Category Archives: People

Exclusive Interview: The European Medicine Agency's Thomas Lönngren

By William Looney | Published: December 14, 2010
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is a unique institution, pursuing a mandate shared with a complex web of national and regional groups, each able to place a distinctive imprint around the delicate task of certifying the safety and efficacy of new drugs. In return, EMA has made a virtue of necessity. It filled the regulatory [...]
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Pfizer: A Sudden Change at the Helm

By Jennifer Ringler | Published: December 6, 2010
Pfizer veteran insider succeeds Jeffrey Kindler as CEO—with more to come Pfizer’s Board of Directors has elected Ian C. Read, currently head of the company’s global biopharmaceutical operations, as President, CEO, and director.  Read succeeds Jeff Kindler in a transition that was sudden and unexpected:  occurring on a Sunday night, by early Monday morning Kindler’s [...]
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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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