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Ionis Finds Its Footing Ahead Of Its First Big Commercial Step

CEO Brett Monia Took The Helm At Start Of Transition

 
• By Mandy Jackson

Ionis will launch its first commercial product through a co-commercialization agreement with AstraZeneca early next year, in preparation for its first wholly-owned drug launches soon to follow.

Brett Monia, Ionis CEO
CEO Brett Monia has overseen big strategic shifts at Ionis • Source: Ionis

Three years into his tenure and with the COVID-19 pandemic behind him, Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. CEO Brett Monia and the organization he helms have taken solid steps from being a platform technology company that out-licenses its drugs to becoming a fully integrated biotechnology company (FIBCO) that sells its own products.

Monia took over the CEO role from long-time Ionis chief executive Stanley Crooke at the start of 2020, when the company unveiled its new strategy to seek partners for fewer of its antisense drug candidates and maintain global rights to more of its products instead

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