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Top 10 Biotech CEO Pay Packages of 2012
It's a great time to helm a large biotech company, generally. Big biotech players overall posted major growth last year, and their CEOs got richer in the process. Most got fat raises while others saw their bundles of pay pale in comparison to 2011 figures. We surveyed the total compensation packages of the 10 largest biotech companies based on market capitalization as of early May, sleuthing mostly proxy statements for the financial details on pay for some of the most powerful people in the industry. Check it out >>
Which Big Biotechs are hitting the gas pedal on R&D spending?
The R&D numbers for the top 10 biotechs may only amount to a fraction of what you'll find in Big Pharma. But unlike the giants, which are trying to keep a lid on multibillion-dollar budgets, you'll find a much faster crowd when you turn your gaze to the biotechs.
UPDATED: Vertex skyrockets on positive Ph2 combo study in cystic fibrosis
Vertex Pharmaceuticals jolted Wall Street with a fresh batch of midstage data on one of its combo therapies against cystic fibrosis.
Which drugs are the biggest duds in blockbuster-land?
EvaluatePharma researchers totted up sales for the last 5 years' worth of analysts' blockbuster picks--and found plenty of bad bets.
Vertex, Bristol-Myers mix pills for Phase II study in hepatitis C
Vertex Pharmaceuticals has found another ally as the company plays catch up in the race to advance all-oral therapies against hepatitis C. Vertex and Bristol-Myers Squibb have agreed to combine experimental compounds to test in Phase II trials, the first of which will kick off during the current fiscal quarter.
Vertex plots a race through PhIII for 'breakthrough' combo CF therapy
Vertex Pharmaceuticals has set the stage for an ambitious Phase III program for its combo approach matching the experimental VX-809 and Kalydeco for cystic fibrosis. And if it can stick with the plan, Vertex will cut a short path directly to an approval for the groundbreaking combo.
Pfizer's Xalkori, others spotlight spoils of computer-aided drug discovery
Computer-designed drugs have come of age. More than two decades after industry pioneer Joshua Boger set sail from Merck to start Vertex Pharmaceuticals ($VRTX) to advance structure-based drug design, the industry has seen multiple drugs discovered with the help of computers reach the finish line with FDA approvals.
Much goes into pricing a drug at $295,000
So what goes into landing on $295,000 as the annual cost of a drug that maybe only 3,000 patients a year will use? That is the price tag that NPS Pharmaceuticals ($NPSP) has put on the recently approved Gattex, a treatment for short bowel syndrome.
Incivek patients died from skin reactions, Vertex says
Vertex Pharmaceuticals has some serious news about its hepatitis C drug Incivek: Some patients have died from serious skin reactions. The treatment, approved last year, was known to cause rash and skin reactions in some people, but this is the first time Vertex has reported deaths from those reactions.
FDA matches most new drug approvals in years in 2012, but is it enough?
The FDA has highlighted the agency's 35 new drug approvals in fiscal year 2012 and its track record for beating regulators in other countries as the first to green-light therapies three-quarters of the time.
