Nothing could be further from the truth than an assumption held by many Westerners that nothing changes in Japan, writes long time pharma industry watcher P Reed Maurer, who is president of International Alliances Limited. 12 January 2017
Chronic therapies, especially anti-diabetic and cardiac care are helping the Indian pharmaceutical market notch up healthy growth figures, reports The Pharma Letter’s India correspondent. 11 January 2017
In an expert view piece, Todd Feaster, clinical program manager for dementia with leading clinical trial technology and specialty services provider Bracket, employs his Alzheimer’s disease expertise to comment on the trial environment in this most challenging therapeutic area. 11 January 2017
Dr Nicola Davies explores the market access steps taken by companies such as Takeda to make medicines available and affordable for high priority patient populations. 10 January 2017
2017 has kicked off with the first multi-billion dollar acquisition deal announced in the biopharma sector, with US biotech firm Ariad Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ARIA) agreeing to a bid from Japan’s largest drugmaker. 9 January 2017
Friday saw the launch of a new US biotech company, Vir Biotechnology, which is focussed developing cures, treatments and preventions for challenging infectious diseases, with former Biogen chief executive George Scangos heading a team of scientific and industry leaders. 9 January 2017
3SBio announced today that Zhenping Zhu will join the Chinese biotech firm as president of research & development and chief scientific officer. 9 January 2017
Lan Huang is no stranger to awards, from being named Soroptimist International’s international-level Women’s Opportunity Award in 1997 alongside her biophysical chemistry PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, to picking up China’s Thousand Talent Innovator prize in 2009. 9 January 2017
The new man at the helm of Eli Lilly has started off his time as the US pharma major’s chief executive by announcing a series of organizational and leadership structure changes. 6 January 2017
David-Alexandre “DA” Gros has joined Neurocrine Biosciences as president and chief operating officer, the American biotech group announced today. 6 January 2017
Biotech firm Sobi have announced the recruitment of Armin Reininger as senior vice president and head of global medical and scientific affairs. 5 January 2017
An inter partes review (IPR) is usually an unpleasant business for a patent owner, writes Greg DeLassus, a principal at international intellectual property (IP) firm Harness Dickey, in an expert view piece for The Pharma Letter. 4 January 2017
US-based biotech firm Gilead has recruited Alessandro Riva as senior vice president of hematology and oncology. Dr Riva helped develop more than 20 cancer compounds as head of oncology at Swiss giant Novartis, including both targeted and immune-oncology treatments. 4 January 2017
Our quarterly Special Report from experts at QuintilesIMS provides scientific and practical insights on Post Authorization Safety Studies based on the first three years since implementation of the new European Union legislation, offering forecasts for likely advances in 2017. 29 December 2016
Sweeping changes are afoot at India's Health Ministry to encourage innovation in the pharmaceutical sector and to ensure speedier approvals for conducting medical research, reports The Pharma Letter's India correspondent. 21 December 2016
News that AstraZeneca was losing the experienced head of one its focus areas caused a slight share price wobble on Monday – but the company is confident that his shoes will be ably filled. 21 December 2016
In an expert view piece, Michael Jewell, healthcare partner at Cavendish Corporate Finance, explains why we can expect significant M&A activity in the pharma, health care and biotech sectors to shape 2017. 21 December 2016
What more does pharma and biotech know now about the implications of Brexit six months after the UK population voted to leave the European Union? 19 December 2016
Oligonucleotide therapeutics are rapidly emerging as a promising class of drugs capable of addressing a variety of genetic and complex diseases by targeting RNA sequences.1 16 September 2024
The protection of intellectual property (IP) rights of foreign pharmaceutical companies in Russia remains complex situation, according to recent statements by Konstantin Panurovsky, legal director of AstraZeneca’s Russian subsidiary, reports The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent. 13 September 2024
The Russian Ministry of Health wants to speed registration of drugs that are not localized in the Russian Federation at the time of the application submitted by domestic pharmaceutical companies, explaining such changes by "unpredictable geopolitical situation," reports The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent. 12 September 2024
NewCo, a relatively new business model that involves a joint venture (JV) between a biotech and a group of investors to bring the biotech’s promising assets to the global market, is gaining popularity among Chinese biotechs, who traditionally rely on out-licensing deals to capitalize assets, s 11 September 2024
The upcoming European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2024 should provide a reminder—if it were needed—of the pace of innovation in the development of new medicines for cancer. 10 September 2024
A significant drop has been noticed in the prices of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), bringing much-needed relief to the pharmaceutical industry and potentially translating to lower drug costs for consumers. 9 September 2024
Amid an explosion in investment and development milestones seen over the past decade, the age of radiopharmaceuticals as both diagnostics and as therapeutics is very much arriving. 5 September 2024
German pharma major Bayer has filed a lawsuit against the Russian drugmaker Promomed to protect the patent rights for Xarelto (rivaroxaban), its treatment for stroke prevention which is the best-selling drug in the Russian market at present, The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent reports. 2 September 2024
In a major crackdown, the Indian government has imposed an immediate ban on 156 fixed-dose combination (FDC) drugs, including commonly used antibiotics, pain relievers,and multivitamins. 27 August 2024
Russia plans to create conditions for a significant increase of domestic production of anti-Rhesus immunoglobulin drugs after a sharp decrease of their imports to the local market this year, reports The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent. 22 August 2024
Accord Healthcare might not be as well-known as certain preeminent pharma corporations in the UK and Europe, but you would struggle to find any company making a greater contribution to the production and supply of medicines across the continent. 14 August 2024
The shortage of drugs in Russia is deepening, and is currently being observed in almost 70 regions throughout the country and forcing the local state to consider ways to resume stable supplies to local market, reports The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent. 13 August 2024
US biotech major Biogen is disputing the launch of a Russian generic of Spinraza (nusinersen), a drug, which is used to treat spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), reports The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent. 7 August 2024
CytoReason’s $80 million venture round may not have been the biggest in July, but it is one of a growing number of investor bets on AI powered drug discovery this year. 7 August 2024
Domestic drugs and foreign drugs, the production of which is localized in Russia, will be given a priority when included in the list of vital and essential drugs (VED) and expensive drugs, according to a recent resolution signed by the Russian government, The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent reports. 1 August 2024