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Former AbbVie executive Severino joins Flagship-backed startup as CEO

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Severino left the pharma company in April after eight years as its chief scientist and then president. He'll lead Tessera Therapeutics, a well-funded genetic medicine startup.

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STAT+: CAR-T therapy doesn’t work in all cancer cases. Scientists are starting to figure out why

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In lymphoma, scientists are just beginning to work out why over half of treated patients don’t experience lasting remission, depending on the product. When CAR-T therapy works against blood cancer, it can work spectacularly, but cancer still returns for many patients.

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Big pharma companies partner to form AI-based start-up

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Built under a government tender, AION Labs comprises four large international pharma companies – AstraZeneca , Merck, Pfizer , and Teva – and another core partner, the Israel Biotech Fund. At times, companies invest millions of dollars in developing and studying a therapy that may find to be ineffective. The partnership.

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Dear FDA: WTF?

World of DTC Marketing

Some patients love the brand of prescription drugs they take because simply “they work” Pharma companies do study brand names, but that’s only about the overall branding of the product. The FDA’s scientists don’t understand marketing because marketing is not a science.

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GSK opens £10m AI hub in London

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King’s Cross is also home to Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence company, which has already been involved in life sciences projects such as using the technology to predict acute kidney injury. The company’s King’s Cross scientists will be part of an 80-strong team of AI experts across the world.

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Another reason change is needed at FDA? Fair balance

World of DTC Marketing

Safety pages on Pharma product websites continue to have high utility. As we have seen over the past few years, Pharma companies are a business, a regulated business, but still a business. If the FDA understood consumer behavior like marketers instead of scientists, they would understand how DTC works.

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Pfizer signs deal with Gilead to manufacture COVID-19 antiviral remdesivir

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It is part of a five-point plan by Pfizer launched in March that urged all pharma companies and biotechs to work together with government agencies and academic institutions to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. Pfizer will provide contract manufacturing services at its facility in McPherson, Kansas, to supply the drug to Gilead.