Development Pipeline

Ensuring Innovation in Diseases Affecting Women

When women seek medical care, they may be up against different obstacles from men.

What's Next? Discovery, Treatments and Cures in the Biopharmaceutical Pipeline

For many patients, the biopharmaceutical pipeline is their best hope for a cure or a longer, healthi…

Research Doesn’t End On A Medicine’s Approval

Research on a medicine doesn't end on the initial approval by the FDA. Eli Lilly and Company's chief…

Cumulative Steps, Big Gains for Patients

Advances in treating debilitating diseases are often not the result of one single breakthrough, but…

How the War on Cancer is Evolving

The progress we have made may only foreshadow a much more intensive fight against cancer that is lik…

Washington is considering policy changes that could threaten innovation

New policy proposals in Washington threaten to hamstring investment in innovation and jeopardize bre…

Researcher Profile: Roland Kolbeck

Dr. Kolbeck led a team of researchers to develop what has become AstraZeneca’s first respiratory bio…

Researcher Profile: Dr. Marie-Claire Peakman

Dr. Marie-Claire Peakman always knew she wanted to make a difference in the world.

Researcher Profile: Dr. Leonardo Salese, MD

A New Era In Treatments For Migraine

Reducing unnecessary suffering resulting from migraine is beneficial to both individual patients and…

A New Era in Cervical Cancer Treatment

January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. Every day, scientists continue to research new ways to t…

Tackling Neurological Disorders in New Ways

Chronic pain. Alzheimer's disease. Multiple Sclerosis. Brain tumors. These are some of the most well…

Researcher Profile: Andrea Fanjul

For Dr. Andrea Fanjul and a team of scientists at Takeda, it’s the patients and their stories that b…

Researcher Profile: Christina Kiley

Through her roles at Eli Lilly and Company, Dr. Christina Kiley developed a strong understanding of…

Reflecting on the Progress in Managing Diabetes

While the economic toll of the disease remains high, our ability to understand and treat diabetes ha…

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: The Fight for New Treatments Continues

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which each year calls attention to the condition that one…

Why Has Research into Alzheimer's Disease Been So Hard?

Why, when we have seen such progress in our ability to treat other diseases, such as cancer, diabete…

A New Era for Vaccines

National Immunization Awareness Month, sponsored every August by the National Public Health Informat…

Vaccines: Cutting Health Care Costs While Saving Countless Lives

In the United States, 16 diseases are now preventable as a result of childhood vaccines, resulting i…

Destroying the Cancer Threat

It is sometimes said that after a researcher has studied one cancer patient, he or she is left with…

World IP Day: How Intellectual Property Protections Spur Innovation

Every April 26, we celebrate World Intellectual Property Day as a way to remember the critical role…

Tackling Neurological Disorders in New Ways

Chronic pain. Alzheimer's disease. Multiple Sclerosis. Brain tumors. These are some of the most well…

Study Shows 35 Years of Progress in Treating Infectious Disease

Advances in medicine have helped lower the mortality rate from infectious disease by nearly 19 perce…

Breaking Through Depression

The latest treatments for mental illness are helping patients live more fulfilling lives.

Rare Disease by the Numbers

Today is Rare Disease Day, which serves as a time to recognize the more than 30 million Americans li…

Making Breakthroughs in Heart Disease

Since 1921, heart disease has been the leading cause of death in the United States.

Researcher Profile: Wayne Drevets

Dr. Drevets is a scientist at Janssen Research & Development, LLC, one of the Janssen Pharmaceut…

Researcher Profile: Brian Johns

Dr. Brian Johns is currently the vice president of HIV Research at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), where he l…

Today Is World AIDS Day, A Moment to Remember How Far We’ve Come

Today, a 20-year-old with HIV can expect to live to the age of 70. Few diseases have seen similar pr…

Innovations in Mental Health

Nearly one in five American adults experience some form of mental illness in any given year. America…

Improving Access to Treatment: Peggy Symons

Peggy Symons lives every single day advocating for more and better access to medications, not only f…

Fighting for Reform: The Honorable Steven Leifman

The Honorable Steven Leifman worked to transform the criminal justice system of Florida to better he…

Rethinking Psychiatric Treatment: Dr. Husseini Manji

Today, Dr. Husseini Manji is the global therapeutic head for neuroscience at Janssen. In this role,…

Battling Cancer Together

At age 24, medical student Matt Hiznay was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer.

A Major Blood Cancer: Leukemia

Thanks to the work of biopharmaceutical researchers, newly developed medicines that can target cance…

A Critical Quest: Working Toward Better Treatments for Brain Cancer

Glioblastoma is the most aggressive form of brain cancer, and one that impacts more than 12,000 Amer…

A Pipeline of Promise: Immuno-oncology

We are in a new era of medicine, powered in part by the advancements and innovations being made in t…

More Than 240 Immuno-oncology Treatments in Development to Fight Cancer

The need for new cancer treatments is more important than ever, and America's biopharmaceutical comp…

Researching Melanoma: Progress Emerging from Years of Setbacks

Between 1998 and 2014, there were 96 unsuccessful drugs and 7 approved drugs for melanoma.

Scientific Advances Fuel Personalized Medicine

Advancements in science and technology are changing the way we study disease, develop drugs and pres…

High Cholesterol: Meeting Unmet Need for A Deadly Chronic Condition

The introduction of statin therapy nearly 30 years ago transformed the treatment of high cholesterol…

A New Way to Fight Cancer

It used to be science fiction. Harnessing your body's own immune system to fight cancer. But what wa…

A Veteran's Victory Over Cancer

Within a year of retiring from the Air Force in 2003, Corneliussen-James "C.J." was diagnosed with s…

Helping Diabetes Patients Thrive

Diabetes is a serious condition that effects more than 30 million Americans. While complications of…