Sentences with phrase «at pharma companies»

They also enjoy the positive workplace culture at pharma companies, including teamwork and collaboration.

Investors challenge pay packages at pharma companies, saying they incentivize drug price hikes.

However, «Someone's experience at another pharma company might be completely different,» he adds.

Not exact matches

Leslie Dan's latest company, Viventia Bio, looked all set for a robust 2015 and 2016 before a series of scandals at Valeant Pharmaceuticals brought Canada's whole biotech and pharma sector crashing down.

At that price, he would collect $ 800 million, or $ 200 million a year over four years — making more than the CEOs of more than a dozen major pharma companies are likely to be paid, combined.

Others, such as consumer watchdog Public Citizen and the preventive medicine advocacy group Trust for America's Health (TFAH), had very different takes, arguing Cures mostly benefits pharma companies at the expense of other important public health initiatives.

At an investment conference in May, Ackman explained that his long position in the pharma firm stemmed from his belief that Valeant's aggressive acquisition style — and the outsized returns it had so far produced — made the company akin to a younger version of Warren Buffett's Berkshire.

Pharma is generally proud of its diversity: A few days before the Trump enacted the ban, J&J published on its website the story of employee Abdullah Al Hommada, who fled his native Syria for the Netherlands and now works at the company's Janssen division.

Today, at 2 p.m. Eastern, the President will sign the 21st Century Cures Act — approved by the Senate on Dec. 7 by a vote of 94 - to - 5, overwhelmingly passed by the House the week before, and seemingly supported by every pharma company, medical institution, healthcare advocate and their mothers.

At one time blocked by the FDA, 23 & Me is now a smash hit with both consumers and pharma companies.

One day I came home from working at a big pharma company that had the same type of elevator as my condo building in Toronto.

Smooth successions and no surprises are what employees and shareholders want — but that's not what the board at French pharma company Sanofi has delivered.

At a moment when the world's fourth - largest pharmaceutical company by sales (Pfizer) is eagerly courting the world's ninth - largest (the very same AstraZeneca from which Bristol decoupled)-- offering, in late May, a monumental dowry of around $ 120 billion — one can be forgiven for not noticing the more substantive change that's sweeping the pharmaceutical industry: Big Pharma is getting smaller.

US: Heather Bresch, the CEO of Mylan, an American pharmaceuticals company, finds herself at the center of one of the biggest pharma controversies in recent years: price - gouging.

On Monday, United Therapeutics reached a deal to acquire Israel - based SteadyMed Therapeutics Inc. in a deal potentially valued at US$ 216mln, a move that eliminates a serious competitive threat to the Maryland biotech by literally pulling the speciality pharma company into its own corner.

«Nearly 60 % of projected pipeline revenue — an estimate of how much income companies will get from drugs in development — comes from externally sourced products» - Max Nisen, Biotech / pharma columnist for Gadfly at Bloomberg LP

With sustainable, plant - based ingredients and unique, advanced facilities, the Science People at Roquette develop solutions for companies of any size, enabling business partners to excel in their respective product categories: human nutrition, animal nutrition, pharma, and biochemical.

June 6 - 7 Chicago: American Packaging Summit 2018, brings together leaders from across all industry sectors: food and beverage, CPG, cosmetics, pharma, retail, toys and more — involved in the business of packaging, discussing current trends, strategic insights and best practices in packaging innovation, design, materials and branding at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare, organized by Toronto - based company the Generis Group.

Tim Sykes spoke to Tiziano Petrucciani, quality & technical development director at Molteni Farmaceutici, the renowned Italian specialist in pharma R&D and production, about the company's collaboration with Rockwell Automation, using serialisation as a springboard for a profound modernisation of its manufacturing processes.

Also, a pharma company developing this compound would look at transdermal application if it were relevant.

They started by looking at how other pharma companies were using Social Media.

I know probably 20 + recent grads from these types of programs — only two of them have a CV that is likely to even make them a viable candidate for a position to get them in the door at a big pharma company.

There was across all pharma companies a greater degree of outsourcing occurring but at different paces in different companies, and I think probably Pfizer was somewhere in the middle of the range.

Backed by an extensive offering of premium laboratory instruments, consumables and services, the LPS division concentrates on serving the needs of laboratories performing research and quality assurance at pharma and biopharma companies and on those in academic research institutes.

«The nice thing about working for big pharma is that they can allocate resources for doing basic research,» says Gervais, now a research scientist at the company.

In addition, «what attracts people to biotech rather than pharma is that decision lines are much shorter; there is an easy access to everyone in the company,» comments Nicolas Hollanders, a recruitment consultant specialising in biotechnology at Egon Zehnder International in Brussels.

Individuals working in human resources at biotech and pharma companies (Science Careers sales database) were also contacted by e-mail and asked to promote the survey within their organization.

On the plus side, Mark Citron, vice president of clinical and regulatory affairs at TyRx Pharma in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, a combination cardiac device manufacturer, says it's much easier for entry - level scientists to find jobs at MD&D companies.

Sigismondi, who has worked at both pharma and device companies, prefers the latter.

The demand for contractors is increasing at many pharma and biotech companies, especially in product development, clinical research, manufacturing, and medical communications.

Focused on the prospect of jobs at biotech and pharma companies, many life scientists overlook MD&D — a field that, though perhaps currently less lucrative than those better known industries, is also easier to enter for early - career life scientists.

Roughly 25 % of respondents were contacted by direct email; the remaining 75 % of surveys were returned following promotion by 573 contacts in human resources at biotech and pharma companies (Science Careers database).

«These findings could allow the pharma companies to open up large libraries of potent drug candidates earlier discarded due to solubility problems and try them again together with Upsalite,» says Maria Strømme, Professor at the Division of Nanotechnology and Functional Materials at Uppsala University.

Like other big pharma companies, Pfizer is partnering with academic institutions to share the risk of drug development and take advantage of academic scientists» broad base of knowledge, says Boston - based Anthony Coyle, vice president of the Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) at Pfizer.

Patient safety will remain at risk until big pharma's top executives are brought to book for their companies» actions, says Paul Thacker

Navire Pharma is a new company aimed at developing novel small - molecule inhibitors of a tyrosine - protein phosphatase called SHP2 (also known as PTPN11) for genetically - driven and treatment - resistant cancer.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and BridgeBio Pharma today announced the launch of Navire Pharma, a biopharmaceutical company aimed at developing novel small - molecule inhibitors of a tyrosine - protein phosphatase called SHP2 for genetically driven and treatment - resistant cancer.

Dr. Kinet has conducted extensive research and development of new therapies, and he is a Board member of several biotechnology companies, and a Director at UCB Pharma.

At the same time that Purdue and other big pharma companies were hosting symposia, they doubled their sales force and gave doctors 30 - day free coupons so they could let patients try these drugs for pain that previously wasn't managed using opiates.

Prior to Kadmon, Dr. Waksal served as Executive Vice President, Business and Scientific Affairs at Acasti Pharma, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, and as a consultant to Neptune Technologies & Bioressources, Inc., a publicly traded life sciences company and the parent company of Acasti.

I still remember selling Aurobindo Pharma at a loss (120 before split and now it would have been a 14 bagger) because most of the people dismissed that company because of very high debt (we tend to like debt free companies).

And, very locally: I let my IT flag fly a little bit while responding to a Capital Rants post about physical headquarters versus virtual operations, a question biotech and pharma companies actually deal with a lot, given the incredible range of service providers to the industry; and I went to a planning meeting for Ontario's presence at BIO2009 in Atlanta (hint: cool pavilion, free coffee).

At the D&O Diary, Kevin LaCroix, himself an attorney who has clearly read his share of securities fraud complaints, took some time to reflect on the first blush reaction of a non-law blogger to this complaint (PDF) brought against pharma company Medivation.

Claire Debney, director of legal strategy at FTSE 100 pharma company Shire, agrees.

* Turing Pharmaceuticals, the drug company once led by disgraced pharma bro Martin Shkreli, has been accused of retaliation following the alleged sexual assault of its chief commercial officer at the hands of its interim chief financial officer.

This time, however, the source familiar with the patent coalition said that the pharma industry may stay out of the legislative debate — so long as the drug companies feel comfortable the measures are aimed at patent trolls and not pills.

However, there may be a way to leverage your existing sales and marketing experience to work at a pharma or biotech company.

A number of big pharma will continue to drive M&A activity through 2015 & 2016 where larger companies such as Pfizer and Teva have both the appetite and the cashflow to look at investments that support existing divisions.

Pharma companies are attempting to improve their perception within society, moving away from the image of large companies driven by profit at all costs, and instead as more altruistic organisations providing a much needed service.

At Hays Pharma, we have worked with many of the leading life science companies to fill mid to upper level permanent or temporary professionals within the health economics and outcomes research areas.