Two antibiotics from Pfizer and Shionogi are to be rolled out by the UK’s NHS in a pioneering subscription deal that hopes to encourage antibiotic R&D by delinking payment from volume of use.

Ahead of the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in early June, analysts at Biomedtracker have highlighted select high-impact late-breaking abstracts that are due to presented, including therapies from AbbVie, Gilead Sciences, Pfizer, Takeda, Amgen, AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo.

2021 saw a record number of novel drug launches and the size of the pipeline topped 20,000 candidates for the first time, new analysis shows, while China came of age as a pharma player.

Ahead of the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in early June, analysts at Biomedtracker have highlighted select high-impact late-breaking abstracts that are due to presented, including therapies from AbbVie, Gilead Sciences, Pfizer, Takeda, Amgen, AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo.

2021 was another record-breaking year for novel product launches as COVID-19 continued to make an impact, but the industry’s response to the pandemic did not fully account for the acceleration seen in this strict measure of R&D productivity.

Pharma’s R&D engine has been firing on all cylinders in the past year – pipeline growth in 2021 stood at nearly twice that for the previous year, pushing the number of products under active development over 20,000 for the first time.