The company laid out plans at J.P. Morgan to reach revenues of $5bn by 2025, focusing on already marketed products and its pipeline plans.

Chaos wrought by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. A heavy workload and continuing resource constraints at the European Medicines Agency. Nonetheless, a record number of novel drugs and vaccines were cleared for marketing in the EU last year.

The company is aiming for an outcomes-based payment model in the US, while it is confident the gene therapy will fare better than some others have in Europe.

The emergence and rapid spread of the Omicron variant has kept COVID-19 firmly in the headlines but the biopharma industry has had plenty on its plate on top of tackling the pandemic. Scrip has taken a look back at five of the biggest non-COVID-19 story themes of 2021 in no particular order.