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Mike Rea

CEO, IDEA Pharmaceuticals

A self-styled innovation protagonist/antagonist and “geek,” Rea is an established author who has appeared consistently in our Power List since 2017. He is the creator of the annual Pharmaceutical Innovation Index, and also a senior fellow at FasterCures (a Milken Institute Center for accelerating medical research); an advisor with BioEthics International; strategic innovation advisor at Nanoform; advisor at OneHealth/FidoCure; and the owner and chief musical officer of Medical Records – an indie record label.

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The Power List 2022 focuses on the top 10 VIPs in three key categories of medicine making

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Welcome to our annual celebration of the great and inspirational minds that contribute to the development and manufacture of new medicinal products

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The Power List 2020

Celebrating the great minds that bring us innovation in small molecules, biopharmaceuticals, and advanced medicine.

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The Power List 2019

Breakthroughs at the bench, novel technologies and groundbreaking policies and regulation have helped the pharma industry grow from strength to strength. After months of collating reader nominations and judging overseen by a panel of industry experts, we proudly present The Medicine Maker 2019 Power List, featuring 100 of the industry’s pioneers across four categories: Industry Influencers, Business Captains, Masters of the Bench, and Champions of Change.

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The World’s Top 100 Medicine Makers

Bringing new drugs to patients is an incredibly difficult task that involves numerous indispensable actors – from pioneering entrepreneurs and CEOs, to industry experts, to dedicated researchers, to regulators who keep everyone on the right tracks.

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Our Top 100 into 4 categories

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