Outlook 2022

Scrip takes a look back at the milestone events in the South Korean pharma and biotech industry in 2021 and ahead at what's in store for the coming year, which has kicked off with speculation around a major potential M&A deal.

The COVID-19 pandemic dealt a blow to Johnson & Johnson’s Vision Care business, but the company maintained its innovation program and kept customer engagement to the fore. It has started to see a return to positive contact lens buying trends, says Vision Care European business leaders Sandra Rasche and Lisa Ann Hill.

Medtech’s resilience and flexibility have been clear to see during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this forward-looking view for 2022, CEOs from some of the Top 50 global medtechs share their perspectives on the present and the future, from company and health care system standpoints.

Experts foresee the digital therapeutics market growing to $6bn-$9bn by 2025, driven in part by tech-empowered consumers and patients looking for solutions to better manage their own health and conditions. For medtechs, collaborations with software-driven start-ups will be key to harnessing personalized data and differentiating themselves in the marketplace.

Medtech’s resilience and flexibility have been clear to see during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this forward-looking view for 2022, CEOs from some of the Top 50 global medtechs share their perspectives on the present and the future, from company and health care system standpoints.    

The biopharma industry broke records again in 2021 with the amount of money raised for drug development. After a year of rapid growth, what will 2022 bring for market dynamics and R&D catalysts in biopharma?

The COVID-19 pandemic dealt a blow to Johnson & Johnson’s Vision Care business, but the company maintained its innovation program and kept customer engagement to the fore. It has started to see a return to positive contact lens buying trends, says Vision Care European business leaders Sandra Rasche and Lisa Ann Hill.

The EU research-based pharma industry is exploring partnerships to develop an app that would extract data from the new Clinical Trial Information System and convert it into lay format to guide patients interested in participating in studies.

As CEO Michael Goettler provides an update on the progress made by Viatris in its first year as a combined company, he also offers Generics Bulletin hints as to the detailed strategy that will be unveiled at the firm’s upcoming investor day and explains how biosimilars – including interchangeable Semglee (insulin glargine) – and complex generics are important components of the firm’s future growth plans.

New ‘Type D’ meetings will be added as part of PDUFA VII, one of a spate of changes under the next version of the user fee program that will begin in October 2022.