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Sep
2019
Tag: business model
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Aug
2019
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The Rise of the Chief Digital Officer in Pharma Companies
Chief Digital Officer (CDO) is the latest title to become a standard within the pharmaceutical company C-suite, with Takeda, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Merck, Sanofi and others all making such appointments in recent years. As we’ve written before, this addition to the pharma senior management team reflects the growing importance of digital to pharma, which encompasses...
4
Sep
2018
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The Drug Pricing Blueprint — and Audience Reactions
In May of this year, the Trump White House issued its “Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices” in response to the Administration’s views that excessively high drug prices “burdening the American people” were in part caused by “foreign freeloading” and a system currently rigged “to reward list price increases.” The policy document, which was open...
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Feb
2018
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Reinventing Medical Affairs to the Benefit of All
The concept of patient-centric drug development has been a frequent topic of discussion in recent years. Increasingly, companies have moved to adopt practices that create more active, networked relationships and interactions between physicians, patients, advocates and drug developers. The aim of such practices is to better respond to patient and physician needs and concerns, while...
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Feb
2018
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Enter the Giants: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and J.P. Morgan Take on Healthcare
Recent months have seen a series of corporate actions aimed at reconfiguring healthcare in the United States, beginning with drug store giant CVS’s bid in December 2017 to purchase Aetna, one of the country’s biggest insurers, for about $69 billion. This was followed on January 24 by Apple’s push into electronic healthcare records through an...
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Jul
2017
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CRISPR Reaches the Clinic
Sometime mid-month, the first clinical trial employing CRISPR gene editing technology within the human body will initiate in China, at Sun-Yat Sen University. Scientists there will seek to use CRISPR and TALEN, another gene editing method, to treat persistent HPV infection and disable the tumor growth mechanism in infected cells. In a non-invasive approach, scientists...
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Jun
2017
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Towards a Universal Immuno-oncology Assay Predictive of Drug Response
We have written frequently about the growing importance of biomarkers and how diagnostics will increasingly play a dominant role in the way that therapeutics are prescribed and reimbursed. Immuno-oncology (IO) treatments in particular are expected to benefit from the availability of truly predictive biomarkers, based on the dramatic treatment gains they have achieved for a...
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Jun
2017
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Roche Gains Important MS Approval — and Takes Unprecedented Pricing Steps
On March 29, the US Food and Drug Administration approved Roche’s Ocrevus (ocrelizumab) for the treatment of either relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS), or primary progressive MS (PPMS). The approval was particularly noteworthy as Ocrevus is the first therapeutic approved for the treatment of PPMS, a form of the disease that accounts for 10-15% of MS...
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Mar
2016
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Launch or License: Some Points to Consider, When You’re Considering Your First European Launch
For many young biotech and pharma companies, the decision about how to take their first drug to Europe has been simple: just license the European marketing rights to a company that already is well established there, and collect milestone payments and a stream of royalties. For an inexperienced company, dealing with the European regulatory and...
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Mar
2016