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“T HE IMPOSSIBLE can many times become possible,” reflects Albert Bourla, boss of Pfizer. He is talking about the giant American drugmaker’s speedy development (with BioNTech of Germany) of a vaccine against covid-19. The sentiment also applies to the turnaround in the fortunes of the pharmaceutical industry. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. Before the pandemic Big Pharma was in big trouble. It was widely criticised for investing more in marketing than in research, for pursuing “me too” drugs over novel therapies, and for alleged price-gouging. When...

Virtus confirms appointment of academy manager Saturday, 30 January 2021 Virtus has announced the appointment of Debbie van Biesen as the organisation’s academy manager, a new initiative to develop a global hub of research, training and education. The organisation said Van Biesen will join after seven years of full-time postdoctoral research at KU Leuven in Belgium. She will divide her time across both organisations, leveraging on international and evidenced-based knowledge of elite athletes with intellectual disability and autism. Van Biesen has published more than 25 peer-reviewed scient...