As the newest CEO within Big Pharma, Pascal Soriot was destined for a severe grilling over his strategic plans for troubled AstraZeneca PLC during its third-quarter sales and earnings calls on Oct. 25.
Soriot gave away some tidbits, including an understandable desire to change the company's marketing strategy for the antithrombotic Brilinta (ticagrelor), known as Brilique in Europe, whose sales have been disappointing...