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Beating the Big C

Pharmaceutical Technology

The world’s biggest pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced in June 2008 that it would be putting its “full scope and scale” behind a push into the cancer market. ” “Between 2003 and 2005 global sales for cancer-treating drugs grew by 40%.” So what’s driving the growth?

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A history of AstraZeneca

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However, it withdrew its neuropharmacological drug, Zelmid, which was an SSRI, due to concerns over side effects only a year after it was introduced in 1982. In 1990, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested Astra to change Losec’s brand name to Prilosec, to avoid confusion with Sanofi-Aventis’ diuretic, Lasix (furosemide).

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Quality first: How pharma can meet injectables demand while staying compliant

Pharmaceutical Technology

Several drug development trends are driving injectables demand. This includes the rising number of biologic drugs on the market, which are mostly administered parenterally. During the Covid-19 pandemic, large-scale vaccine production placed unprecedented demand on the parenteral packaging industry.

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Top 20 IPOs in Healthcare by Total Fund Value

PharmaShots

Shots: Immutable capital demands and high-spending drug development plans are the most common drivers in encouraging fully-fledged private healthcare companies to go public. Founded Year: 2008 No. With an aim to develop a VLP-based vaccine candidate, Frazier and Takeda Pharmaceuticals underwent a collaboration to form Hillevax.

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Meet the company on a mission to transform research and advance healthcare

Pharmaceutical Technology

On the other hand, a lack of diversity in clinical trial populations, particularly when the disease population is significantly underrepresented, greatly diminishes the quality of data obtained for drug safety and efficacy profiles. This may sound obvious, but it is still a major hurdle in drug development.

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The Biotech Effect

Pharmaceutical Technology

We are now one of the ten largest biopharma companies in the world with a rich armoury of new technology, comprising a full suite of technologies, small molecules, antibodies and vaccines to create new human medicines.”

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Are we globally prepared for the next pandemic?

European Pharmaceutical Review

Vaccitech’s Chief Business Officer, Graham Griffiths, discusses key learnings in drug and vaccine development , the challenges of preparing for the unknown, and how strategic collaboration is imperative to achieve faster and more equitable outcomes – if and when another pandemic strikes.

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