Tag Archives: Pfizer

UK Reacts to AZ Job Cuts

By Julian Upton | Published: February 2, 2012
UK Waits for AZ Job Cut Breakdown As this blog was posted, AstraZeneca was still keeping the world in suspense as to a further breakdown of its announced 7,300 job cuts. The company’s UK staff assembled for a meeting at 10 am, but as of lunchtime there was still no confirmation of the actual numbers , [...]
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Deals Don't Need Science To Be A Success

By Guest Blogger | Published: September 21, 2011
Deals don’t need science to be a success By Brian McGilligan, Partner, Pharmaceutical Practice, PIPC Ex Pfizer R&D boss, John L. LaMattina recently proclaimed that Big Pharma mergers are crippling science. Whether or not you agree, mergers are a core part of business and the chances of safe-guarding future R&D investment in merged companies will best be [...]
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Pharma's Influence on the Super Committee: Is Cash Really King?

By Ben Comer | Published: August 16, 2011
Three of the twelve appointees to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (aka Super Committee) received over $300,000 in campaign contributions from pharmaceutical companies, according to Center for Responsive Politics data, and a MapLight analysis.
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Planning Beyond the Petri Dish: A Pfizer Case Study

By William Looney | Published: June 29, 2011
Pfizer’s crizotinib development program combined organization, art, and science— and a large dose of unforeseen risk. The path to commercializing a breakthrough discovery is rarely a linear process. The orderly rationale of the scientific method is often overtaken by the random artistry of passion, personality, business culture, and sheer luck. Each plays a [...]
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Study Points to Dramatic Drop In R&D Expenditure

By Guest Blogger | Published: June 29, 2011
Pharma expenditure on R&D has dropped to an estimated $68 billion, according to Thomson Reuters’ 2011 Pharmaceutical R&D Factbook. The three-year low demonstrates the receding trends of drug success, the amount of drugs entering Phase I and II trials and the number of new molecular entities (NMEs) launched in the global market.
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