Featuring CEO Interview with Francois R. Martelet, Chief Executive Officer, NetScientific Plc
Volume 3, Number 3
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CEO Leadership Series: Francois R. Martelet, Chief Executive Officer, NetScientific Plc
French by birth, based in London and doing business in the San Francisco Bay-area biotech community, Dr. Francois R. Martelet brings two decades of global experience in the biotech industry to NetScientific Plc, a biomedical health care technology company that funds and develops diagnostic and digital health technologies…
A small biotech start-up in Princeton, NJ was quickly growing and needed extra support in the clinical operations area as soon as possible. Specifically, the company needed a Senior Director of Clinical Operations with an MD and cancer immunotherapy experience, but they did not have the manpower to take on a search of this magnitude. Ashton Tweed…
Women in the Life Sciences – More Than Just a Numbers Game
The gender equality debate is a common discussion in all industries, however, the conversation about females in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers, is notorious. Fortunately, the life sciences has known female leaders to rise to the top and their presence is growing. But improving female involvement is not just an issue of equal…
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FierceBiotech’s Most Influential People in Biopharma Today
Every year, FierceBiotech puts together a list of people that could play major roles in the evolution of the biopharma industry. This doesn’t necessarily mean that these people are successful. Failure and discord can change the industry as much as success and consensus. Here is the list of individuals…
A global study by InterbrandHealth identifies the top biopharma companies that are addressing the needs of healthcare professionals, payers, and policymakers. These top 10 companies are ranked by “qualifying the industry’s definition of value through brand, then quantifying the corporate brand’s contribution to…
The Lemelson-MIT Student Program is a nationwide search for the most inventive college students. See 2016’s winners: Catalin Voss of Stanford University is developing an emotional learning aid for children with autism based on smart glasses. An individual with autism wearing the glasses automatically recognizes emotions…
6 Pharma Ads From Past 15 Yrs Were Just What the Dr. Ordered
Pharma advertising is difficult to say the least. It’s not easy to engage an audience about an illness, list side effects, and satisfy the FDA all at once. As part of Adweek’s CMO Report on pharmaceutical advertising, they looked back at some of the more notable creative executions in pharma over the past 15 years. See who made…
California legislators recently passed a bill to recognize April 7 on an ongoing basis as “Biotechnology Day” in California. April 7 is the date in 1976 when Genentech Inc. was born. Biochemists Herb Boyer of the University of California, San Francisco, and Stanford University’s Stanley Cohen had developed the technology to clone genetically engineered…
Big Pharma doesn’t exactly have a great rep, but GlaxoSmithKline is helping change that. Andrew Witty announced the firm will no longer file patents in 85 of the world’s poorest nations and will grant licenses in 51 lower-middle income countries for generic manufacturers to make…
A team of scientists unveiled a new tree of life, a diagram that depicts the evolution of all living things. In recent years, Jillian F. Banfield of the University of California, Berkeley and her colleagues have been gathering DNA from many environments and assembling the genomes of…
