Finalists for CPHI Pharma Awards 2025 Announced

Winners for each of the 14 categories will be chosen from the selected finalists and revealed during the CPHI Celebration event at CPHI Frankfurt on October 28, 2025.  

The shortlisted finalists for the CPHI Frankfurt Pharma Awards 2025 have been revealed. Spanning 14 categories, the awards recognize outstanding achievements with the potential to shape the future of the industry (1).

“Across every category, the finalists are setting new standards in pharmaceutical innovation, sustainability, and patient impact,” said Tara Dougal, CPHI Event Director at Informa Markets, in a press release (1). “The CPHI Pharma Awards are a vital platform to spotlight the progress shaping the future of our industry. We’re looking forward to celebrating these achievements and announcing the winners on the opening day of CPHI Frankfurt.”

The winners of the awards will be announced during the CPHI Celebration event, taking place on Oct. 28, 2025 from 6 pm at the Messe Frankfurt. A full list of the shortlisted finalists can be found below:

Accelerating Innovation

• NunaBio — custom, cell-free, synthetic DNA made in days to weeks

• TriLink BioTechnologies — GMP-grade CleanCap M6 analog

• Covestro Deutschland — mono-material drug delivery demonstrator

• Accord Healthcare — innovative treatment for prostate cancer care, Orgovyx

• Invengene — room temperature-stable generic posaconazole injection using hydroxypropyl beta-cyclodextrin

• Prestige Biopharma — targeted monoclonal antibody for pancreatic cancer, Ulenistamab

API Development and Innovation

• Lonza — Design2Optimize

• CMAC — From Crystallization to Tablet: A Scalable Platform for API Agglomeration

• Merck KgaA — mPredict Co-crystal Prediction Service

• CordenPharm International — TAPS: TAG Assisted Peptide Synthesis

At the Heart of Pharma

• Accord Healthcare — A Decade of Impact with International Health Partners

• PharmEvo Pvt —Elevating Patient Safety Through Intelligent Design

• Strides —Enhancing Access to Affordable Healthcare — HIV

• Farmak International — Resilient by Design: Farmak Group’s Ukrainian-Rooted Network Blueprint for Crisis-Proof Global Supply

• CNX Therapeutics — Talent without barriers: CNX’s inclusive recruitment program with the Social Mobility Foundation

Drug Delivery & Device Innovation

• Azelis Group — Advanced Peristomal Barrier and Adhesion Cream (Topical Medical Device)

• SHL Medical — Reunite

• LTS Lohmann Therapie Systems AG — The device component of the first biosimilar in an on-body Injector

• Ypsomed — Uniting sustainability and patient convenience in self-injection devices

Finished Formulation

• Evonik Industries — EUDRACAP colon — the world’s first functional ready-to-fill capsule for oral drug delivery to target the ileo-colonic region

• Lonza Capsules & Health Ingredients — Innovaform Innovation and Formulation Accelerator

• CrystecPharma — Modified Supercritical Anti-Solvent (mSAS) particle engineering for stabilization of biomolecules

• Roquette — ReadiLYCOAT Plant-Based Coating Systems: Innovating drug formulation with sustainable hydroxypropyl pea starch film coating system for enhanced oral dosage solutions

• Zerion Pharma A/S — Dispersome technology

Manufacturing Excellence

• Coriolis Pharma Research — Advanced Lyophilization Modelling: Redefining process excellence in biomanufacturing

• Enzene — EnzeneX — Fully-connected continuous manufacturing

• Bausch+Ströbel + Co. KG — GENEX

• VectorBuilder — VectorBuilder's CDMO Platform

Packaging & Machinery

• SCHOTT Pharma — SCHOTT TOPPAC infuse — the next generation

• IMA LIFE — TILE-X

• H&T Presspart — Vytal innovative RTU snap-fit closure

Start-up Initiative

• Green Elephant Biotech — CellScrew

• NunaBio — custom, cell-free, synthetic DNA made in days to weeks

• NovoArc — lipids for innovative drug formulation

• ORYL Photonics — ORYL F1

Supply Chain Excellence

• Cryoport Systems — Cryoport Systems' Integrated End-to-End Supply Chain Platform

• Occam Systems — Occam Systems: Resilient Chemical Supply Chains. Supercharged by Artificial Intelligence

• QYOBO — QYOBO platform — actionable value across the entire pharmaceutical supply chain

• TraceLink — TraceLink Orchestration Platform for Universal Solutions (OPUS)

Sustainability

• Celtic Renewables — bio-based chemicals (acetone, butanol & ethanol) made from by-products and waste

• Enantios — Enantios platform

• Avantor — J.T.Baker Viral Inactivation Solution — environmentally safer detergent for virus removal in bioprocessing

• AustinPx — KinetiSol Technology

• Kindeva — next-generation propellants

• Alliance to Zero — Lean, Green and Secure: A regulatory-ready blister-free syringe solution

• Huhtamaki — Omnilock Ultra PAPER

• Botanical Solution Inc. — Sustainability Grows on Trees: Producing the gold standard vaccine adjuvant QS-21 through in-lab cultivation and extraction from Quillaja saponaria trees

CEO of the Year

• Bora Pharmaceuticals — Bobby Sheng

• Sentiss Pharma — Deepak Bahri

• ten23 health — Hanns-Christian Mahler

• FUJIFILM Biotechnologies — Lars Petersen

• Prestige Biopharma — Lisa Soyeon Park

• CordenPharma International — Michael Quirmbach

Future Leader

• Mabion — Jakub Knurek

• Nelipak Laboratory Services — Mark Kelada

• CinnaGen — Mohammad Farahani

• Esteve CDMO — Yolanda Gomez

• YSK Laboratories Pvt Ltd — Yuvansh Khokhani

Woman of the Year

• Polpharma Biologics — Adriana Kiędzierska-Mencfeld

• Rentschler Biopharma — Christiane Bardroff

• Sunresin — Dr. Ivy Gao

• Pfizer CentreOne — Jennifer Gattari

• Coripharma — Jonina Gudmundsdottir

• Ecolab Life Sciences — Meeta Gulyani

Reference

1. Informa. CPHI Frankfurt Pharma Awards 2025 Finalists Announced. Press Release. Sept. 18, 2025.

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