GILYOS is a family-owned, contract service partner in the field of freeze drying (lyophilization) for the pharmaceutical and food industry. The company combines top-notch, innovative academic research with targeted and straight forward contract development services. GILYOS has a profound expert knowledgebase in the field of formulation design for pharmaceuticals and biologicals, physicochemical examination of materials, freeze-drying cycle development, process optimization and subsequent scale-up to manufacturing. The company uses cutting-edge analytical methods to fully characterize drug formulations (liquid and solid state), with special focus on predictability of product behavior during the process and long-term storage. One of our key-competences is implementation of process analytical technology (PAT) in freeze-drying and the establishment of Quality-by-Design (QbD) concepts.