Leadership
Despite new challenges related to obesity drug insurance coverage in the US, MetaVia's CEO is confident in the company's novel contender, which unlike rival GLP-1 therapies doesn’t require dose titration.
But the French major is still keen on early-stage M&A.
The highlights of recent comments and insights from industry executives on the key issues covered in Scrip.
Pascal Soriot, CEO of AstraZeneca, joins Agilent Technologies' board, plus Zealand Pharma acquires chief development officer from UCB Biopharma.
The company has moved quickly to wind down operations after its anti-TIGIT pact with GSK collapsed.
Aurobindo is banking on launches of loss of exclusivity products and biosimilars to fuel sales in Europe as it awaits a US announcement on tariffs and predicts high single-digit growth overall during FY26 for now
CEO Matt Gline talked to Scrip in an interview about dealmaking and the road back to commercialization.
Ascentage will share at ASCO new clinical data on its Bcl-2 inhibitor lisaftoclax, part of the Chinese firm's novel pipeline, on which its CEO shared with Scrip plans and strategy, along with some views on the use of RWD in China.
McKinsey senior partner Vivek Pandit talks to Scrip about some of the intricacies underlying the key findings of a study on pharma’s workforce gender gap in India. Women’s representation starts low at entry level, peaks at senior manager positions and falls off again for C-suite roles, this found.
Zydus expects strong mirabegron sales in FY26 amid US litigation even as it builds a growth pillar in vaccines with a world-first, Gates Foundation-aided dual shigella-typhoid vaccine under development and others on the WHO prequalified list
Recent moves in the industry include new C-suite hires at Janux Therapeutics, BlueSphere Bio and Hansa Biopharma, plus Syndax Pharmaceuticals gets new chief medical officer from Bristol Myers Squibb.
The German company has big plans for the next five years or so. Scrip speaks to its chief medical officer Lykke Hinsch Gylvin about how it is using AI and other innovative approaches to make good on its ambitions.
Roche Pharmaceuticals’ area head, Asia Pacific, outlines how the Swiss group is helping nurture the wider ecosystem and setting itself up for a bigger play in the ophthalmology space by combining scientific expertise with regional insights.
A new IQVIA report highlights how the sector benefits the US through metrics like the economy, employment and health.
The company hopes the drug will become the standard of care rescue treatment in asthma.
Company surprises investors with Jørgensen's exit but insists its strategy will not change.
Recent moves in the industry include changes at the top at Akamis Bio, Innospera Pharma & Ispen, plus Astellas Korea appoints an ex-Novartis Korea executive.
The Danish firm's atopic dermatitis drug is holding its own despite strong competition from Sanofi/Regeneron’s Dupixent.
Vyepti revenues rise by nearly 70% in the first quarter.
As CEO Anderson backs high prices for innovative drugs in Europe