AI does not end uncertainty in pharma strategy. Its value depends on how well leaders blend it with experience and evidence while keeping judgment human.

Astellas CEO Naoki Okamura is putting a “patient axis” operating model, a broader portfolio of strategic brands and a new generation of science to work in the company’s bid to return to record growth.

As established gains in personalized and targeted therapy have enabled increasingly precise approaches to disease, novel technologies are expanding what is possible while creating new challenges for drug developers.

A passing FDA inspection tells pharma senior leadership very little about whether the next significant revenue vulnerability is already taking shape. But continuous, AI-enabled quality management maturity (QMM) has the potential to do so months before the issue reaches the realm of P&L.

MERGE's Pat McGloin on why pharma AI fails when strategy follows technology — and why the brilliant basics still have to come first.

Thomas Appio has been named interim CEO of Bausch + Lomb, a move coinciding with an expected upward revision to the company’s full-year guidance.

A conversation with Geoffrey T. Sanzenbacher, a research fellow at the Center for Retirement Research.

Improved financing conditions and accelerating M&A are creating new opportunities, but policy uncertainty, patent expirations and persistent funding pressures continue to shape the outlook for pharma and biotech.