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Partners With Vision - A Discussion on the Future of Pharma

No single person can accurately predict the future of the pharmaceutical industry. Unprecedented competition, a weak economy, pricing pressures, public scrutiny and ever-increasing regulation characterise the current environment. In the face of these business challenges, some organisations are achieving exciting innovations while others' efforts have been stifled. Many companies are surmounting these obstacles and forging new partnerships, providing significant scientific insights to the medical community and producing lifesaving treatments to patients. However, many more companies are struggling to meet the industry's unmet challenges. While no road map exists to guide pharmaceutical companies through today's market pressures or to help them anticipate tomorrow's challenges, a vision of how the pharmaceutical industry will develop could provide benefits to the sector.

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By William Powlett Smith, Audit Partner and Leader of UK Health Sciences at Ernst & Young LLP

William Powlett Smith is Audit Partner and Leader of UK Health Sciences at Ernst & Young LLP. William is well known for his extensive work with biotechnology and pharmaceutical businesses and his strong international connections, particularly with Ernst & Young's offices on the east and west coasts of the USA and in Germany.

He is now the Partner responsible for the UK firm's Health Sciences practice. Until October 1999 William was a member of the BIA's Board of Directors, and of the BIA Sub-Committee responsible for drafting the BIA's Code of Best Practice. He was a contributor to, and Co-ordinating Partner for, the production of Ernst & Young's 1998, 1999 and 2000 European Life Sciences Reports.

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