{"id":31361,"date":"2026-03-13T10:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/31361\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:53:18","slug":"hunting-for-biopharmas-innovation-sweet-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/31361\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunting for biopharma\u2019s innovation sweet spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Over the past ten years, the FDA has approved around 500 new drugs. The backstories and impacts of a few of these are well known and celebrated, with a Nobel Prize for PD1 blockers and massive profits for fat-busting GLP-1 receptor agonists. But thousands of scientists toiled away on other long and winding journeys to unlock new medicines, to much less acclaim. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.ca\/books\/Breakthrough\/Dr-William-Pao\/9780861547340\" data-track=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.ca\/books\/Breakthrough\/Dr-William-Pao\/9780861547340\" data-track-category=\"body text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Breakthrough: The Quest for Life-Changing Medicines<\/a>, William Pao shines a light on eight drug discovery adventures to highlight the unsung heroes of biopharmaceutical innovation, illustrating how novel drugs are discovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the past ten years, the FDA has approved around 500 new drugs. The backstories and impacts of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[4091,336,6719,584,17088,17089,17087,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-31361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-roche","8":"tag-biomedicine","9":"tag-biotechnology","10":"tag-cancer-research","11":"tag-general","12":"tag-medicinal-chemistry","13":"tag-molecular-medicine","14":"tag-pharmacology-toxicology","15":"tag-roche"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116221496773349033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}