Development Partnerships

Bring us the challenge.

Symbio works as a contract research, development and manufacturing (CRDMO) partner for technically demanding API, intermediate, pre-formulation and specialised chemistry programmes.

We can enter at the route, the process, the pre-formulation step or the manufacturing stage, depending on what the programme needs.

Chemists running a development programme in the Symbio R&D centre

Start with the problem

Not a menu of services.
A problem to solve.

Tell us what you are trying to achieve.

A route that needs to improve. A timeline that needs compressing. A chemistry problem that is refusing to behave. A process that needs to move into manufacturing. A molecule that needs something more than the API alone.

We will assess the technical risk, commercial constraints and most practical path forward with you.

How we can work with you

Start where your programme needs us.

Research & Route Development

Route scouting, IP-aware process design, process optimisation and impurity strategy.

Analytical & Process Understanding

Analytical method development, impurity characterisation, process understanding and documentation built alongside the chemistry.

Pre-formulation & Specialised Platforms

Value-added pellets & granules and selected pre-formulation development where the molecule needs more than an API.

Technology Transfer & Manufacturing

Kilo / pilot demonstration, technology transfer, validation, GMP manufacturing and continued commercial supply.

Why Symbio

Because good chemistry is only half the story.

Agile execution

Fast decisions. Senior technical and business teams stay close to the work, so questions reach the people who can answer them.

Technically demanding chemistry

Experience across multi-step synthesis, biocatalysis, specialised reactions and impurity-driven process development.

Commercial thinking

We challenge routes for manufacturability, cost and long-term competitiveness, not only laboratory performance.

Continuity into manufacturing

The technical understanding built during development stays close to the programme as it moves into manufacturing.

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What are you working on?

Bring us the molecule, the route or simply the problem.

We will tell you how we think we can help.