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Uruguay progresses towards developing its first regulatory agency

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How will RFK Jr’s American dream for vaccines play out? Since 2008, the Association of Chemistry and Pharmacy of Uruguay has played an active role in promoting a National Health Surveillance Agency, and in 2020 the government attempted to launch a similar agency but it ultimately failed.

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Who is Dr. George Tidmarsh, the new director of CDER?

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Tidmarsh was the founder of Horizon Therapeutics in 2005, serving as CEO until 2008. He was also CEO of La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company from 2011 to 2019, leading the development of a blood pressure drug that failed to meet sales expectations.

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Why pharma needs a revolution in culture

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As we come up on a year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the global roll out of vaccines slowly gathering pace and big pharma riding high in the opinion charts, the biopharmaceutical sector would do well to learn lessons from the banks. Compliance systems by themselves are not enough.

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Beating the Big C

Pharmaceutical Technology

The world’s biggest pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced in June 2008 that it would be putting its “full scope and scale” behind a push into the cancer market. “Companies used to be universally protected by patents but there is a pathway to approval opening up for biosimilar legislation. .”

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A history of AstraZeneca

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But although it was dubbed a “dangerous game”, some companies came out on top… On 6th April 1999, two companies with similar science-based cultures and a shared vision of the pharmaceutical industry came together to form what’s now considered as one of the top ten pharma companies in the world: AstraZeneca.

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Quality first: How pharma can meet injectables demand while staying compliant

Pharmaceutical Technology

During the Covid-19 pandemic, large-scale vaccine production placed unprecedented demand on the parenteral packaging industry. While production volumes have now fallen, future vaccine demand is hard to predict, as booster shots could be needed at any point to control emerging variants.

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Twenty Women Leaders In Healthcare Industry

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In addition to serving as Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Access Journal of Circuits and Systems, she has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems since 2008. Present company and time period: Pfizer (26 yrs.) Present company and time period: Janssen (3 yrs.)