USA Illumina’s newly appointed CEO, Jacob Thaysen, will take the reins of the gene sequencing giant at the end of September. Falling heir to the difficulties that have plagued the company since its botched acquisition of cancer blood test maker Grail, Thaysen will have to confront the company’s legal tangles with…
USA Biotech and life sciences companies have a habit of clustering together, creating shared ecosystems to drive innovation. For going on 12 years Johnson & Johnson Innovation (JLABS), has been supporting this strength in numbers philosophy, finding, funding and incubating promising startups under a scheme of open innovation in its shared…
Global Amgen has forged a solid position as one of the world’s largest independent biotechnology companies. With a market capitalisation of some USD 130 billion and 27 approved medicines, the US-based firm has come a long way from its original biotech upstart status in 1980. Nonetheless, Amgen has faced obstacles in…
USA With office occupation rates on the slide and the life sciences industry’s demand for lab space on the rise, the repurposing of existing offices into medical laboratories has become an important new asset class, writes Liz Chen, a lab planner at HGA Life Science + Advanced Technology Group’s San Diego…
India A roundup of some of the top stories from the Indian pharma industry including the suspension of the National Medical Commission’s (NMC) guidelines making the prescription of generic drugs mandatory; the government’s revision of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) in light of deaths linked to Indian-made cough syrups; Torrent Pharma’s new…
UK The latest news from UK healthcare and life sciences, including the safety review of Novo Nordisk’s GLP-1 receptor agonists; VaxEquity’s grant to scale up RNA vaccine manufacturing; AstraZeneca/Quell Therapeutics cell therapy agreement and GSK’s acquisition of Bellus Health. More evidence needed on Lilly’s weight loss drug, UK watchdog says…
China At a time when the country’s economy has fallen into a slump with the currency sinking to its lowest level in 16 years, Chinese giant Fosun Pharma continues to agressively advance its activities in everything from pharmaceuticals to medical devices and diagnosis to healthcare services. Through its multiple subsidiaries, as…
Global The Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM) brands itself as the leading international advocacy organization championing the benefits of engineered cell therapies and genetic medicines for patients, healthcare systems, and society. ARM’s latest sector snapshot details the cell and gene therapy approvals list for 2022, as well as the number of…
Global Following the appointment of new boards at the US innovative pharma industry body PhRMA, and its European counterpart EFPIA, it is global group the IFPMA’s turn to reveal a new CEO leadership team, with appointees from Pfizer, Roche and Daiichi Sankyo. As the industry’s biggest global trade group that…
Global Brendan Shaw examines the protracted efforts of global stakeholders to come together around a global pandemic treaty and outlines the benefits of constructive engagement on the part of the pharmaceutical industry to find new solutions, policy approaches and business models moving forward. You never want a serious crisis to…
USA Founded in 1980 “at the dawn of a biotechnology revolution,” Amgen has held its ground throughout its more than 40-year history with innovative approaches to drug discovery that have led to a number of breakthrough therapies. Chairman and CEO Bob Bradway recently spoke to the Money Maze podcast about the…
USA David H. Crean, Ph.D., Managing Partner at Cardiff Advisory, provides his insights on the potential impact of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s antitrust policies on biopharmaceutical mergers and acquisitions. Crean expects to see a continuation of 2023’s strong start to M&A and questions whether the FTC’s newly-aggressive approach will…
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