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Fixing Biotech's Broken Business Model
Despite some notable successes, the global biotech industry has fallen short of expectations. Strategic collaborations have been on the increase, but there is now a need for more co-operation using new collaboration models, writes Jo Pisani.
The current business model on which biotech has relied is flawed. Due to poor rates of
return, investment has dried [...]
Posted in Biotech, Deals, Emerging Markets, Europe, Global, Guest Blog, R&D Also tagged biopharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, China, emergin g markets, finance, Global, healthcare, payers Leave a comment
Abbott Shells Out $3.7 Billion for Piramal
In July 2009, judging solely by total revenue, Abbott was assigned the rank of the eighth-largest pharmaceutical company in the Fortune Global 500. Nearly a year later, the company is looking to move up at least a few notches. On May 21, Abbott acquired Indian generic giant Piramal for a cool $2.12 billion up front, [...]
Posted in Strategy Also tagged Abbott, branded generics, Diabetes, Eli Lilly, Emerging Markets, generics, Merck, Oncology, Piramal Leave a comment
WHO Threatens Industry Shut-out on Counterfeit Regulation
Big Pharma believes that a global generics franchise might give it a softer landing off the patent cliff, but governments that sponsor and regulate the industry are still acting a bit slow on the uptake. The reason? Anti-IP activists are again poisoning the well on global access to medicines, engaging the bigger emerging market governments [...]
Posted in Global Also tagged Brazil, generics, IFPMA, WHO, World Health Assembly, World Health Organization Leave a comment
Working Towards a Solution : An Interview with Oracle’s Neil de Crescenzo
Just a few days shy of the one year anniversary of the launch of Oracle’s Health Sciences Global Business Unit, Neil de Crescenzo, senior vice president and general manager for the business unit sat down with Pharm Exec to talk about the future of clinical trial software and technology and the need for standards and [...]
Posted in People, Strategy, Technology Also tagged China, cloud computing, hosted applications, IT, Oracle, pharmerging markets, software, Technology 2 Comments
New Decade, New Agenda for Pharma