Core Competencies

Genzyme Pharmaceuticals provides high-quality small molecule products, materials, and services such as Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and specialty fine chemicals through an integrated resource of custom manufacturing to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. As a business unit of Genzyme Corporation with a cGMP manufacturing facility in Liestal, Switzerland, our strong chemical expertise, combined with Genzyme’s renowned standards of quality, allows us to be a true custom manufacturing partner in a wide range of project areas. Among our unique core competencies is project and portfolio management.

Genzyme Pharmaceuticals’ core competencies within custom manufacturing center around, but are not limited to, the following:

Small molecules/APIs
Pharmaceuticals
Fine chemicals
Complex multistep chemistry

Amino acid derivatives and building blocks for peptide synthesis
Natural and non-natural amino acids
Pseudoproline dipeptide building blocks
Dmb protected dipeptide building blocks

Peptide synthesis
Solid phase, solution phase
Peptidomimetics, lipopeptides

Synthetic Phospholipids and other lipids
Hetero and homogeneous, conjugates, helper lipids, sphingolipids, cationic lipids, PEG’ylated derivatives, glycerol lipids

Polymers
Pharmaceutical applications that require moisture-sensitive handling

Carbohydrates