As a life scientist you might not have considered a business education. You are good at what you do, you may have no ambition to run a company or sit at a boardroom table. So why spend time on business fundamentals? The honest answer is that deep technical expertise...
Few classes of medications have changed the perioperative conversation as quickly as glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs). Originally developed primarily for the management of type 2 diabetes, GLP-1 therapy is now widely used for obesity and metabolic...
It’s been an extraordinary two years for anyone working in pharma commercialization, with the macro environment shifting meaningfully under the feet of all those sitting on the commercial side of pharma or building in digital health with pharma partnership...
In pharmaceutical manufacturing, quality control testing is often the point at which a product gets its final analytical assessment. But from my experience in pharmaceutical quality control, one principle is worth emphasizing: QC testing is essential, but QC testing...
The semaglutide patent expiry of March 2026 has now had six months to work. The evidence is uneven. In India, prices fell by up to 70% within weeks. In Canada, generic pens reached pharmacies in May. In China, not one generic has been approved. Readers in the United...
Orforglipron (Foundayo) is now available in the UK following The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approval on 10 August, making the UK the first European country to license it for weight management and type 2 diabetes. The first oral...
CagriSema, the once-weekly obesity therapy from Novo Nordisk, has spent more than a year as the most closely watched candidate in metabolic medicine. The combination of cagrilintide and semaglutide promised weight loss beyond what either molecule could achieve alone....
What Global Surveys of Medical Affairs Professionals Reveal Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the pharmaceutical industry, prompting many Medical Affairs professionals to ask whether some roles may eventually become obsolete. Headlines regularly...
Last updated 18 October 2026. Generic semaglutide is now on sale in India and Canada, and France began reimbursing obesity treatment on 15 June. GLP-1 uptake by country has rarely looked so uneven. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists began as type 2...
Artificial intelligence has already changed the rhythm of discovery in biopharma. Algorithms can screen millions of molecules, identify trial candidates, and forecast supply chains with extraordinary speed. Yet speed is not the same as progress. The next chapter of AI...
GLP-1 receptor agonists are transforming obesity treatment. But the clinical conversation about lean muscle preservation is lagging behind the prescribing rate, and that gap has real consequences for patients, says Omar el-Gohary. There is a version of the GLP-1...
The oral GLP-1 market has changed faster in the past six months than in the previous six years. Where once Rybelsus stood alone as the only GLP-1 pill available, patients and clinicians must now navigate three distinct oral products, each with a different molecule, a...
The GLP-1 drug pipeline has become one of the most consequential and closely watched in modern pharmaceutical history. In 2026, the class of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists is no longer defined solely by Ozempic and Wegovy. A new generation of oral tablets,...
In May 2026, a single intravenous infusion reduced LDL cholesterol by up to 62% in patients with a genetic condition that no statin could adequately control. No repeat dosing was required. No serious adverse events were reported. The therapy, VERVE-102, was not a...
Every time a pharmaceutical company submits a new drug to the US Food and Drug Administration, a clock starts. That clock ends on the PDUFA date. For anyone working in life sciences, whether in regulatory affairs, clinical research, investment, or commercial planning,...
A team of researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine, Princeton University, the University of California Berkeley, and Google DeepMind has developed CRISPR-GPT, an AI gene editing system designed to automate and dramatically simplify CRISPR-based gene...
As global regulators and scientific communities continue to push for more predictive, human-relevant, and ethical approaches to safety testing, in vitro toxicology has emerged as a critical component of modern drug development. Once seen primarily as an early...
For years, biopharma has accumulated vast volumes of data. Now, as the industry races toward an AI-driven future, that data must become a true strategic asset. Recent research shows that while 95% of biopharma companies are actively pursuing AI initiatives in...