Acquisitions of early-stage assets, biotech platforms and capabilities like AI are the way to faster growth for pharma companies, as Accenture’s Petra Jantzer told In Vivo. However, changing the focus of M&A away from conventional late-stage assets requires significant shifts in corporate and R&D culture.
Earlier in 2022, Accenture experts pored over the details of more than 300 mergers and acquisitions made by the 30 top biopharma companies between 2010 and 2021. They characterized the nature of those deals and found that 34% of all M&A focused on bolt-on, late-stage asset acquisitions.
But these, the experts observed, are “trending towards unsustainable,” as average takeout premiums for M&A deals valued at over $500m...
Biotech companies are pursuing diverse AI strategies beyond expensive custom data generation: foundation model fine-tuning, data-efficient computational methods and targeted proprietary datasets. In Vivo takes a look at some examples.
A look at Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and other companies' late-stage clinical studies of GLP-1 drugs in indications ranging from neurodegeneration to oncology, and alcoholic liver disease to autoimmune conditions.
Metsera CEO Whit Bernard applies an unconventional leadership philosophy to develop next-generation obesity therapeutics, including monthly GLP-1 injections and oral peptides.
A Q&A with DeAnn Smith, partner and co-chair of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Proceedings Practice Group at law firm Foley Hoag.
Jana Grieb, European regulatory and market access legal expert at McDermott Will & Emery, explains why the healthtech and pharma industries are warming to the new EU health commissioner as he faces calls to make the MDR more “user friendly.”
While big pharma pours billions into creating new anti-aging molecules, a Belgian startup has taken a different path: combining existing safe drugs with AI precision. The early results suggest it might be onto something revolutionary.
Bristol Myers Squibb executive Doxie Jordan discusses his path to global commercial leadership and the principles guiding pharmaceutical market strategy
