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Pharma Industry Booming in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe’s pharmaceutical market is forecast to grow at a CAGR of more than 10 percent to be worth more than $41 billion by 2014, according to a report from globalbusinessinsights.com. The highest sales are expected to be seen in the cardiovascular market ($7.8 billion), followed by alimentary canal and metabolic disorders ($6 billion).
According to [...]
Posted in Global Also tagged business, Czech Republic, Eastern Europe, Novartis, Pharmaceutical drug, pharmaceutical industry, Slovenia Leave a comment
Latest News from ASCO: Winners, Losers, and Also Rans
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Due to pharma’s voluntary moratorium on doling out totefuls of freebies and all the lattes you can swallow, thousands of docs, researchers, and reporters had only their sleep-deprived selves to carry from data dump to data dump at this week’s American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual confab in Orlando, Florida.
Some 4,000 studies [...]
Posted in Events Also tagged AstraZeneca, Cancer, Chemotherapy, Clinical trial, Lung cancer, United States 1 Comment
Sanofi Executive Change Up
Barely a week after former Glaxo executive Chris Viehbacher assumed the role of CEO, Sanofi-Aventis announced that Jean-Claude Leroy, the company’s executive vp of finance and legal, has left the company. In a short statement, the company noted that his position will be filled by two people, reporting directly to Viehbacher; they are CFO [...]
Posted in People Also tagged CFO, Chris Viehbacher, Jean-Claude Leroy, Karen Linehan, Laurence Debroux Leave a comment
Moving On + Up
Promotions and hires for September 26, 2008:
Merck named Barry J. Goldstein, M.D., vice president of clinical development for diabetes and obesity
Sanofi-Aventis announced that Chris Viehbacher will succeed current CEO Gerard Le Fur in December
GlaxoSmithKline named Ellen Strahlman chief medical officer
Questcor Pharmaceuticals appointed Gary Sawka CFO
Encorium appointed David Ginsberg president and CEO
Wyeth named Daniel J. [...]
Posted in People Also tagged announcements, business, communications, Encorium, executives, Ferring, Genesis, GlaxoSmithKline, Lilly, Merck, Merz, new hires, pharmaceutical industry, promotions, Questcor, Wyeth, Zafgen, Zosano Leave a comment

Pharma Unplugged #2 Layoffs & Bonuses