Mandy reports on daily biopharma developments, writes feature stories and produces Scrip's Finance Watch column. She covers finance, start-ups, dealmaking, clinical trial results, quarterly earnings reports, commercial competition and corporate strategy. Mandy regularly interviews everyone from big pharma CEOs to biotech start-up founders, enhancing her expertise on industry trends and market dynamics. She also is interested in drug pricing and novel reimbursement strategies, new treatments in areas of true unmet need, diversity in the biopharma industry and novel approaches to drug development. She has been a business reporter since 2000, covering biopharma, biotech law and commercial real estate.
Latest from Mandy Jackson
Amgen's refusal to voluntarily withdraw the rare disease treatment could force the FDA to employ its formal process to remove it from the market.
Investors appeared not to be bothered by Amgen’s Q4 product updates, including the US FDA’s request to pull rare disease drug Tavneos from the market and discontinuation of Phase III bemarituzumab.
Bristol Myers Squibb execs David Elkins and Adam Lenkowsky spoke with Scrip about the company’s efforts to grow new products and advance novel drugs before Opdivo and Eliquis lose exclusivity in 2028.
Public Company Edition: Cormorant’s special purpose acquisition corporation, Helix Acquisition III, went public to pursue health care and related opportunities, but at least four biopharma firms are seeking $150m-plus IPOs and the follow-on market is booming.
Scrip spoke with Novo’s SVPs for global research and global business development, Jacob Petersen and Tamara Darsow, about dealmaking and R&D priorities after the company streamlined to focus more intensely on obesity and diabetes.
Revenue from Sun Pharma’s innovative medicines business overtook its generics business for the first time ever in Q2 of fiscal year 2026 and North American CEO Richard Ascroft is focused on maintaining the growth momentum.