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June 29, 2018

Welcome to FierceLifeSci Weekly Digest, your roundup of the biggest and most popular stories from each of our publications.

Featured Story

Less than a year into the job, 'action-oriented' Teva CEO Schultz has analysts impressed

Teva’s mega-cost-cutting drive hasn’t been popular with workers or its home country of Israel. Analysts, on the other hand, like what they’ve seen so far from the company’s new C-suite team.

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Roivant cuts staff, reassigns others in major reshuffle, as insider decries 'bloodbath'

Roivant has laid off some staff and reassigned others to subsidiaries in a notable strategic shift. The changes see Roivant shed around 10% of its staff and cede responsibility for others to the heads of its portfolio of startups.

Johnson & Johnson shakeup leaves Joaquin Duato with largest portfolio

The executive pyramid at Johnson & Johnson is going through a significant remake with pharma head Joaquin Duato taking on the consumer responsibilities held by Group Worldwide Chairman Sandra Peterson as she prepares to retire.

The top 5 highest-paid women biopharma executives in 2017

Women only hold a quarter of all C-level biopharma jobs, and when they do make it to the top, women are overall paid far less compared to many of their male counterparts. Here, we list the top 5 highest-paid female biopharma executives based on their 2017 compensation.

FDA should be split up—and stop covering food, says White House

The FDA could become much smaller if a proposal by President Trump to separate the regulation of food and medicines comes into effect.

With Lynparza's first-line ovarian cancer win, AstraZeneca and Merck get a shot at $1B sales boost

AstraZeneca and Merck & Co. are looking at a $1 billion opportunity for Lynparza, thanks to new data that support using it to fight advanced ovarian cancer in certain women who have just been diagnosed, rather than after chemotherapy. It's the first PARP inhibitor to deliver a success in untreated women, adding to a string of firsts in its class.

Sanofi, Verily and Sensile to build all-in-one insulin patch pump

Sanofi, Verily and Sensile Medical are teaming up to develop an “all-in-one” insulin patch pump, primarily aimed at patients with Type 2 diabetes.

Poliovirus treatment for glioblastoma posts 'encouraging' survival data, but work remains

The team behind a much-hyped cancer-killing virus reports an "encouraging" 21% long-term survival rate in glioblastoma patients. But the number of patients who survived may be too small to know for sure if the treatment works.

PPD proposes finding patients first, activating sites second

PPD unveiled a new patient enrollment model, dubbed PatientAdvantage, which uses big data to identify eligible patients and then connect them with possible study sites, inverting the traditional steps of clinical trial delivery.

FDA gives Biocon biosimilars plant clean bill of health

Indian biosimilar maker Biocon has had the taint of an FDA manufacturing citation erased with an agency action that indicates a key plant in Bangalore, India, is now in compliance. The regulatory overhang had delayed Biocon and partner Mylan getting some products approved.

Cell-based flu vaccines only slightly better than traditional shots in seniors: FDA study

A new FDA study looking at millions of CMS hospitalization data points found that flu vaccines made from the newer, cell-based technology weren’t performing much better than traditional egg-based ones in seniors, a historically tough group to protect.

Enrollment Showcase

SBMI Now Offering an Online Graduate Program in Bioinformatics

UTHealth SBMI now offers a M.S. track in clinical and translational bioinformatics.

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[Whitepaper] Getting to First-in-Human Clinical Trials: A Make-or-Break Milestone for Small Biopharmas

“Faster and better” has become the mantra for biopharmaceutical companies as they face intense pressure to get therapies to market faster. Quickly proving efficacy in first-in-human (FIH) trials is a make-or-break milestone for these cash-strapped companies whose hopes hinge upon one or two molecules. Read how CDMOs are responding to this pressure.

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