After a chance encounter at a photocopy machine brewed the recipe for Pfizer and Moderna’s success with mRNA vaccines, Dr Drew Weissman has set sights on developing a single-injection therapy for sickle cell anemia.

The European pharma sector is looking to maintain supplies of essential medicines to Ukraine and Russia as invasion continues, while a US biopharma group is calling for industries to boycott all non-food and medical trade with Russia.

The European pharma sector is looking to maintain supplies of essential medicines to Ukraine and Russia as invasion continues while a US biopharma group is calling for industry to boycott all non-food and medical trade with Russia.

The rate at which investigational drugs were accepted onto the European Medicines Agency’s priority medicines scheme dropped in 2021. Meanwhile, more much-needed treatments that had been developed under the scheme went on to win EU marketing approval.