BTG Pharma Quiz September 2016

Theresa May in Britain 

Angela Merkel in Germany 

Hillary Clinton in USA 

Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland

Mary Barra at General Motors 

Louise Makin at BTG 

 

Is this the New World Order led by women?

 

Add one more to the list….

 

Emma Walmsley will become the most powerful woman in the Pharma industry when she takes over as CEO in March 2017. 

 

She was appointed as CEO-designate on Sepetmber 20th 2016.

 

Which company will she become CEO of?

In September 2016, the FDA approved Medtronic’s MiniMed 670G hybrid closed looped system. 

 

This was the first FDA-approved device that is intended to automatically monitor glucose (sugar) and provide appropriate basal insulin doses with little or no input from the user.

 

It works by measuring glucose levels every five minutes and automatically administering or withholding insulin via the insulin pump strapped to the body. 

 

What is this divide often referred to as 

On 9th September 2016, BTG announced the launch of X, a Radiation Safety Programme, designed to reduce the risk of radiation exposure when performing selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) with Therasphere.

 

Therasphere is a BTG product that uses 90-Yttrium glass microspheres to deliver high doses of radiation to liver tumors while sparing normal tissue.

 

X is an online resource featuring a range of educational tools and materials on radiation protection, health and safety. It offers advice and guidance on reducing exposure levels for healthcare professionals and patients pre, during and post procedure.

 

X is

Monsanto is an American agrochemical company that is consistently crowned as the “most evil corporation on Earth!”

 

Despite its significant positive contributions to chemistry and biotechnology, it is viewed as a company that remains focused on developing innovative ways to harm the planet and its people.

 

The most controversial of its products include 

 

1) Agent Orange - deadly toxin used during the Vietnamese war. Linked to birth defects

2) Roundup - a herbicide more deadly than DDT.  Linked to birth defects and reproduction failure 

3) Zyklon B gas - co-developed this gas that was used to kill Jews during the Holocaust 

 

the list goes on…..

 

In September 2016, X announced its plans to acquire Monsanto for $66 billion

 

To remove itself of Monsanto’s stigma, the new company will drop the Monsanto name. 

 

X is the largest pharmaceutical company in Germany 

 

X is 

What are GMPs?

 

The formal definition can be found on the website of any regulatory agency - But in very basic terms, GMPs are a set of practices that help to prevent errors, mix-ups and contamination in the manufacturing site to ensure that patients receive safe and effective medicinal products. 

 

We all know that GMPs is the abbreviation for Good Manufacturing Practices.. 

 

Nowadays, however, we often hear the terms cGMP and GAMP

 

What do the “c” and “A” stand for 

Every year, the Harvard Business Review releases a list of the best-performing CEOs.

 

In 2014, Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon topped the list.  

 

In both 2015 and 2016, the best-performing CEO was Lars Rebein Sørenson, a CEO of a pharma company

 

On 1st September 2016, Mr. Sørenson announced that he would be stepping down in January 2017. 

 

Mr. Sørenson is the CEO of which pharma company?

magine seeing your child suffering from malaria or pneumonia or tuberculosis. 

 

But it's OK, you think, because you bought medicine to combat the disease from the pharmacy.

 

Now imagine what it must be like to see your child die nonetheless because the drugs you bought were fake.

 

That is the brutal reality of the multi-billion dollar global trade in counterfeit drugs.

 

To combat this scourge of counterfeit drugs, the global Pharma Industry introduced the Serialization project. 

 

In this project, every individual saleable unit of pharmaceutical drugs or medical devices will have a unique identifier (a 2D data matrix code) that can be scanned at any point along the supply chain to verify the product’s authenticity. 

 

All manufacturers of medicinal products must comply to the serialization standards if they want to sell their products. 

 

In UK and most of the EU, the deadline to comply to this directive is