Ethicon Endo-Surgery snaps up SterilMed

Commissioner Margaret Hamburg’s reorganization at the top of FDA puts an expert in pediatric drug development and pharmacogenomics in a new post overseeing four of the seven agency centers, including the device unit.

Global CEOs of J&J, Pfizer, AbbVie and Takeda were among the top pharma executives attending the China Development Forum in its first in-person meeting in three years, and highlighted a number of pharma-related policy changes they would like to see in China. Meanwhile, a Japanese employee of Astellas has been detained in the country for alleged espionage.