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The 2023 PharmaVoice 100
This year’s honorees are influential and devoted leaders lifting the pillars of the industry to new heights.
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Sponsored by AstellasFor Astellas’ CMO, accelerating innovation means working at the edge of your comfort zone
Scientific discovery through new, breakthrough modalities is essential to solve current and future global health challenges – but the path is not easy nor well-defined.
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Q&AAs the opioid crisis seethes, a long-lasting treatment could offer new ammunition
Launched this month, Brixadi from Braeburn gives patients a new tool to overcome addiction.
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PBMs, PhRMA trade blame over drug costs in House hearing
Pharmacy benefit manager lobby PCMA and drugmaker lobby PhRMA pointed fingers over problems in the prescription supply chain during the House committee's second PBM hearing on Tuesday.
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Endangered horseshoe crabs could lead the charge in pharma’s animal-free future
An effort to spare the species from blood collection is one of many ways the industry is turning away from animals for R&D.
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Moderna’s bold five-year plan reflects Big Pharma tradition of ‘Will they deliver?’
Forecasts from the biggest pharma companies follow a pattern of thinking big and manifesting the desired outcome.
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O.G. Ice-T teams up with Sanofi in horror-themed flu vax ad
The French pharma’s latest vaccine campaign aims to raise awareness about the flu’s complications for marginalized groups.
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Q&AIn the renal space, innovation could tackle health disparities. But the system doesn’t reward it.
Reimbursement challenges have created barriers for new dialysis products, according to the chief commercial officer of CorMedix.
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Catching up with 2022 PharmaVoice 100 honorees
Tapping into our growing community for expertise and inspiration.
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A healthcare paradox: Drugs are too expensive but ‘easy’ to afford, Americans say
A new poll shows that Americans generally support several key IRA provisions, including Medicare price negotiations.
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A tale of two biotechs — 2seventy, Regeneron announce C-suite shakeups
The biotech’s chief financial officer Robert Landry is retiring in February.
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Ex-Sanofi executive Sibold joins Madrigal as new CEO
Bill Sibold has led Sanofi's specialty care business unit for the past six years. He replaces Paul Friedman as head of the NASH drug developer.
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Biotech SpotlightImmuneering takes aim at cancer’s ‘superhighway’
After dropping its neuroscience program earlier this year, the clinical-stage oncology company is doubling down on a candidate targeting the MAPK pathway.
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In advocates’ ongoing push for superbug funding, ‘$6 billion is nothing’
The PASTEUR Act is likely heading for another legislative blow, but advocates say they see a future for the mechanism to fund the battle against antimicrobial resistance.
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Profile‘Not all rainbows and unicorns’ — a former CEO dishes on his rocky biotech ride
Armon Sharei took his startup SQZ from a graduate project at MIT to a Big Pharma partnership worth $1B+. Despite the company’s stumbles, Sharei’s enthusiasm for biotech’s future remains.
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Pharma faces a slew of leadership shakeups
Biogen, Sanofi, Bristol Myers Squibb and more have all recently announced major executive changes.
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ProfileWhy this scientist left Janssen to help ‘revolutionize’ small molecule drug discovery
Murray McKinnon, CSO of Empress Therapeutics, believes its drug discovery platform holds the key to treating and detecting many diseases.
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Hope sputters for emerging anti-TIGIT drug class
Leaked data for Roche’s immunotherapy appeared positive, but some experts aren’t convinced it’ll make an impact for cancer patients.
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A startup’s psychedelic delivery tech is grabbing attention. Will pharma listen?
Psycheceutical is developing a back-of-the-neck topical treatment for ketamine but believes the delivery route holds promise for far more drugs.
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Roz Brewer announces sudden departure as CEO of Walgreens
The exec who set out to overhaul the long-time pharmacy giant offered few details on why she's stepping down.
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Lawmakers are already gunning for more dramatic drug pricing reforms
Medicare just announced its first-ever drug price negotiations and legislators are quickly pushing to broaden the program.
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Finding the right flu vaccine is hard. Getting people to take it is harder.
Experts have determined the strains of this year’s flu season — now the question is whether people are too fatigued by the pandemic to be immunized.
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Medicare named the first 10 drugs up for negotiation. Now what?
The list of blockbuster cardiovascular, diabetes and cancer drugs gives the industry a window into how regulators are approaching price negotiations.
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5 of the best places to work in pharma, according to employees
Work-life balance is one major common denominator among the top-ranked pharma employers on Glassdoor.
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Q&A // Biotech Spotlight‘We need to do better:’ A biotech CEO on standing apart from the crowd
The CEO of Cullinan Oncology is taking a small biotech to the next step and believes the temporary financial barriers are smaller than scientific progress.
