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J.P. Morgan Notebook Day 2: Bourla Feels Pfizer's Underappreciated, GSK Prepares For Myeloma First And More

 
• By Mandy Jackson, Andrew McConaghie, and Jessica Merrill

Daily round-up from the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco: GSK's first-in-class oncology opportunity, Pfizer's Bourla on underappreciated pipeline, AstraZeneca's Enhertu pricing, Amgen's genomics push, Lilly filters through deals and Medicxi's de Rubertis teases big pharma CEOs about M&A. 

Alamo Square, San Fransisco, CA
Highlights from Day 2 at J.P. Morgan. • Source: Shutterstock

Pfizer Inc. CEO Albert Bourla is one year into the job and tried to impress upon J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference attendees at a fireside chat in the Grand Ballroom at San Francisco's Westin St. Francis how much the company's innovative R&D business has changed. Pfizer is set to update investors on 2019 financials and 2020 forecasts on 28 January, but Bourla said there is a lot of upside in the company's longer-range pipeline that Wall Street analyst forecasts aren't taking into account.

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