A list of organic chemistry contract research organizations (CROs) and contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) that provide chemistry services in the United States.
CRO/CMO | Location(s) | Description |
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Abzena | Bristol, PA | Services include custom synthesis and small molecule manufacturing (mg to kg scale). Capabilities include antibody drug conjugation (ADC). |
Acceledev Chemical | Monmouth Junction, NJ | Services cover the spectrum from mg to metric ton scale. Services include R&D, process development, and pilot/commercial production. Have facilities in the US and China. |
Acme Bioscience | Palo Alto, CA | A CRO/CMO whose services include custom synthesis and small molecule manufacturing (mg to kg scale). |
Adesis | New Castle, DE | Custom synthesis from milligram to multi-kilogram scale. Includes early stage research, scale-up & development, and specialty manufacturing. |
Alcami | Germantown, WI | A CDMO that provides comprehensive pharmaceutical development and manufacturing services. Expertise in process development, (cGMP) API manufacturing, and solid state chemistry. |
Ampac Fine Chemicals | Ranch Cordova, CA; La Porte, TX | Manufactures active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and registered intermediates for the pharmaceutical industry. Follow current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP). |
AMRI | Albany, NY; Rensselaer, NY; Buffalo, NY; Grafton, WI | Provides services covering a wide range from drug discovery, to drug development (process development), to API manufacturing (cGMP). Includes potent & cytotoxic compounds as well as controlled substances. |
Apiscent Labs | Milwaukee, WI | Provide chemistry services from gram quantities to large commercial quantities (cGMP) in the metric tons. Serve the pharmaceutical and flavor & fragrance industries. |
Ash Stevens | Riverview, MI | A full-service pharmaceutical contract manufacturer (CMO). Services include process R&D, API manufacturing (cGMP), and high potency API (HPAPI) manufacturing. |
AstaTech | Bristol, PA | Offer services from lab-scale synthesis to commercial production. Have facilities located in the US and China. |
Avista Pharma Solution | Durham, NC; Longmont, CO | Provide custom synthesis from milligrams to kilogram-scale (kilo labs). Services include process development and cGMP API manufacturing. |
BroadPharm | San Diego, CA | Specialize in PEG linkers and advanced Bio-labeling reagents. Services include custom synthesis and medicinal chemistry. |
CalChem Synthesis | San Diego, CA | A Contract Research Organization (CRO) serving the biotech and pharmaceutical industry. Calchem Synthesis is a premier provider of medicinal chemistry, process R&D, and scale-up services. |
Cascade Custom Chemistry | Eugene, OR | Offer services that include custom synthesis, synthetic development, and Phase 1 cGMP manufacturing of API (1-5 kg scale). Also isolate, identify, and synthesize drug or process impurities (reference standards). |
Cayman Chemical | Ann Arbor, MI | Services include medicinal chemistry, custom synthesis, scale-up, and API manufacturing. Have extensive experience with complex syntheses (prostaglandins, eicosanoids, etc.). |
Chem-Impex | Wood Dale, IL | Provide custom synthesis from milligrams to kilograms. Capabilities include unique or special amino acid derivatives, difficult to make chiral building blocks, reference compounds, chiral separation, etc. |
CheminPharma | Branford, CT | Services include medicinal chemistry (custom libraries, lead optimization, etc.), custom synthesis (intermediates, reference compounds, etc.), and process Development/Scale-up. |
Cody Laboratories | Cody, WY | Services include process development, API production, and finished dosage form pain relief medication production. Possess an import license for raw opiate material, allowing cost-competitive production of APIs. |
Creagen Biosciences, Inc | Woburn, MA | Services are primarily medicinal chemistry (exploratory chemistry, lead generation, focused libraries, etc.) and synthetic chemistry (parallel synthesis, intermediates, etc.). |
DSK Biopharma | Morrisville, NC | Provides services including custom synthesis, medicinal chemistry, and API synthesis (multi-kilogram quantities). Also have expertise in in complex syntheses (prostaglandins, luekotrienes, etc.) |
Ereztech | Johns Creek, GA | Offer over 700 metalorganic compounds. |
Focus Synthesis | San Diego, CA | A CRO that provides custom synthesis services (1 mg to 50 g). Supplement their in-house capabilities with a network of external suppliers (delivered up to 100 kg utilizing these suppliers) |
Frontier Scientific | Logan, UT | Provide custom synthesis with a proficiency in organoborons, organotins, porphyrins, silanes, halogenations, cross-coupling reactions, etc. |
Gelest | Morrisville, PA | Manufacture and provide silane, silicone, and metal-organic compounds for advanced technology applications. |
IsoTherapeutics Group | Angelton, TX | A radiopharmaceutical development company that specializes in radiochemistry, radiolabeling, and process/product development. They also provide GLP & cGMP services. |
Johnson Matthey | Devens, MA | Manufacture APIs (GMP) from pre-clinical through commercial production. Capabilities include controlled substances and Highly potent APIs (HPAPIs). Utilize their catalyst expertise to provide various catalyst related services. |
Kalexsyn | Kalamazoo, MI | Provide services including medicinal chemistry, custom synthesis, stable label synthesis, and process development (50 - 500 g). |
KareBay Biochem | Monmouth Junction, NJ | A company that provides services such as custom organic synthesis, oligonucleoside synthesis, and peptide synthesis. |
Lacamas Laboratories | Portland, OR | A CMO specializing in pharmaceutical intermediates, fine chemicals, and dyes on the metric-ton scale. |
Materia | Pasadena, CA | Industry leaders in the area of olefin metathesis via Grubbs Catalyst technology. Offer services that include chemical process development and catalyst screening. |
MRIGlobal | Kansas City, MO | Services include custom synthesis, GLP or non-GMP APIs & intermediate synthesis (up to 1 kg), metabolite/impurity synthesis, and radiolabeled chemistry. |
Nanosyn | Santa Clara, CA | Provide services that include synthetic, medicinal, and process chemistry. |
New England Discovery Partners | Branford, CT | A CRO that specializes in synthetic and medicinal chemistry. Use structure-based drug design (x-ray crystallography and molecular modeling) whenever possible. |
Norac Pharma | Azusa, CA | Focus on process development and cGMP manufacture of APIs (up to multiple tons). Capabilities include controlled substances and potent compounds. |
Novasep | Boothwyn, PA | A CMO that develops and manufactures Intermediates, APIs, and HPAPIs at all production scales. Capabilities include cytotoxics and ADCs. Also offer preparative purification services. |
Organix, Inc | Woburn, MA | A CRO that offers organic and medicinal chemistry services. |
Patheon API Services | Florence, SC | A CDMO that offers services including the development and manufacture of small molecule APIs and finished drug products on all production scales. Have facilities in North America and Europe. |
PCI Synthesis | Newburyport, MA | Provides API services ranging from small-scale non-GMP (grams to kilograms) to cGMP manufacturing (kilograms to metric tons). Also have the capability to produce cGMP polymers (kilograms to metric tons). |
Peptides International | Louisville, KY | Provide custom peptide synthesis ranging from innovative resins to complex custom peptide synthesis. Also offer custom organic synthesis (from milligrams to hundreds of grams). |
Pfizer CentreOne | Kalamazoo, MI | Provide API services that focus on 1) custom small-molecule API synthesis 2) small-molecule steroid and hormone intermediates and APIs. Capabilities include high-potency APIs (HPAPIs). |
Pharmacore | High Point, NC | Offer services that include custom organic synthesis, process development, and cGMP manufacturing of intermediates and APIs (grams to hundreds of kilograms). |
Pharmagra | Brevard, NC | Provide services that include medicinal chemistry support, process development/scale-up, and low volume API production (kilogram quantities). |
PolyOrg, Inc | Leominster, MA | Services include contract research, custom synthesis, and process development. Capabilities include multi-kilogram synthesis, solid phase synthesis, and stable labeled isotope synthesis. |
Polysciences, Inc | Warrington, PA | Provide custom synthesis and cGMP contract manufacturing services (up to thousands of kilograms). Capabilities include monomers, polymers, and specialty chemicals. |
Ricerca | Concord, OH | Offer services including small scale synthesis, process chemistry, and cGMP manufacturing of APIs. Includes radiochemistry synthesis (non-GMP and cGMP). |
Rieke Metals | Lincoln, NE | Offer custom synthesis services (grams to kilograms). Have expertise in organometallic chemistry, organozinc reagents, Grignard reagents, fine chemicals, and semiconducting polymers. |
RTI International | Research Triangle, NC | Provide medicinal chemistry services (hit-to-lead and lead optimization). Also specialize in the custom synthesis of radio-labeled and mass-labeled compounds. |
Sigma Aldrich | -- | Provide a wide range of services that include developing & manufacturing key intermediates, APIs, HPAPIs, ADCs, and generics. |
Silar and MPD Chemicals Co | Wilmington, NC | Offer custom synthesis services ranging from R&D scale (mg's) to full metric ton quantities. Areas of expertise include complex organic synthesis, unique monomers, polymer development, and organosilicon chemistries. |
Southern Research Institute | Birmingham, AL | Offer academic and industrial collaboration services that include medicinal chemistry and drug development. |
Strem | Newburyport, MA | Provide custom synthesis, process development, and cGMP manufacturing of APIs (kilo-lab facility). |
SynChem, Inc | Chicago, IL | A CRO that specializes in organic synthesis, medicinal chemistry, process development, and CMC services under cGMP conditions. Operations in US and China. |
TCI America | Eugene, OR | Offer custom synthesis (milligrams to tons). |
Vertellus | Zeeland, MI | Provide custom manufacturing services. Areas of technical expertise include high-pressure catalytic hydrogenation, quaternization reactions, and chiral resolution. |
WeylChem | Elgin, SC | Provide multi-step custom and toll manufacturing. Core technologies include Friedel-Crafts, Grignard chemistry, Halogen exchange, Halogenation, and Ullman coupling. |
Wilmington PharmaTech | Newark, DE | Provide services that include medicinal chemistry, process research, non-GMP manufacturing (kg to metric tons), and cGMP synthesis of intermediates and APIs (up to 40 kg). Operations in US and China. |