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Duncan Emerton

Duncan Emerton

Healthcare Management, Clinical Pharmacology
New York, New York, United States of America

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Duncan has been working in the pharma industry for over 15 years and has gained experience across a broad range of disciplines including pre-clinical and clinical R&D, sales, marketing, medical affairs, competitive intelligence, management consulting and business analysis. Duncan currently heads up FirstWord’ s syndicated reports business where he’s responsible for delivering future-focused research and analysis across a wide range of issues. Duncan’s current passion is biosimilars, a subject which he has been following since 2006 when the first biosimilar was approved in Europe. He is a regular presenter and Chair at biosimilar-focused conferences, and has contributed several articles and book chapters on key issues in the biosimilars industry including LCM, profitability, commercialisation and strategy development. Before joining FirstWord in October 2013, Duncan worked at Datamonitor Healthcare where he was Director and Biosimilars Practice Lead for Datamonitor Healthcare’s Consulting business.

In his spare time Duncan plays golf, likes to cook and spend as much time as he can with his three beautiful daughters. He also runs a blog focused on biosimilars called The Biosimilarz Blog (www.biosimilarz.com). Duncan holds a BSc (Hons) in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Surrey and a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Kent.
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