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A Pharmacist’s Path Towards Developing Medical Strategy for Field-Based Teams

Pharmacy Is Right For Me

Brown is the National Field Director for Janssen Infectious Diseases & Vaccines. I have been in the pharmaceutical industry since 2007 and have been in various roles involving medical affairs and research and development. Please describe your novel practice setting. What makes your career path unique?

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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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NK cell immunotherapy: what’s next in clinical development?

European Pharmaceutical Review

Pharmaceutical companies such as Sanofi and AstraZeneca are currently conducting several high-potential clinical development programmes in oncology in collaboration with Innate Pharma. In 2007, he became in charge for business development and in 2017, also became responsible of the portfolio strategy.

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A history of Pfizer

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“Lipitor…became the biggest-selling prescription medicine ever, earning Pfizer $12 billion a year in 2007, one quarter of its total sales” The areas that Pfizer directed its research into expanded in these years as well.

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Tagamet for Warts and Shingles!

The People's Pharmacy

It disheartens us to discover that neither pharmaceutical companies nor public health authorities are willing to fund high-quality research to find out if cimetidine really can shorten the duration of a painful shingles attack. To date, however, such studies do not appear to have been conducted. Tagamet for Warts?

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Investment fuels AI-driven development of breakthrough genomic medicines

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Del Bourgo highlights that genomic treatments work in a similar way to mRNA, which has been used in COVID-19 vaccines. As technology has evolved, biotech and pharmaceutical companies have increasingly leaned on AI to support drug development – including to make sense of the vast amounts of healthcare data available to them.

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The Biotech Effect

Pharmaceutical Technology

It was once derided as the stuff of science fiction, but in recent years, biotechnology has emerged as an important growth area in pharmaceuticals. As understanding of biological systems has forged ahead, pharmaceutical companies have made increasing use of biotechnology in discovering and manufacturing new medicines.