Kevin Grogan
Managing Editor
Kevin Grogan has been writing about pharmaceuticals for over twenty years in roles that have included online editor for PharmaTimes. After four years freelancing, which involved writing for all the principal titles in the sector, as well as consultancy work with major pharmaceutical companies, he joined Scrip as Managing Editor, Europe, Commercial in the summer of 2017.
Covering all aspects of the pharma industry, Kevin has interviewed pretty much all the leading figures in the sector, both in the UK and globally. A regular attendee at financial and medical conferences worldwide (and moderating at some), he has also appeared on BBC television and radio, ITV and Channel 4 to discuss events in the pharmaceutical industry.
Fluent in Spanish, he previously worked as a journalist on rock/pop music publications, was chief sub editor at the Catholic weekly newspaper The Universe and also contributed articles to the likes of The Independent and the Manchester Evening News on football.
Latest From Kevin Grogan
Monte Rosa Hits The Heights With $96m Cash Hike
The Boston-based biotech has secured a substantial new investment for its protein degradation platform which has the potential to treat currently undruggable cancers in a new way.
Anti-Tau For Alzheimer's In The Dock After Semorinemab Fail
Hopes that the Phase II TAURIEL trial could potentially validate the anti-tau antibody approach to treating Alzheimer's have been dashed as semorinemab did not meet its endpoints.
Roche Takes SCENIC Route On Genetic Modifiers
The Dutch biotech's C-suite tells Scrip that the technology it has developed and now licensed to Genentech allows it to systematically go through the whole genome gene by gene and discover what the modifier of a particular disease is.
ESMO: Merck & Co Vibostolimab Data Are Another Validation Of TIGIT
A number of anti-TIGIT drugs are jockeying for position to provide benefit as monotherapies and in combinations for non-small cell lung cancer and Merck's offering is looking to challenge Roche's tiragolumab for the lead.
Roche Bulks Up In NLRP3 With €380m Inflazome Buy
Having acquired Jecure Therapeutics and its preclinical portfolio of NLRP3 inhibitors just under two years ago, the Swiss giant has swooped in to buy Dublin-based Inflazome and expand its presence in a hot field of inflammatory research.
ESMO: Pfizer's Lorbrena Makes Case To Claim ALK+ Lung Cancer CROWN
Lorbrena is approved as a second-line treatment for ALK-positive NSCLC but Pfizer believes data from the first-line Phase III CROWN study makes the drug a serious competitor to standard of care Alecensa in the first-line setting.