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Most CEOs/MDs at leading listed foreign and domestic drug firms in India took home bigger pay packages in 2021-22, a period that also saw several top-level exits including at Abbott, Pfizer and Sanofi. Scrip examines some of the wider trends around executive compensation.

The promise of TIGIT as an oncology target in combination with PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors has prompted an influx of investment into anti-TIGIT agents and five agents are already in advanced clinical trials. That initial enthusiasm has been dampened as of late, after disappointing Phase III data. Investors are hoping that 2023 will be the year that restores hope in the anti-TIGIT pipeline. 

More foreign pharma firms, this time Sanofi and GSK, are reorganizing sales and marketing efforts accompanied by layoffs in India. Scrip talks to experts about what’s driving the right-sizing and the wider trend.