Pharma Recent Job Changes
Viamet Pharmaceuticals named Marc Rudoltz as chief medical officer; Virobay named David Karpf as chief medicial officer; Galleon Pharmaceuticals named E. Euan MacIntyre as sr vp, drug discovery; Galleon Pharmaceuticals named James McLeod as sr vp, clinical R&D; Sialix hired Norrie Russell as ceo and president; AbelsonTaylor promoted Matt Collins to vp, director of interactive […]
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Drug company CEO sells mansion where girlfriend died
Jonah Shacknai, founder and CEO of Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp., sold the 12,750-square-foot property on Monday to a group of unidentified investors, said Scott Aurich, of Pacific Sotheby’s International Realty. The purchase price was not disclosed. The landmark 12-bedroom, 11-bath Spreckels mansion in Coronado, California, an upscale resort island near San Diego, was listed for $14.5 […]
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Drugmakers From Which Country Will Offer Bribes?
As the world grows smaller and multi-national drugmakers race to establish beachheads in the so-called emerging markets, such as China and India, the threat of competition also grows stronger every day. Notably, many of these countries want to develop their own pharmaceutical industries. And why not? After all, such growth expands economies and can make […]
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Sanofi To Layoff Hundreds In Sales And R&D
In the aftermath of the Genzyme acquisition, Sanofi told employees this morning about plans to shift various R&D operations between New Jersey and Massachusetts, as well as scaling back the sales force, primarily in the cardiovascular and oncology groups. All told, hundreds of jobs will be eliminated, although a spokesman was unable to specify the […]
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Glaxo To Pay $3B To Settle Marketing Probes
In the largest settlement of its kind involving a drugmaker, GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay $3 billion to resolve a trio of US investigations into its sales, marketing and pricing practices dating back more than a decade. The deal, which is expected to be finalized, some time next year, would settle both civil and criminal […]
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The FDA Approved How Many New Drugs?
Why not take an opportunity to crow when the numbers are going your way? That is what the FDA is doing today with a new report that trumpets that 35 new medicines were approved over the past 12 months, which is nearly the highest number of approvals in the past decade. The only year in […]
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Former Pfizer Rep Won’t Return $411K Severance
Nearly two years ago, Janet Rodriguez was told by Pfizer that her services as a sales rep – a position she held since 1993 – were no longer needed. And so the ensuing paperwork for termination indicated that she was entitled to receive a lump sum payment of $105,851.75. But instead, Pfizer mistakenly sent a […]
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J&J Faces A Boycott Over Baby Shampoo Chemicals
Two years after several advocacy groups complained about the use of two potentially harmful chemicals in Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Shampoo, the healthcare giant continues to sell the venerable product in the US with traces of those ingredients, but does not do so in several other countries. And the ongoing discrepancy threatens to give J&J […]
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Genzyme Charged With Double Standard, Again
Throughout the controversial shortage of Genzyme medicines, the biotech has upset Fabry disease patients with rationing of its Fabryzyme med in the US. The official reason given has been there simply is not enough to go around, although patients in Europe were offered full dosages, fueling perception of an inexplicable double standard (back story). Genzyme, […]
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And The World’s Largest Drug Maker Will Be…
Pretty soon, it will no longer be Pfizer. Instead, Sanofi is expected to become the No. 1 drugmaker next year and stay on top until at least 2016, by which time Pfizer will slide to third place, behind Novartis, according to the latest calculation by EvaluatePharma. The fall from grace is, of course, largely attributed […]
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