An interactive look at recent executive-level company changes and promotions in the biopharma, medical device and diagnostics industries.

Luciano Rossetti, head of global research and development at Merck KGaA, believes the mid-sized pharma is well on its way to becoming a global immuno-oncology specialist. He discusses in-house innovation, the company’s recent IO alliance with GSK and the next wave of success that is beginning to swell across the cancer drug development community.

Simon Moroney has led the German antibody technology biotech MorphoSys since 1992. Having taken the decision to retire just as the firm is entering the next phase in its evolution, he explains to In Vivo why the time is right.

An interactive look at recent executive-level company changes and promotions in the biopharma, medical device and diagnostics industries.

Ground-breaking M&A deals were largely absent from medtech industry schedules in 2018 – Boston’s BTG deal aside – but that does not mean consolidation of the medtech industry is slowing down. M&A deal numbers have been steady of late, even if aggregate deal value has declined in recent years. Digital transformation is a catalyst for a growing number of sector-transforming transactions.

In this first installment of VC Playbook, a new series profiling venture capital groups in biopharma and medtech, In Vivo talks to Antoine Papiernik, managing partner and chair of Sofinnova Partners – Europe’s largest and oldest VC devoted to the life sciences, with €2 billion under management.