Formycon has become the latest firm to announce a new CEO, after similar moves at Orion and Strides. Meanwhile, Gedeon Richter has made management changes and a new director has joined Coherus.

In light of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Scrip looks at data to gauge if manufacturing partners for COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V or Light, in India, China and Korea could be left holding unsold inventory earmarked for exports

While the Medicines Patent Pool has sub-licensed Paxlovid to multiple Indian firms, it isn’t approved in the country yet. It will get there, but molnupiravir’s sales might give an indication of what is in store for Pfizer’s oral antiviral COVID-19 treatment post a lost opportunity with vaccine Comirnaty.

The $1m-$10m penalties prescribed on erring global manufacturers in the US COMPETES Act will create quality differentiators, Strides CEO R Ananthanarayanan believes. He also discusses the potential that Mark Cuban’s firm holds for Indian companies and Strides' evaluation of upcoming HIV therapies.