Interviews
The big pharma CEO with the highest-valued compensation in 2024 was David Ricks of Eli Lilly, while Pfizer and J&J executives slipped into third and fourth place behind AbbVie's now retired chief Richard Gonzalez. European firms brought up the rear.
The CEO of South Korean biotech shares how his company was able to reach a partnership with Rani so quickly and why it is confident in its GLP-1/GLP-2 dual agonist for obesity and diabetes, despite recent disappointing clinical results for its sole rival.
SK pharmteco CEO Joerg Ahlgrimm talks to Scrip about the "excitement" at BIO, potential CDMO shifts amid the US BIOSECURE Act, and the Korean CDMO's focus on business as usual as it seeks to diversify and grow.
Syntekabio CSO HeaKyoung Cho talks to Scrip how the AI-driven drug development situation in Korea compares with global trends and what the domestic industry needs to do to survive rising competition at home and abroad.
In this video interview, Sharon Chan, vice-president, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS Asia Pacific, shares her views on what South Korea’s strengths are as a biotech and medtech R&D hub, JLABS's plans in the country and what role it wants for its local activities domestically and beyond.
With Leclaza as a foothold, the next couple of years will be crucial for Yuhan’s ambition to become a top 50 global pharma firm. R&D president Yeul Hong Kim shares how he intends to shape the leading Korean company's efforts to compete with its global rivals.
Beijing-based Innolife claims that its drug candidate INL1 can deliver trace elements directly to damaged cardiac tissue. The targeted approach is aimed at activating HIF-1, a protein crucial for growth and oxygen supply and which can promote tissue repair.
Moving decisively but not hurriedly, Henlius is taking a two-pronged approach to join the global ADC race. The first two molecules developed via its in-licensed novel linker-payload platform have entered the clinical stage, while its own proprietary programs are seeing steady R&D progress, the Chinese firm's head of early R&D tells Scrip in an interview.
The ARC-7 trial showed a progression-free survival benefit in NSCLC, but the PFS benefit for zimberelimab/domvanalimab wasn’t as big as analysts and oncologists had hoped.
Gilead’s Kite has taken a lead in multiple myeloma cell therapy while Novartis’s first-to-market Kymriah has slumped in sales, but the Swiss drug maker’s new data may support its effort to win on manufacturing time.
The company presented results from the ZUMA-7 trial at ASCO for the CAR-T therapy in the curative setting of large B-cell lymphoma.
The PD-1/LAG-3 combination showed a high response rate in a small number of melanoma patients with prior PD-1 exposure.
Fresh out of an impressive new round of financing and armed with $32m, Shanghai's Degron Therapeutics is aiming for nothing but first-in-class treatments. Its co-founder and CSO shares views on creating original innovative drugs from inside China in an exclusive interview with Scrip.