Tagged with Sanofi

Global Speaking exclusively to PharmaBoardroom, Sanofi Genzyme Executive VP Bill Sibold outlines Sanofi’s strategy for its specialty care unit, the wealth of potential breakthrough assets in its pipeline, product launch strategies, and the post-COVID industry of tomorrow.   Since I joined in 2011, it feels as if my time with Sanofi…

France French pharma giant Sanofi is pivoting its focus to invest more heavily in vaccines with a plan to invest USD 679 million in vaccine manufacturing operations in the next two years. This announcement came shortly after news of further rounds of layoffs of research staff working on cardiovascular diseases and…

Vaccines Vaccines are back on top of the pharma priority list as companies race against the clock to develop the first effective COVID-19 vaccine. Below we present the top 10 pharma companies producing vaccines globally, based on revenues from 2017 and projected revenues from 2024. GSK leads the pack with over…

France David Loew, formerly executive vice president of Sanofi Pasteur, Sanofi’s vaccines division, was appointed CEO of fellow French firm Ipsen on the 28th May 2020, effective 1st July.   Loew, who spoke to PharmaBoardroom in January 2019 while in position at Sanofi Pasteur, is taking the helm from Aymeric Le…

Coronavirus In a recent interview with Financial Times, Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson set out to clarify some recent comments that the US would get priority access to a COVID-19 vaccine. He explained the firm’s collaboration with US research group BARDA and underscored that Sanofi is committed to bringing vaccines to all…

Coronavirus In an interview with Financial Times correspondent Leila Abboud at the FT Global Boardroom video conference on the 14th of May, Paul Hudson, CEO of French pharma firm Sanofi underscored the joint efforts between his company and GSK in hopes of bringing a viable Covid-19 vaccine to market more quickly.…

Mexico A compilation of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the Mexican pharmaceutical market based on IQVIA data from February MAT 2020. Four of the top ten companies are Mexican: PISA, Sanfer, Senosiain and Siegfried Rhein.   1. Sanofi Global CEO: Paul Hudson Country Chair: Fernando Sampaio Sanofi has had a…

Coronavirus The world’s two leading vaccine producers, GSK of the UK and France’s Sanofi, last week announced that they are working together to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19); an unprecedented agreement that shows the scale of the challenge facing the global biopharmaceutical industry and possibly provides the world’s…

Romania Despite the challenging characteristics of the Romanian market, with a large population of nearly 20 million people and significant unmet medical needs, the country will undoubtedly continue to be strategic to multinationals in the region. This also means a consistent cycling of general managers, whether they are dispatched to the…

Romania Quite unfortunately, Romania has some of the highest infant mortality and maternal mortality rates in Europe, and even more worrying, the downward trend seems to be continuing, most notably with significant measles outbreaks occurring in the country every year since 2016. Part of this distressing phenomenon relates to a growing…

Coronavirus The CEOs and top executives, David Ricks, chairman and CEO, Eli Lilly & Co and IFPMA president, Severin Schwan, CEO, Roche, Paul Stoffels, chief scientific officer, Johnson & Johnson, David Loew, executive VP, Sanofi Pasteur and Rajeev Venkayya, president, Global Vaccines Business Unit, Takeda took part in a virtual press…

Czech Republic Pharma industry stakeholders are generally quick to suggest that the Czech Republic is one of the most over-regulated markets in Europe, with new or innovative therapies facing significant delays before being able to enter the market.   While the timelines are still outside the defined framework, the situation is much…