Opinion

Working at a Big Pharma has its benefits, but there are limitations too. SERB Pharmaceuticals’ Thomas Kolaras discusses how moving to a midsize company creates new opportunities for sharpened thinking and leadership.
The biopharma industry would do well to re-embrace the 505(b)(2) path, which allows sponsors to draw on previous findings around an existing drug even as they propose modifications to it.
The choices that change a career often look like extra work at the time. Executive coach Angela Justice examines why the projects, questions, relationships and conversations people almost dismiss can become the ones they later recognize as turning points.
FDA’s rare disease decisions are strongest when the patient community has a voice in advisory committee decisions.
Last month, the FDA launched TrialBlazer, intended to streamline the IND path and bring early clinical trials and medical innovation home to the U.S. It’s a start, but new agency leadership must see it through.
Innovation drives CROs to win new business, but unchecked customization creates complexity that undermines reproducibility, weakens renewals and leads to turnover—making standardization a strategic necessity, not a constraint.
The 2022 search approach is no longer working. Companies need to think critically about how they are acquiring top regulatory, clinical and commercial executives or risk their programs in this new regulatory and market reality.
When the variance can’t be modeled, even disciplined biotech investors stop deploying. Here’s the cheapest fix for biotech’s investability problem.
Controlling CEOs, manipulative middle managers and high-performing jerks can damage employees’ trust in employers and motivate them to hit the job market. Kaye/Bassman’s Michael Pietrack discusses the problematic behaviors executives must watch for in the workplace.
While merger and acquisition activity has been robust of late, frequent changes in guidance and leadership at the regulator add risk to any transaction.