Pharma Now's "Inside CDMO: Behind the Glass" Goes Inside Drug-Delivery Engineering with Phillips Medisize's Justin Westendorf
Pharma Now's Inside CDMO features Phillips Medisize's Justin Westendorf on drug-delivery engineering, human factors, and building usable, meaningful devices.
MUMBAI, INDIA — Pharma Now, the global pharmaceutical knowledge platform, released the latest episode of Inside CDMO: Behind the Glass, its original series spotlighting the leaders who run contract development and manufacturing organizations under constant client visibility. This episode features Justin Westendorf, Director of Global R&D at Phillips Medisize, who has spent his entire 26-year career at the company — rising from an engineering training program through mold design, program management, and engineering leadership on drug-delivery devices and inhalers, before building a new global team in 2022 uniting human factors, design, and innovation.
The conversation, hosted by Michael Bani, Editor-in-Chief (US & Europe) at Pharma Now, explores what separates a drug-delivery device that truly works from one that merely looks like it should. Westendorf shared his product-development philosophy — that a device must be simultaneously useful, usable, meaningful, and viable — and traced his own career as evidence of how Phillips Medisize's model begins earlier than conventional CDMOs. `
"We believe every product, if it's going to be successful in the market, has to be simultaneously useful, usable, meaningful, and viable."
— Justin Westendorf, Director of Global R&D, Phillips Medisize
The episode also covers how the acquisition of Vectura expanded Phillips Medisize's capabilities in inhalation, and how Westendorf coaches junior engineers toward agency and critical thinking rather than deference to seniority.
About Inside CDMO: Behind the Glass
Inside CDMO: Behind the Glass is a Pharma Now original series examining what it takes to run a contract development and manufacturing organization under constant client visibility — zero inventory cushion, real-time transparency, and the operational discipline that defines trust in the CDMO industry.
About Pharma Now
Pharma Now is a global pharmaceutical knowledge platform that brings together industry leaders, experts, and innovators to share insights shaping the future of pharmaceutical manufacturing, technology, and leadership.
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The full episode is available on:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/g6hjY_q2tfM?si=B_EAu3bi83w2nnmi
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Akn6ME31RMWWXtQUD3Vrz?si=G7YYeZqpR5WOHsQZGWaKJg
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