Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan outlines how the company is progressing data science and digital transformation across operations, including plans to use predictive analytics to forecast production supply chain runs. The Swiss firm is also monitoring the evolving coronavirus situation closely but has safety stocks for its key products and innovative medicine portfolio and is "okay" for now.

The introduction of gene therapies has been the highest-profile new modality to reach the market, but new RNA-based therapeutics hold significant potential and could be more accessible for patients. In Vivo reviews the leading drug developers in this space.

The pricing of medicines may appear as a mystery to many; theories range from what the market will bear to prices being based on value. The Pink Sheet examines the role of two key players with influence in drug pricing in the UK – health technology assessment body NICE, which decides whether a product is value for money, and NHS England, which leads the tax-funded national health service in England and pays for new specialized drugs.