New Therapies for Multiple Myeloma

Faced with data on new drug therapies for multiple myeloma, oncologists are anticipating the potential value of these drugs and considering how access to these interventions may affect treatment paradigms. Treatment strategies in multiple myeloma depend on several variables, including where patients are in disease progression, whether they are eligible for transplants, and what other […]

How Prepared Are Hospitals for the Surge of COVID-19 Patients?

Are hospitals prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic? What’s the outlook on hospital staffing shortages, elective procedures, and disease triage? GLG’s Sarah Lim interviewed Dr. David Shulkin on March 20 for his take. He most recently served as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from 2015 to 2018. Before that, he served as President of Morristown Medical […]

Shelter-in-Place May Not Be Enough to Fight COVID-19, Says Former CDC Doctor

Is the U.S. doing enough to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic? To get some perspective on this question, as well as what to expect from hospitals and whether a vaccine may be available, GLG spoke with Dr. Ali Khan, Dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, a former […]

Where We Are in the Global Response to COVID-19

For a high-level overview of the global fight against COVID-19 and how developments are likely to unfold, GLG VP and Team Lead of GLG’s Healthcare Content team Michael Weissman spoke with the Hon. Mark Dybul, MD, Co-Director of the Center for Global Health Practice and Impact at Georgetown University and former U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, […]

RET and KRAS Targeting in Lung Cancer

The broad paradigm in the treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) involves determining whether a patient has a targetable driver mutation. A mutation affecting the RET gene, as seen in 2 to 3 percent of NSCLC, falls under this category. Currently, there is not an approved treatment with high efficacy for treating RET fusion-positive cancers, […]

COVID-19: A Former City Health Commissioner’s Perspective

The social, economic, and public health repercussions of COVID-19 continue to transform our lives in dramatic ways. On March 18, 2020, GLG spoke with Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency medicine physician and former Commissioner of Health for Baltimore City. Her comments on the impact of COVID-19, edited for clarity and space, appear below. Can you […]

What Will It Take to Develop a Vaccine for the Virus that Causes COVID-19?

Drugmakers, researchers, and other groups are racing against the clock to develop a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. To understand what goes into efforts to develop vaccines, GLG’s Pooja Shah spoke with Luc Debruyne, the former President of Global Vaccines at GSK and a current board member of GreenLight Biosciences and VIB. […]

How Will COVID-19 Affect the Business of U.S. Hospitals?

Across the U.S., at least 3,927 people have tested positive for COVID-19 and at least 68 have died (as of March 13, 2020). What will this pandemic mean for hospitals across the country and their profitability as the number of cases increase? To get a grasp on the situation, Amy Francois of GLG’s credit strategies […]

Watch: COVID-19 Q&A with Dr. Stephen Ostroff

GLG Network Member and former Deputy Director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases at the CDC Dr. Stephen Ostroff speaks at GLG’s New York office live and addresses some of our most pressing questions on COVID-19, and shares his previous experiences dealing with similar worldwide health crises.

Gene Therapy Outlook – The Payor’s Perspective

Gene therapies can help patients with illnesses that either aren’t treatable or require difficult, expensive, or problematic treatments, but also, in many instances, they only need to be given once in a person’s lifetime. It’s this latter element of gene therapy that begs the question: How will insurance companies and/or patients pay for these treatments […]

COVID-19: What We Know So Far February 25

Amid the growing number of cases of COVID-19 in Iran, South Korea, and Italy, VP and Team Lead of GLG’s Healthcare Content Team, Michael Weissman, spoke with Dr. Stephen Ostroff, who served as the Deputy Director of the CDC’s National Center for Infectious Diseases during the SARS outbreak and later served as Acting Commissioner of […]

Gene Therapy: The Manufacturer’s Perspective

The gene therapy field has grown tremendously since 2017, when the first directly administered gene therapy in the U.S., Luxturna, was greenlit by the FDA. In 2018, $9.6 billion was invested globally into the field. These first-of-their-kind therapies work by delivering modified genes directly into a patient using a vector – in many instances, the […]

Speaker Biographies

Hilary Malone PhD, has over 25 years of experience in global drug development, regulatory &government affairs, manufacturing and commercialization within the biopharma industry. Hilary hassignificant board level and executive committee experience including large scale organizationalrestructuring/transformation/integration, major M&A, biotech start-up, capital raising, investorrelations and pre-IPO.​

Hilary is currently CEO of Stylus Medicine, a private genetic medicine biotech company. Previously sheserved as CEO of a Series-A neuroscience company. Prior to these roles, Hilary served as COO & EVP atValo Health Inc., Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP at Sanofi Inc., and Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP atPfizer and Wyeth. Previous experience also includes senior regulatory and drug development roles atReata Pharmaceuticals Inc., AstraZeneca plc and GlaxoSmithKline plc.​

Hilary also serves on the Board of Directors of Hansa Biopharma and Adthera Bio. Hilary holds a PhD inMolecular Neuropharmacology and a BSc in Physiology.

Dr. Thomas Lönngren is Director at his own company PharmaExec Consulting AB. He is the Chairman of the Board of directors at Egetis Therapeutics AB, Sweden. Dr Lönngren also serves as board member at Compass Pathways PLC, London UK and NDA Group, Sweden. He acts as advisor to the following companies and organizations: NDA group, Sweden, Sweden, Artis Venture, San Francisco, US, Fujimoto Japan, Skin2Neuron Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia, US, Special advisor to the Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science (CIRS), London UK. From 2001 until2011, Mr.Lönngren served as the Executive Director of the European Medical Agency. He was previously Deputy General Director of the Swedish Medical Product Agency until 2000. He has a degree in pharmacy and MSc in Social and Regulatory Pharmacy from Uppsala University. He is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Great Britain, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Honorary Doctorate from University of Bath, UK.

Speaker Biographies

Marie-Anne Aymerich

Marie-Anne has built a portfolio of senior advisory and non-executive roles, following a successful international career in the FMCG and Luxury sectors. She is a non-executive director of Haleon, a FTSE100 company listed in 2022 after the demerger from GSK. She is also chairwoman of Haleon Environment and Societal Sustainability committee. She is the executive director of the Pierre Fabre Group where she also sits on the Strategic Committee, and she is a Board Member of The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, one of the world’s most prestigious chamber orchestras. She is also an angel investor and focuses her time and investments on start-ups with the strongest purpose and impact.

Marie-Anne is also a regular lecturer at HEC Paris on purposeful leadership, and she has created a serious game called “Planet Purpose” to upskill people on sustainability and purpose. Throughout her 35year executive career she delivered a strong track-record of business performance and growth in brands and portfolio in both developed and emerging economies.

As a senior leader with Unilever, she led a number of different personal care categories across France, Spain and the USA – including managing the Dove brand worldwide and culminating in leading Unilever’s global Oral Care division. She also worked for LVMH as Brand General Manager of Dior Perfumes and Cosmetics worldwide. Marie-Anne was also Vice-President of Imagine for Margo – Children with Cancer for ten years, a charity she helped found in 2011 with the goal of eradicating children’s cancer. The charity is the #1 charity focused on child cancer in France and has fundraised more than €14m since its creation. Marie-Anne is a graduate from HEC Paris. She is married and has two children aged 29 and 26.

Patrick Jephson

Patrick Jephson is a consultant, journalist, broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author, based in Washington D.C. He is a published authority on corporate and personal branding and crisis communications, addressing conferences worldwide as well as events at the U.S. State Department, the American University and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

With more than twenty-five years’ experience in the government, luxury and family office sectors, Patrick’s portfolio has included globally admired brands as well as national agencies and NGOs. He has also worked on reputation and legacy briefs with European, Middle Eastern and Asian families, including royalty. He now writes, presents, and advises on factual and drama TV programs, appearing on every major American and many international networks. He was recently an expert consultant to the award-winning Netflix series The Crown and provided live commentary on the Coronation of King Charles.

Patrick owes much of his practical communications and protocol experience to Princess Diana, who chose him to be her equerry and only private secretary/chief of staff. He served the Princess for eight years, responsible for all aspects of her public life, global humanitarian initiatives, and private organization. Having worked for an internationally high-profile woman (and as the father of two professionally successful daughters) he feels a special affinity for cross-cultural, gender and perception issues.

Patrick was born and raised in Ireland and holds a master’s degree in political science from Cambridge University. As an officer in the British Royal Navy, he served all over the world before being selected for royal duty. He is a citizen of the U.K., U.S.A., Ireland, and Canada.