The pharma, biotech and allied industries came back together in London on 2 December to celebrate a year of exceptional achievement at the 17th Annual Scrip Awards, hosted by the journalist and broadcaster Amol Rajan.

Contract research organization leaders weigh in on how to avoid some recent pitfalls seen at US FDA advisory committee panels.

Plus deals involving Sanofi/SIRION, Merck KGAA/Day One, Beijing Tide/Graviton, Vaccinex/Surface Oncology, Athena/Tris, Biomunex/Onward, Cellectis/Cytovia

US FDA’s global first for Moderna’s vaccine gets a small mention as agency looks to pharmacovigilance, follow-up studies for both coronavirus inoculations that have now been authorized. Moderna's 18 December EUA comes after an even faster review than for Pfizer/BioNTech's vaccine.