19 Apr, 2022 Access by Spanish patients to authorised medicines in Europe By Andrea Fernandez Paula Gonzalez de Castejón Llano-Ponte The annual report "Indicators of Access to Innovative Therapies in Europe (W.A.I.T. Indicator)", prepared by the consultancy firm Iqvia...
04 Feb, 2019 PureTech Health summit bringing Brain Immune Gut research together By DLA Piper The final session at BIG was entitled Turning Pharma on its Head: The Next Big Thing. There was discussion of particular technologies...
04 Feb, 2019 Day 2 Puretech Health - BIG Summit By DLA Piper Fascinating and inspiring presentations at BIG about the brain-gut axis and the key role of all mucosal immune systems in CNS related...
25 Jan, 2019 BIG (Brain-Immune-Gut) Summit January 2019 By DLA Piper I am really looking forward to attending this conference; not just because it is in Aruba!. There is very exciting science happening on...
05 Apr, 2018 The Consero IP Forum for Life Sciences: a great opportunity for sharing knowledge By Roberto Valenti Between 9 and 11 April I will be in Basilea with Johan Renes from DLA Piper Amsterdam and Paula Gonzalez from DLA Piper Madrid at the...
19 Mar, 2018 Some Brexit clarity.....to end of 2020 By DLA Piper A Brexit transition period to 31 December 2020 is good news for the Life Sciences industry. Brexit negotiators have now agreed Article...
13 Mar, 2018 Publishing Clinical Data under Policy 0070 By DLA Piper We have been looking closely at the EMA requirements for publishing clinical data under Policy 0070. There is an expanding body of...
12 Mar, 2018 What’s in a name? The Latest Considerations in Naming Biosimilars By Roberto Valenti Really looking forward to meeting you at the IP Forum for Life Sciences in April. I will be hosting a discussion with tregard to naming...
06 Mar, 2018 Northern Powerhouse going global By DLA Piper Tomorrow I will be on stage at 11 am discussing 'Growing Global' at the Northern Powerhouse Health Innovation Conference 2018. The first...
19 Dec, 2017 Challenging Statistics By Kate Hodgkiss The most likely explanation for the anomalies identified in the gender pay reports published so far is the fact that, whilst...
11 Dec, 2017 Personal Data - Extending Liability By Kate Hodgkiss At a time when organisations are looking to put their houses in order to address the demands of GDPR, this poses a salutary warning to...
08 Dec, 2017 FDA and the Future of Digital Health By Becca McKnight New guidance just out from FDA on its approach to the regulation of digital health. For companies pursuing opportunities where...
01 Dec, 2017 Crispr - a fascinating new technology on the horizon of mankind. By Bertold Bar-Bouyssiere This is intriguing and may be the 3D-printer of the life science industry. Obviously, there are many legal pitfalls that require careful...
17 Nov, 2017 Checkpoint Inhibitors and Diabetes By Lisa Haile PD-L1 and checkpoint inhibitors have been front and center in the media relating to the treatment of cancer. Researches are now looking...
17 Nov, 2017 Regulating High Cholesterol-A Never Ending Challenge By Lisa Haile Researchers from Harvard identified a new protein, Nrf1, which regulates high cholesterol by binding directly to it. This binding prompts...
17 Nov, 2017 Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Treat Blindness By Lisa Haile We have been hearing for a decade about the use of stem cells to create organs and treat diseases. Today, a study showing that hES cells...