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Paving the way for anti-Abeta active immunotherapy

European Pharmaceutical Review

Active immunotherapy through vaccination has a far lower cost than mAb-based therapies, representing an important decrease of economic burden for healthcare systems at a global scale. Andrea Pfeifer, PhD In 2003, Andrea Pfeifer co-founded AC Immune SA. She is currently CEO and successfully led the IPO on Nasdaq in 2016.

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Beating the Big C

Pharmaceutical Technology

” “Between 2003 and 2005 global sales for cancer-treating drugs grew by 40%.” “There’s a huge clinical need which has been undelivered for years,” says Gustav Ando, manager of the healthcare business development unit [HBDU] at Global Insight.