"I’m a romantic and an optimist," Pfizer Inc. ’s new global head of R&D, Martin Mackay, told The RPM Report’s FDA/CMS Summit for Biopharma Executives in December. That much was clear from his upbeat assessment of the state of industry pipelines. And he didn’t stop there: "This is the golden age of drug discovery."
This is the golden age? The Food & Drug Administration approved just 17 new molecular entities in 2007, the lowest...




