Chris Lo

All articles by Chris Lo

1. Trouble at Teva: US price-fixing lawsuit adds to generic giant’s woes

   Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is a titan of Israel’s pharmaceutical industry. Over the last 30 years the company has evolved into…
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   1 Aug
2. Drug development: the researchers driving an open-science approach

   As the era of personalised medicine and medical genetics continues to ramp up, it brings with it ambitions for more…
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   11 Apr
3. False flags: are search engines benefiting rogue online pharmacies?

   As consumer spending habits continue to shift from the high street into cyberspace, prompting a retail rush to meet online…
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   26 Mar
4. Where is the UK’s supply of Migraleve?

   Since mid-2018, there has been a conspicuous absence on the UK’s pharmacy shelves. Migraleve, an over-the-counter migraine relief medication distributed…
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   14 Mar
5. Moderna’s gamble: what’s behind biotech’s biggest-ever IPO?

   In December last year, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Moderna Therapeutics smashed the record for the biotech industry’s largest initial public offering (IPO)….
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   21 Feb
6. antiSMASH: on the hunt for new antibiotics

   With an antimicrobial resistance crisis looming on the public health horizon and a generation of antibiotic treatments falling victim to…
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   11 Feb
7. Not so elementary, Watson: the roadblocks for AI in pharma

   Wherever you look in today’s rapidly evolving pharma industry, the shadow of artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t far away. The high…
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   22 Jan
8. Going digital to improve clinical trial enrolment

   Clinical trials are the lifeblood of pharmaceutical R&D, but the experimental therapies of the future aren’t necessarily an easy sell…
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   19 Dec
9. Ebola in the DRC: vaccinating in a conflict zone

   More than two years after the West African Ebola epidemic was declared over, after claiming more than 11,000 lives in…
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   12 Dec
10. Is China the next great hope for the pharma industry?

    For many industries in the 21st century, it’s hard to escape the feeling that all roads lead to China. The…
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    10 Dec