OBN’s Guides showcase the expertise of our corporate partners and members, giving members access to practical insights and resources. Each guide is designed to help you save time and money, make valuable connections, and secure investment opportunities to drive growth.
Starting Your Medical Device Development Journey: 5-Step Approach:
By Oxford Product Design
OPD’s guide encourages engaging early, sharing what you know, and choosing the right starting route (RFP or Phase 0) to shape clear requirements.
Using their evidence-led NPS framework, OPD helps build a risk-reduced development roadmap, giving you the clarity, confidence, and expert support needed to launch your medical device project successfully.
Pre-IND enabling activities: Understanding the Pre-IND Phase through to First-in-Human (FIH) Studies
By ThermoFisher Scientific
Before submitting an IND/IMPD, biotechs must generate key IND-enabling data – nonclinical safety, CMC, and preclinical efficacy – while building a clear clinical and regulatory plan for first-in-human studies.
An IND package includes safety and PK/PD data, manufacturing details, and clinical protocols. Because success depends on tight coordination across nonclinical, CMC, clinical, and regulatory teams, companies should start planning early to ensure a smooth path into human trials.
Supplier Consolidation Process: A streamlined 5-step approach
By OBN (UK) Ltd
Supplier consolidation helps organisations cut costs, boost efficiency, and improve quality by streamlining their supplier base.
The guide outlines five key steps: understand your current supplier landscape, set clear consolidation goals with stakeholders, rigorously evaluate and select the best long-term suppliers, create strong transition and risk-mitigation plans, and continually monitor and optimise supplier performance.
Done well, consolidation strengthens relationships, reduces risk, and drives greater overall value.
Insurance 101: For Life Science Businesses
By Partners&
Insurance forms part of the building blocks of financial protection for any company. It can be a confusing world to navigate, especially when it comes to the specialist needs of science and technology businesses.
Partners& have created this guide as a convenient, plain-English explanation of essential insurance elements for your business – a route map to financial resilience for science and tech organisations.
Intellectual Property: A Brief Guide
By Venner Shipley
Venner Shipley help innovators protect and leverage their intangible assets – such as inventions, brands, designs and creative works – through patents, trade marks, design rights and copyright.
These IP rights can safeguard market space, generate income, enhance business value and support investment, while also helping organisations avoid infringing others’ rights. This brief guide outlines the key types of IP protection, how they work, and why managing IP effectively is essential for commercial success.
