years. There, we’ve led multifunctional teams through projects and programs throughout the development cycle, from lead identification through regulatory submission and commercialization.

IPM’s pharma and biotech consultants have an average of 20 years’ experience and are Project Management Institute (PMP) certified. Most also hold advanced degrees (PhDs, MBAs, MS) and other certifications (Six Sigma, Lean, RAC).

Contact us to learn how our pharma biotech consultants can help you grow. 

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Pharmaceutical & Biotech Consulting Services

Product Development – Life Sciences

IPM’s deep experience leading the development of new drugs and therapies can help your pharma or biotech startup navigate complex clinical pathways and manage accelerated product development.

Project Leadership

Rely on IPM’s world-class project leadership, processes, tools, and training, combined with industry experience, to deliver successful outcomes for your pharmaceutical or biotech startup.

Regulatory Submissions – Life Sciences

IPM has the experience and expertise to lead your cross-functional team to successful and timely regulatory submissions for new drugs, treatments, and therapies.

Quality & Compliance

IPM’s consultants can help your startup pharmaceutical or biologic company meet new regulations and identify gaps that could lead to disruptive compliance problems.

Project Management Office (PMO)

IPM’s experts can establish, enhance, or lead your Project Management Office to optimize project, program, and portfolio management capabilities for your pharma or biotech startup.

Commercialization in Life Sciences

Startup pharma and biotech companies can accelerate product launch, getting drugs and therapies to market faster, with IPM’s expertise in leading cross-functional commercialization projects.

Change Management

With high R&D costs and a complex regulatory landscape, successful startups must learn to adapt. IPM’s change management consultants empower your team to embrace and manage change.

System Selection & Implementation

With an understanding of business process optimization and technology, IPM helps pharma and biotech startups find the right systems to manage discovery, product development, and project portfolios.

Integration Management

Pharmaceutical and biotech startups can create long-term value from M&A integrations. IPM can lead your integration, build an Integration Management Office, or develop a custom M&A playbook.

Project Portfolio Management

Prioritize projects and better manage resources to achieve your startup company’s key goals. IPM’s project portfolio management consultants enhance decision-making, communication, and governance.

Strategy Realization

Transform strategic initiatives into action, align resources, and enhance capabilities to achieve the key objectives of your pharmaceutical or biotech startup with IPM’s Strategic Realization Model.

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What Our Clients Are Saying

"We were aware that if we hired an IPM project manager, there would be a whole system of knowledge behind that person that would really help us as we were going through new transitions for our company—preparing for NDA, preparing for commercial—and help us better anticipate what would be ahead of us and plan for that."

Ericka Benson VP Portfolio and Program Management, Catabasis Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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Our Experts

Monroe Hatch IPM Senior Director

Monroe Hatch

Senior Director, Corporate Business Development

Stacy Townsend IPM Director

Stacy Townsend

Director

Andy Myslicki IPM Managing Director

Andy Myslicki

Managing Director

Emily Chen IPM Senior Consultant

Emily Chen

Senior Consultant

Ashley Mallat IPM Senior Consultant

Ashley Mallat

Senior Consultant

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