Pharmaceutical Executive, December 2016 Issue (PDF)

Experts warn prediction markets are exposing gaps in pharma vendor confidentiality agreements, Roche licenses Rona Therapeutics’ obesity RNAi candidate while Pfizer partners with Enodia Therapeutics on Sec61 inhibitors, and PaxSafe’s Mark Talens makes the case for acting on imperfect supply chain data.

Roche licenses Rona Therapeutics’ ALK7-targeting RNAi candidate for obesity, while Pfizer partners with Enodia Therapeutics on Sec61 inhibitor discovery.

As CROs, labs, and other outside partners gain early access to trial and FDA data that sponsor employees have, experts say closing the gap starts with rewriting confidentiality language.

Fox Rothschild's Marc Wagner on why scaling drug production is so slow — overseas API sourcing, supplier qualification, and FDA site approvals that take years.

PaxSafe's Mark Talens on why pharma supply chain AI fails before it starts — and the data foundry framework that changes that.

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.

Waiting for perfect data before deploying AI is a trap — and why 60-70% accuracy is often good enough to start.