Category Archives: People

Moving On + Up – 5/6/2010

By George Koroneos | Published: May 6, 2010
Merck upped Ken Frazier to president. He had been president of Global Human Health worldwide sales and marketing. PharmAthene appointed Mitchel Sayare to its board. Michael Marine joined the Sabine Vaccine Institute as CEO. Interleukin Genetics added William Mills to its board. Rigel Pharmaceuticals was named one of the recipients of the 2010 Innovators Award of Excellence by the [...]
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Tauzin’s Farewell to PhRMA

By Jill Wechsler | Published: March 19, 2010
Image via Wikipedia In an emotional farewell address to PhRMA, President Billy Tauzin recapped his five years at the helm of the organization and his efforts to “recapture the value of the PhRMA brand” and to “re-earn the trust of people who had lost faith in us.” “We had to take the target off our backs—to [...]
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HBA Names Woman of the Year

By Oriana Schwindt | Published: February 16, 2010
GSK’s Deirdre Connelly has been named the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association’s Woman of the Year for 2010. Connelly, who just passed the one-year mark as president of GSK’s North American pharmaceuticals unit, is the 21st woman to win the organization’s “WOTY” award, which comes on the heels of another honor: She was ranked #37 in Fortune’s [...]
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PhRMA’s Tauzin Calls it a Day

By George Koroneos | Published: February 12, 2010
PhrMA President and CEO Billy Tauzin announced on Friday that he will step down from his post after five years with the pharmaceutical lobby group. The move comes amid speculation that the President’s healthcare reform bill has stalled in Congress thanks in part to the recent Republican Senate win in Massachusetts. Tauzin was an integral part [...]
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Margaret Hamburg Uncovered

By George Koroneos | Published: January 18, 2010
Judging by the lack of movement on the RSS feeds, most pharma companies gave their employees the day off to celebrate Martin Luther King Day. So, as defacto Pharm Exec photo editor, I thought it might use this quiet time to show off some outtakes from our recent photo shoot with FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, [...]
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