Pharmaceutical Executive Digital Edition - April 2012

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.

Fox Rothschild's Mark Wagner on why the FDA counts 70 drugs in shortage while ASHP counts 188 — and what's driving the gap.

The FDA approves Roche’s Tecentriq for a subset of colon cancer patients, TRexBio and Retension Pharmaceuticals price new IPOs, and a Pharmaceutical Executive feature examines what it takes to turn precision medicine’s biological gains into deliverable therapies.

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.

TRexBio and Retension Pharmaceuticals priced IPOs, raising a combined $161.7 million to advance their immunology and hypertension pipelines ahead of their Nasdaq debuts.