Wegovy In The Wings, Novo Outlines Potential, Sizes Up Perceptions In India

Wegovy In The Wings, Novo Outlines Potential, Sizes Up Perceptions In India

 

Novo Nordisk India MD talks to Scrip about what to expect when Wegovy arrives in India and the local trajectory of Rybelsus. The Danish group also shared findings of a study around obesity.

Executives On The Move: Five CEOs And Four New CFOs Among This Week’s Changes

Executives On The Move: Five CEOs And Four New CFOs Among This Week’s Changes

 
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Recent moves in the industry include C-suite changes at Coya Therapeutics, Kancera and Verrica Pharmaceuticals, which acquires chief financial officer from Aceragen.

Lazertinib’s US Approval A Catalyst For Oscotec’s Growth

Lazertinib’s US Approval A Catalyst For Oscotec’s Growth

 
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Oscotec co-CEO Taeyoung Yoon highlights anti-resistance and anti-tau therapies as the Korean bioventure’s next possible blockbuster candidates after the landmark US approval of lazertinib for lung cancer.

Executives On The Move: Biogen Gets New Chief Medical Officer From BMS

Executives On The Move: Biogen Gets New Chief Medical Officer From BMS

 
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Recent moves in the industry include changes at the top at Fennec Pharmaceuticals, plus Opthea Acquires Chief Financial Officer From Amarin, and Disc Medicine gets a new chief technical officer.


Pfizer’s Bourla Defends Strategy In The Wake Of Starboard’s Activist Investment

Pfizer’s Bourla Defends Strategy In The Wake Of Starboard’s Activist Investment

 

CEO Albert Bourla said Starboard Value’s push for change at Pfizer is coming 15 months late as the company is already executing a five-point plan to cut costs and pivot on strategy.

As Novo Spars Over Semaglutide Capacity, Strides To Arm GLP-1 Generics Cos Ahead Of LoEs

As Novo Spars Over Semaglutide Capacity, Strides To Arm GLP-1 Generics Cos Ahead Of LoEs

 
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Strides is to supply semaglutide and liraglutide to generics companies amid global capacity constraints and drug shortages, ahead of loss of exclusivity. An ability to make drug-device combinations has meant it has contracts for seven of the eight GLP-1 agonists, and counting

Executives On The Move: Two New CFOs And One New CCO Among This Week’s Changes

Executives On The Move: Two New CFOs And One New CCO Among This Week’s Changes

Recent moves in the industry include changes at the top at enGene Holdings, which also acquires chief technology officer from Albireo Pharma.

iTeos Looking At A Strong Finish To 2024 After Going From Fifth To First In TIGIT

iTeos Looking At A Strong Finish To 2024 After Going From Fifth To First In TIGIT

 
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Positive data on its anti-TIGIT antibody belrestotug meant ITeos provided one of the biggest stories at ESMO this year. CEO Michel Detheux told Scrip there was much more to come from the US-headquartered biotech founded in Belgium.


Sumitomo, Ex-Pfizer Exec On Lipitor Lessons, Lady Gaga Connect For Go-To-Market Strategy

Sumitomo, Ex-Pfizer Exec On Lipitor Lessons, Lady Gaga Connect For Go-To-Market Strategy

 
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CEO of Sumitomo Pharma America unit, Adele M. Gulfo, draws from experiences working across companies including Pfizer, to advise on go-to-market strategies for a portfolio across primary care to rare disease.

Sanofi Exec On Go-To-Market Models, MLR Reviews, Ambidextrous Leadership

Sanofi Exec On Go-To-Market Models, MLR Reviews, Ambidextrous Leadership

 

Sanofi’s EVP (general medicines), Olivier Charmeil, talks about pharma’s evolving go-to-market strategies that enmesh a more personalized, data-driven approach, why the medical, legal, and regulatory (MLR) review process needs to be faster and also impressive learnings from Amazon, Netflix and Ikea around building customer experience.

Piramal Pharma On ADC-Making Edge, BIOSECURE Act, $2Bn-Mark Strategy

Piramal Pharma On ADC-Making Edge, BIOSECURE Act, $2Bn-Mark Strategy

 
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In a video interview, Nandini Piramal, chairperson of Piramal Pharma, speaks with Scrip about a focus on on-patent products, an integrated ADC offering, a measured approach to the proposed BIOSECURE Act and the company’s strategy to double revenue to about $2bn

Another Round Of Layoffs Underway At Sage, Including Half Of R&D

Another Round Of Layoffs Underway At Sage, Including Half Of R&D

 

The latest reorganization comes after a mid-stage pipeline asset failed in Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.


Executives On The Move: UroGen Pharma Acquires CFO From Galera Therapeutics

Executives On The Move: UroGen Pharma Acquires CFO From Galera Therapeutics

 
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Recent moves in the industry include changes at the top at Defence Therapeutics, Trevena and Neurocrine Biosciences, plus Alpha Cognition gets a new chief Financial officer.

OSE Open To Partners For Late-Stage Assets

OSE Open To Partners For Late-Stage Assets

 

CEO Nicolas Poirier talked to Scrip about the development plans for two late-stage assets: a therapeutic cancer vaccine and an IL-7 antagonist for ulcerative colitis.

Singapore ADC Specialist Axcynsis Nets Novel Payload To Address Drug Resistance

Singapore ADC Specialist Axcynsis Nets Novel Payload To Address Drug Resistance

 

Axcynsis is developing a derivative of the chemotherapy agent Yondelis as a new payload, which the Singapore venture will first apply to a Claudin 6-targeting ADC it plans to take into a Phase I trial in the US, its chairman, CEO and founder tells Scrip in an interview.

Executives On The Move: Spyre Therapeutics Secures Chief Medical Officer From Abivax

Executives On The Move: Spyre Therapeutics Secures Chief Medical Officer From Abivax

 
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Recent moves in the industry include C-suite changes at Cybin, Biomarin and Nuvation Bio, plus Novita Pharmaceuticals gets a new chief executive officer.  


How Syngene Is Revving Up Capabilities In ADCs, PROTACs

How Syngene Is Revving Up Capabilities In ADCs, PROTACs

 

Syngene’s CEO talks to Scrip about how the firm is deepening capabilities in areas like ADCs, PROTACs and why the US Inflation Reduction Act may not necessarily shrink outsourced small molecule work. The executive also shares his view on the China ‘rebalancing’ trend amid geopolitical tensions and the US BIOSECURE Act.

Judo Bio Emerges With $100m To Deliver siRNA Therapeutics To The Kidney

Judo Bio Emerges With $100m To Deliver siRNA Therapeutics To The Kidney

 
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Judo Bio, incubated for three years by Atlas Venture to deliver siRNA and other genetic medicines to the kidney, came out of stealth mode with $100m and new CEO Rajiv Patni.

An Activist Investor Makes A Play For Pfizer

An Activist Investor Makes A Play For Pfizer

 

Starboard Value has reportedly bought a $1bn stake in Pfizer with an ambition to turn the big pharma around. But growth, not cost cuts, are Pfizer’s challenge.

Nxera: Building To Become Japan’s Global Biotech Champion

Nxera: Building To Become Japan’s Global Biotech Champion

 

CEO Chris Cargill talks to Scrip about Sosei Heptares’ new identity as Nxera, the ups and downs of being big pharma’s go-to small-molecule drug hunter and its move into commercialization in Japan.