Dear Biographer reader, since our last edition there have been some changes at Unilabs – York Bioanalytical Solutions. Firstly the new branding for the combination of the Copenhagen and York laboratories has been officially unveiled. Secondly there is a new Editor for Biographer, with David Browne stepping into the breach. There has also been a good deal of upheaval in our industry, with the continued announcements of R&D facilities being downsized or closed altogether, with pipelines still not showing the strength expected and with the number of suitable candidates entering the later stages of development being disappointing.