Europe Rainer Westermann offers a sobering take on Europe’s declining global status as both a source and recipient of biopharmaceutical innovation. He argues that the time for a paradigm shift in how the EU values innovation is now, calling for pricing system reform, speedier regulatory and HTA procedures, manufacturing investments, and…
Global Pharma in 2026 will be defined by unpredictability. Executives are already being pushed by shifting policy, commercial, and scientific forces into making fast and tough strategic choices, with more to come throughout the year, as regular contributor Brendan Shaw lays out in his annual look-ahead. Senior executives in the…
USA Thomas Gibbs, EVP and President of Lundbeck US, details his three-decade industry journey before taking the reins of the enterprise’s most strategic market. Accounting for over half of global revenues, the US is a key contributor to Lundbeck’s patient impact and scientific delivery. Along with outlining the organisation’s Focused Innovator…
USA Rob Abbott, CEO of ISPOR—The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) provides an update on the organisation’s activities since taking up the role in 2023, including the launch of a new 2030 strategy and revised mission aimed at integrating HEOR into everyday health policy decision-making. This includes…
France France’s minority government has forced through a Social Security & Healthcare Bill for 2026 containing EUR five billion in healthcare cuts. For the country’s beleaguered innovative pharma industry, this Bill represents yet another setback, with stakeholders warning of more access delays, listing withdrawals, and unnecessary patient suffering. PLFSS 2026:…
USA The latest updates from the US healthcare and life sciences scene. Eli Lilly partners with Nvidia to build a supercomputer for faster drug discovery; Trump secures “most-favored-nation” pricing deals with AstraZeneca and EMD Serono; former FDA vaccine chief Peter Marks joins Lilly to head infectious diseases; Organon CEO Kevin Ali…
Global Pharma executives are used to navigating complexity, but few periods have tested their judgement like the present. As Brendan Shaw writes, between Washington’s renewed push for “most favoured nation” (MFN) drug pricing, fresh waves of US tariffs, and a volatile global policy mood, the rules of engagement for global pharma…
France Virginie Beaumeunier, head of France’s CEPS, brings deep expertise in competition law and economic regulation to pharmaceutical pricing. Her background—including roles at the Finance Inspectorate and Competition Authority—shapes her approach to balancing innovation, cost control, and industrial sovereignty. This interview highlights France’s evolving regulatory landscape, marked by a shift toward…
USA The latest stories from healthcare and the life sciences in the US. RFK Jr shares his 128 recommendations for addressing childhood chronic disease; Suspension of Capsida’s gene therapy clinical trial after patient death; Courts half another attempt to challenge the IRA’s negation program; Takeda scoops up former Lilly exec to…
Global Writing in the April 2025 edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Christopher Morrison and Richard Xie of RA Capital Management L.P., introduce the recently published cost-effectiveness analyses methodology which incorporates key value elements and drivers that are omitted or incompletely captured in traditional clinical outcome assessments. Accelerating scientific discoveries…
USA The US pharmaceutical industry is scrambling to align with President Donald Trump’s policy agenda, but may not get all it wishes for… In its first few weeks in power, the emboldened second Trump administration has enacted a scattergun set of executive orders, covering everything from swingeing cuts to the…
Global A new book by two pharma industry experts offers the first truly global perspective on the complexities of market access. Even the most innovative drug is useless if patients cannot afford or access it. As pharmaceutical innovation advances, market access strategies – determining who gets a drug, at what…
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