Best of the Blog: IN VIVO, June 2008

In May, Windhover's editorial staff posted 35 articles to the blog, covering biopharma, device and diagnostics R&D, business development, regulatory and commercial news. Here are a few of our favorite posts that didn't make it into stories covered elsewhere in this month's magazine: Changing of the Change Agents: Exit Wyeth's Ruffolo, Enter Orbimed's Dolsten; Cimzia Launch: Nothing Simple About It; Lundbeck Thanks Myriad For the Memories; Takeda's Millions Buy a Lot of Beer.

Best of the Blog is a monthly column highlighting the best of our free online content at www.windhover.com/blog. In May, Windhover’s editorial staff posted 35 articles to the site, covering biopharma, device and diagnostics R&D, business development, regulatory and commercial news. Last month we took an in-depth look at the FDA advisory committee review of Cephalon’s Fentora, interviewed some FDA brass, and analyzed the month’s important deals, from Takeda’s spree to BMS’ string of pearls. Here are a few of our favorite blog posts for stories not covered elsewhere in this month’s IN VIVO.

(May 1.) We just heard the news that Bob Ruffolo, Wyeth’s R&D boss, is retiring.

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