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Ahead of Pharm Exec’s 30th Anniversary Issue later this year, we are assembling a list of pharma leaders who have made the most impact on the industry.
Which individual(s) or institution(s) do you think has had the most influence of the industry in the last 10–30 years?
Please leave a comment in the box below or drop the editor at line at wlooney@advanstar.com We look forward to receiving your suggestions.
Julian Upton
News and Online Editor
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Bristol-Myers Squibb – most productive and successful R&D organization.
Bill Castell at Amersham Biosciences(now GE Healthcare) – the whole push to personalize medicine
Trudy Elion at Wellcome. Nobel Prize winner for rationale drug design.
Founders of Key Labs & KOS pharma – not once but twice started up pharma companies
Founder of Marion Labs – another legacy of rising beyond expectations
Dr. David Phillips of COR Therapeutics, invented a whole test of an important end point of platelet expression in defining the GPIIb/IIIa receptor site plus the entire drug class, his legacy continues with Portola Pharma to this day.
Art Levinson and Genentech. The oldest biotech company that proved that making proteins and monoclonal antibodies could be profitable and life changing. Art transformed the company by focusing on unmet medical needs and pushing research beyond traditional channels.
Dr. Paul Janssen, founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica (part of J&J), succesfully developed 75 drugs between 1960 and 1995, including a couple on the WHO list of essential medecines. He changed the life of psychiatric patients forever by introducing haldol and risperdal, created single-handedly the market for antifungals and developed a whole range of anesthetics, including the most powerful anesthetic on earth. His mantra was ‘look at the whole patient’ not a single molecular target.
The Federal Government.
The death of an industry – cronie capitalism and government overreach.
Merck & Co has contributed so much in many therpeutic areas. If Merck was not there what would have been ?
Novartis Pharma The world leader in R&D