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    PharmaVoice 100

    2024 PharmaVoice 100s: Trailblazers

    Industry leaders charting new paths in science and business. 

    By Oct. 16, 2024
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    Regeneron takes the long-haul approach to oncology, stumbles and all

    Although Regeneron has been playing catch-up in the oncology field for years, a pipeline built on next-wave promises could push the boundaries.

    By Oct. 10, 2024
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    Trendline

    Clinical trial diversity

    As pharma wises up to the fact that the current playbook for improving clinical trial diversity has yet to make a meaningful impact, the quest is on to refine that approach.

    By PharmaVoice staff
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    Q&A

    California is a life sciences leader. Joe Panetta has been one of its most vocal advocates.

    The president and CEO of Biocom California discusses the state’s strengths and weaknesses, current and emerging hubs, and the industry’s future.

    By Alexandra Pecci • Oct. 1, 2024
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    Behind the rise of BMS’ Cobenfy, the first new schizophrenia drug in decades

    The FDA OK for KarXT, now known as Cobenfy, demonstrates Bristol Myers Squibb’s dealmaking prowess and marks a turning point for a new generation of treatments.

    By Kelly Bilodeau • Sept. 26, 2024
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    Q&A

    Roivant’s magic trick: Finding the ‘weird-shaped’ pieces around Big Pharma’s cookie cutters

    Roivant CEO Matt Gline leads the company on a unique path by placing bets on misfit drugs and technologies — and it’s working.

    By Sept. 26, 2024
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    Q&A // First 90 Days

    Want better cancer treatments? Make biopharma more like Silicon Valley

    Alicia Zhou brings startup bona fides to the nonprofit Cancer Research Institute to promote defragmentation of the cancer research effort.

    By Sept. 24, 2024
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    At J&J, oncology R&D meets commercial strategy in a quest for new standards of care

    The disparate teams of research and commercial at J&J work closely together from the get-go.

    By Sept. 19, 2024
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    Q&A

    How Lilly’s sustainability goals come face to face with massive growth

    Eli Lilly’s head of ESG is maintaining a focus on sustainability even as the company’s expansion plans in weight loss drive a larger footprint and more social scrutiny.

    By Sept. 12, 2024
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    Big Pharma is often media shy. Merck’s chief comms officer is hoping to change that.

    Cristal Downing is helping Merck & Co. buck pharma’s zipped-lip status quo and usher in a “new era” of openness, transparency and “overt communication.”

    By Alexandra Pecci • Sept. 5, 2024
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    Their Alzheimer’s treatment worked — but shares fell anyway

    Cognition Therapeutics touted what the C-suite saw as a promising mid-stage study in Alzheimer’s, but investors read a different story.

    By Aug. 29, 2024
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    Q&A // First 90 Days

    With a new oncology R&D head, Takeda revamps its strategy

    The company is using a “three-by-four” approach to sharpen its cancer R&D aims.

    By Alexandra Pecci • Aug. 27, 2024
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    BioMarin taps Amgen, Roche vets in executive reshuffle

    Greg Friberg and James Sabry will take over, respectively, as heads of R&D and business development, less than a year after BioMarin named a new CEO.

    By Jacob Bell • Aug. 22, 2024
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    Lessons from COVID: Tuskegee impacts still erode trust in healthcare, but hope shines through

    A long-time leader in public health and outreach to people of color, Dr. Reed Tuckson offers the lessons he learned from the COVID pandemic and how pharma can better serve those communities.

    By Aug. 15, 2024
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    Q&A // Biotech Spotlight

    A biotech’s difficult journey to bring a new kind of Parkinson’s drug to patients

    A series of executive turnovers at Gain Therapeutics this year precedes important early-stage Parkinson’s results that could change how the disease is treated.

    By Aug. 13, 2024
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    Pharma execs react to final drug price negotiations with Medicare

    Here’s what the leaders of the companies with the 10 drugs in the first wave of price negotiations with Medicare said about how the new prices will impact their portfolio.

    By Aug. 9, 2024
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    Jim Wilson, prominent gene therapy researcher, to depart UPenn

    Wilson, who founded UPenn’s gene therapy program three decades ago, will step down to start two new spinouts, Gemma Bio and Franklin Biolabs.

    By Ned Pagliarulo • Aug. 5, 2024
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    Opinion

    What pharma has learned from AI

    As AI tools move from hype to a daily reality at pharma companies, here are the insights users are gaining.

    By Aug. 2, 2024
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    Read to lead: 6 books pharma execs swear by

    From an epic, alternative reality fantasy to a ‘biography of cancer,’ these six reads have stuck with pharma execs as they navigate how to lead.

    By Alexandra Pecci • Aug. 1, 2024
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    Q&A

    In biotech’s new market normal, here’s what’s catching this investor’s eye

    A VC investor shares how the market is recovering, which kinds of companies he’s hunting for and where he’d love to see more innovation.

    By July 25, 2024
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    Where Kamala Harris stands on three key pharma issues

    The presumptive Democratic nominee has a long history of taking on pharma over drug prices and supporting women’s healthcare access.

    By July 24, 2024
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    Gilead’s CMO to depart next year

    Merdad Parsey joined Gilead as its chief medical officer in 2019 and has helped lead the company’s expansion into oncology, with mixed success.

    By Ned Pagliarulo • July 19, 2024
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    Gilead eyes ‘ending the HIV epidemic’ via incremental progress

    With a long elusive HIV cure ever on the horizon, Gilead’s latest long-acting PrEP study shows that every step counts.

    By July 18, 2024
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    Q&A

    Amylyx’s CEOs on their ALS setback and quest to revamp the pipeline

    Co-CEOs Josh Cohen and Justin Klee reflect on what they learned from Relyvrio’s failure and how they’re carrying those lessons forward with other drugs.

    By July 17, 2024
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    Pfizer research chief Dolsten to step down, with company at a crossroads

    The company has begun searching for a successor to Dolsten, who oversaw more than 35 drug and vaccine approvals alongside notable setbacks during his time as Pfizer’s top scientist.

    By Ben Fidler • July 10, 2024
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    In the rapidly shrinking COVID market, this company still sees opportunity

    GeoVax is developing a next-gen COVID vaccine targeting a population that’s so far been elusive: immunocompromised patients.

    By Alexandra Pecci • July 3, 2024