INTERVIEW: Clinuvel's Scenesse and the patient factor in drug assessments

Not many pharmaceutical executives would take credit for helping to steer the European Medicines Agency in a particular direction when it comes to assessing new innovative medicines. But that's what Philippe Wolgen, CEO of the Australian rare diseases company Clinuvel, claims to have achieved when he decided to seek EU approval for the ground-breaking phototoxicity drug Scenesse with the close involvement of patients and physicians.