Two years into her tenancy as CEO, Bahija Jallal is on the cusp of taking UK biotech Immunocore from a research and development organization to a company with a burgeoning pipeline and a marketed therapy. She talks to In Vivo about validating the platform, an IPO and creating a commercial footprint.
A lot of people questioned Bahija Jallal’s decision to join the UK independent biotech Immunocore, Ltd.as its CEO in January 2019. She was installed as the highly regarded leader of AstraZeneca PLC’s biologics R&D arm, MedImmune LLC, which coincidentally ceased to operate in just a month later under the auspices of its parent company’s restructuring.
The Oxford-based biotech was a “diamond in the rough” she told In Vivo, “they could not see what I saw...
Launching In Vivo’s oncology therapeutic review series, this first instalment provides a data-led primer on the global cancer landscape. Future instalments will explore market dynamics, pipeline evolution and the innovations set to define oncology therapeutics through 2032.
After 10 years of promised investment following its Nobel Prize for iPS cell research, Japan is cautiously narrowing regulations around the conditional approval of cell therapies and cutting some reimbursement prices. Commercial success remains mixed and some products have been withdrawn from the market.
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Launching In Vivo’s oncology therapeutic review series, this first instalment provides a data-led primer on the global cancer landscape. Future instalments will explore market dynamics, pipeline evolution and the innovations set to define oncology therapeutics through 2032.
Launching In Vivo’s oncology therapeutic review series, this first instalment provides a data-led primer on the global cancer landscape. Future instalments will explore market dynamics, pipeline evolution and the innovations set to define oncology therapeutics through 2032.
