As stakeholders in the pharmaceutical industry, we all have a responsibility to ensure life-saving treatments promptly and safely reach patients regardless of where they live. To this end, by integrating early access programs and other less conventional strategies into a company’s business model for drug distribution, patients who are suffering from life-threatening conditions can gain access to needed treatments in regions where there is a lack of drug accessibility, while at the same time offering benefits to pharmaceutical companies. 2 October 2024
The biopharmaceutical supply chain plays a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless delivery of therapeutics to patients. However, pharmaceutical supply chains face several challenges, including regulatory complexities, global competition, and the need for innovation. 26 July 2024
A recent survey from IDC highlights that 49% of the pharmaceutical industry believes they have achieved success in implementing artificial intelligence (AI) across the entire pharmacovigilance (PV) value chain. However, over the next two years, the industry expects this number to only marginally shift to just 51%. 17 June 2024
An Expert View from Danie du Plessis, executive vice president, pharmaceutical operations at Kyowa Kirin International, and chair of the Medical Affairs Professional Society (MAPS) board. 29 May 2024
The use of AI across all industries and sectors has been heralded as driving efficiency and accelerating innovation, with some experts even citing the technology as the biggest disruptor of our lifetime. 21 May 2024
In an Expert View column, Bruce Leuchter, chief executive of Neurvati Neurosciences, a Blackstone Life Sciences portfolio company, outlines the importance of increased investment in research and development and innovative business models, to bring more therapies for neurological disorders to patients. 17 May 2024
A new age of innovation in immunology could change medical practice and people’s lives, as long as all parts of the system learn, evolve and work together, writes Anant Murthy, General Manager, argenx EMEA, in an Expert View piece. 1 May 2024
A second Expert View piece from Xandra Neuberger, associate director, regulatory affairs and international service lead for clinical trial applications at PharmaLex. 4 April 2024
Xandra Neuberger, associate director, regulatory affairs and international service lead for clinical trial applications at PharmaLex, provides an Expert View. 29 February 2024
In an Expert View piece, Mark Seymour, Director and Head of Media, Healthcare, at FleishmanHillard London, argues that in the ever-evolving world of healthcare, the rules of communications have not changed, they have just become more intricate, demanding a renewed focus on the essentials. 8 February 2024
An Expert View from Ross Maclean, Precision Health Economics, Outcomes Research and Head of Medical Affairs,
Precision Value and Health, and the same company's Jon Bambalas, Senior Vice President Business Development, Products Senior Vice President Business Development. 5 February 2024
Patients must always be the center around which the entire innovation process revolves, while seeking to satisfy unmet patient needs, writes Alfredo Barón de Juan, Executive Vice President, Global Commercial Operations at Almirall, in an Expert View piece. 5 June 2019
Investors stand to play a crucial role in driving healthcare sustainability as well as supporting scientific innovation, write Nathalie Flury and Michael Schröter, founding partners at Swiss asset manager Viopas Partners, and Kate Dion, healthcare value communications consultant at 3D Communications, in an Expert View piece. 24 May 2019
Lithuanian attorney Ruta Pumputiene provides an Expert View on amendments to the Lithuanian Pharmaceutical Law and the subsequent changes to the reimbursable medicines system. 15 May 2019
Edward Jones, policy and communications consultant at GK Strategy, provides an Expert View on how companies can take advantage of the UK National Health Service's policy initiatives to support market access and uptake. 10 May 2019
An Expert View column on how a valuable patent protection encourages development and helps to fund future battles provided by Robert Watson, partner, and Sarah Kostiuk-Smith, European patent attorney, from Mewburn Ellis. 8 May 2019
Professional investors are a fascinating group of individuals, enjoying an incredibly direct link between results and reward, so a lot can be learned from understanding how they focus effort, writes Brian McGee, partner at Novasecta, in an Expert View piece. 18 April 2019
Pharma needs to pay closer attention to ensuring the integrity of its third-party relationships, writes Kathy Johnson, vice president life sciences, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Health Care, in an Expert View piece. 9 April 2019
An Expert View looking at the key factors that will drive deal activity over the next year from Michael Jewell, partner, head of healthcare & life sciences at Cavendish Corporate Finance. 18 March 2019
Even if the UK parliament votes against ‘no deal’ on Wednesday, in the wacky world of Brexit, this cliff-edge scenario is still possible – so Stevens & Bolton partner Charlotte Tillett and senior associate Paula Harris, consider the potential implications for pharma in an Expert View piece. 13 March 2019
In recent years, the pharmaceutical industry has seen tremendous changes in the way it is expected to deliver new drugs to market: being under increasing pressure to expedite the development of new therapies, to decrease clinical study duration, and to drive new treatments through their clinical phases as quickly, safely and cost-efficiently as possible. 5 March 2019
Aaron Hudson, vice president of marketing and clinical diagnostics, SCIEX, writes an expert view on the science that is often considered “closest to the phenotype”. 13 February 2019
Amanda Powell-Smith, chief executive of Forster Communications, outlines the opportunities for pharma companies choosing to follow new guidance on the UK corporate governance framework. 4 February 2019
Ahead of the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) coming into play in the European Union on February 9, Christian Taylor, Serialization Business Consultant at Zetes, provides his five-step plan to becoming FMD compliant in an Expert View piece. 25 January 2019
Imogen Ireland, life sciences IP associate for law firm Hogan Lovells, raises some important issues relating to advances in artificial intelligence (AI) that drugmakers may not have fully considered, in an Expert View piece. 9 January 2019
Does the way artificial intelligence is used in pharma need to be reimagined? Irina Efimenko, chief executive of Russian analytics experts Semantic Hub, and Mike Samsonov, chief medical officer of R-Pharm, consider this question in an Expert View piece. 20 December 2018
Although biosimilars have taken off in Europe, they have yet to gain traction in the USA, writes Anne Runyan, senior consultant of market access at MKO Global Partners, in an Expert View on the topic. 11 December 2018
An exclusive Expert View column written for The Pharma Letter by Thomas Cueni, International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) director general and co-chair of the APEC Biopharmaceutical Working Group on Ethics. 6 December 2018
Charlotte Tillett, partner, and Emily Hocken, trainee, at Stevens & Bolton, offer an Expert View on the significance of the UK Supreme Court ruling in Warner-Lambert (WL) v Generics relating to WL’s best-selling pain relief drug, Lyrica (pregabalin). 28 November 2018