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May 27, 2010 | ISSUE NUMBER 150 VOL 8

Mergers & Acquisitions
Abbott Shells Out $3.7 Billion for Piramal
Abbott and Piramal decide who’s on first in India, whose pharma market is booming—for generics makers.

Emerging Markets
WHO Threatens Industry Shut-out on Counterfeit Regulation
Brazil and India pushed hard at the World Health Assembly for a resolution to curb pharma from over-labeling their generics as counterfeit and restricting market access. But it’s a fine line between eliminating bias and discouraging innovation.

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Digital
Pharma Digital Smarts Quantified in IQ Index
The top brand in a think tank L2 and PHD Network survey on digital competence is Pfizer’s Viagra, but a MENSA spot might be premature at this point.

Regulatory
Post-Approval Regulatory Priorities: Progress or Pile-Up?
Innovation in industry has always required a strong internal champion—the danger is a process led by the bland and risk-averse.

// Qualitest Pharmaceuticals hired Robert Mills as president. // Hiru, after a merger with Jiangxi China Shuang Shi, appointed Xiao Cheii Liu chairman and CEO, Xiang Ling Zhu CFO, and Xue Song Xie general manager. // John Mendlein joined aTyr Pharma’s board as executive chairman. // Techne gave Roeland Nusse a seat on its board. // Mikael Dolsten, Wyeth’s head of R&D before its merger with Pfizer, was appointed president of worldwide research and development. // AstraZeneca appointed Martin Mackay to the newly-created position of president of R&D. //

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