Pharmaceutical Executive: September 2026 Interactive Digital Edition

Nine major European drugmakers warn the region risks losing pharma investment, Novartis licenses a preclinical radioligand therapy asset from BoomRay Pharmaceuticals, and Rafaat Rahmani argues that the costliest competitive intelligence failure is missing the moment a strategic assumption goes wrong.

The best CI partner isn't the one with the most data — it's the one willing to tell you your assumptions are wrong.

Chairs of Europe's largest drugmakers urge the EU to boost health spending, speed up clinical trials, and strengthen IP protections before falling further behind the US and China.

Novartis has agreed to pay BoomRay up to $900 million for exclusive global rights to an undisclosed preclinical radioligand therapy asset.

Inovalon's Jen Lamppa on why FDA's acceptance of RWD downstream is a call to action for sponsors to start using it upstream in trial design.

AbbVie partners with Iambic on AI-driven drug discovery as Telix Pharmaceuticals moves to acquire ITM Isotope Technologies in a multibillion-dollar radiopharmaceutical merger, Novo Nordisk's CagriSema outperforms Eli Lilly's tirzepatide in a head-to-head diabetes trial, and Jen Lamppa of Inovalon discusses how real-time clinical data is reshaping trial recruitment.

AbbVie partners with Iambic to deploy its AI molecular superintelligence platform, while Telix Pharmaceuticals agrees to acquire radioisotope leader ITM.

Novo Nordisk reports that CagriSema delivered 12.4% average weight loss in a late-stage diabetes trial, outperforming tirzepatide's 9.1% at comparable doses.