October 14th 2024
Rafaat Rahmani, president and founder of Lifescience Dynamics, grew up in abject poverty, but such hardships—and a later violent brush with racism—would ultimately end up fueling a determined and entrepreneurial path in the life sciences.
TESARO: Setting New Benchmarks in Patient-Centricity
October 6th 2017Mary Lynne Hedley, president and COO of TESARO, talks to Pharm Exec about the company’s innovative approach to responsible drug development and commercialization, and how its theory of putting patients first is translated into practise.
Leading With Patients in Mind: Cynthia Schwalm
September 6th 2017Former critical care nurse Cynthia Schwalm, now executive vice president and president of North American commercial operations for Ipsen, speaks with Pharm Exec about her formula for successful team building internally-and the importance today of stepping outside of the C-suite and into the world of the patient.
Health Policy Problem Solver: Fumie Griego
August 29th 2017Dr. Fumie Griego, the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations’ new Assistant Director General, speaks with Pharm Exec about her mission to use IFPMA ’s international reach to find real and practical solutions to the most pressing global healthcare challenges.
Clinical-Stage Biotech Selects Collaborative Enterprise Tool
August 25th 2017Justin Zamirowski, Edge Therapeutic’s Senior Director of Operational Excellence, and Andy Mehrotra, CEO of Boston-based cloud software developer EightSpokes, discuss how a new, collaborative approach to managing projects across the enterprise is improving time to market.
Advancing Rare Disease R&D: A Mission Update
April 6th 2017Six years in, Pharm Exec looks at the progress of the International Rare Diseases Research Consortium-an ambitious global effort focused on accelerating orphan disease diagnosis, and ultimately enabling better treatment options for these underserved patient populations.
Biopharma Change Agent: Belén Garijo
January 23rd 2017Pharm Exec speaks with Spanish-born Belén Garijo, CEO of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany’s healthcare business, who shares her steady-eyed approach in transforming a traditional pharma unit focused on small molecules for chronic disease to a high-tech specialty producer of immunotherapy drugs for rare cancers.
Paula Apsell: A Storied Life in Science
December 14th 2016Pharm Exec sits down with veteran journalist Paula Apsell, the driving force behind the long-running PBS science series NOVA. Apsell offers straightforward advice to the biopharma industry: make your business a business of inspiration, where the return is measured in passion-and the sheer, simple pleasure of finding things out.
Flipping the Generics Map: Apotex's Jeremy Desai
November 9th 2016Pharm Exec sits down with Jeremy Desai, CEO of Apotex, Canada’s largest producer of generic drugs, to discuss the local impact of mounting pricing pressure-and how smaller and independent companies can survive in an era of consolidation and growing competition.