The efficiency program outlined by the German pharma in February will mean elimination of 500 Merck Serono staff in Switzerland, with another 750 employees being redeployed to Germany, China or the U.S.
A state-of-the-art biotechnology facility acquired in Merck KGAA’s $13 million buyout of Serono SA in 2006 will be shuttered and listed for sale as part of the German pharma’s ongoing transformation effort.
In an April 24 announcement, Merck KGAA, the parent company, outlined significant changes at its pharmaceutical and drug-development division
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Amid the wait for an action plan to apply AI tools to drug regulation at the national level in China, capital city Beijing has released its own vision of scenarios for the technology in the healthcare sector.
China has announced a raft of new measures to encourage innovative drug development across the product life cycle, including using insurance data to differentiate new therapies and applying commercial insurance to selected novel products.
FDA regulation was painted as an obstacle to US dominance in the cell and gene therapy space even as panelists at an agency event praised the Office of Therapeutic Products' track record under Nicole Verdun.
At this year’s DIA China meeting, the national regulator updated its policy focus areas for this year, including clinical trial data protection and pilot projects to shorten IND approval times.
A differentiated profit-sharing model to accelerate the use of AI in drug development using clinical and patient data is being proposed in South Korea, but the idea faces multiple practical challenges
Country recommends eights new drugs for approval, including six for rare diseases, and also announces macroeconomic policy the pharma industry says would enable some reimbursement prices to be raised.
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