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Beating the Big C

Pharmaceutical Technology

The world’s biggest pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced in June 2008 that it would be putting its “full scope and scale” behind a push into the cancer market. ” “Between 2003 and 2005 global sales for cancer-treating drugs grew by 40%.” So what’s driving the growth?

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The Witty Answer to GSK’s Future

Pharmaceutical Technology

Andrew Witty took the helm of pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline in May 2008. At 43 he joins the ranks of a growing number of young chief executives in the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceutical-Technology spoke to Paul Diggle, analyst at Nomura Code Securities about Witty’s appointment.