A Look Back at 2006: The Pipeline Challenge

Our review of top stories of 2006 touches on a variety of subjects, but the majority drive to one über-theme: the pipeline challenge. Products suddenly disappeared into the generic abyss, with nothing new to take their places. Compounds likely to succeed didn't. The price of in-licensable products soared. Even relatively good news for pipelines largely reflected the absence of further bad news: the safety squabbles did not result in higher hurdles to product approvals.

By Roger Longman and Christopher Morrison

In each January issue IN VIVO reviews key stories from the previous year, those that mark important strategic, structural, or...

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