Between 2005 and 2010 AstraZeneca‘s success rates for taking drugs from candidate nomination to phase III completion were at 4%, below an already-low industry standard of 5%.
When Emma Walmsley took the reins of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in 2016, becoming the first woman to head up a major pharmaceutical company, it was headline news.
In episode 4 of the podcast pharmaphorum talked to Dr Joe Wiley, CEO of UK-based biopharmaceutical company Amryt Pharma, about its strategy and work in the rare diseases and gene therapy space.