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EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS IN THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY Pharma POOL John I. COOPER Former GlaxoSmithKline VP Brings Global Manufacturing and Operational Management Expertise to ICN ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc. has appointed John I. Cooper as executive VP of global manufacturing and supply. I...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 22, 2008
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Regulatory Submissions: Improving the Process

BY TAREN GROM IMPROVING E-STRATEGIES The inability to effectively manage complex submission documentation for new drug applications (NDAs) and other regulated dossiers is a major factor in slowing the time it takes to bring a product to market. These delays cost the lifescience industry millions ...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 21, 2008
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Oncology

As investments in cancer R&D stay high, waves of innovative new treatments are on the horizon.
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Alan Holmer — The Industry's Champion

THE INDUSTRY’S CHAMPION BY KIM RIBBINK After a weighty career in politics and the law, and now seven years into his leadership position at the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Alan F. Holmer is positioning the organization to address criticisms of the industry and convey to t...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 21, 2008
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E-Media

E-MEDIA NEW ELECTRONIC AND WEBBASED APPLICATIONS, SITES, AND TECHNOLOGIES SoftWatch and InfoMedics DELIVER INTEGRATED MARKETING SOLUTION SoftWatch Inc.and InfoMedics Inc.have launched a joint solution for optimizing patient-fulfillment programs executed simultaneously across multiple communica...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 21, 2008
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Learning to Work With E-Learning

Learning to work with BY ELISABETH PENA As technology continues to make highspeed communication a reality, the industry is beginning to take advantage of these tools to teach and train. Using the Internet in combination with traditional teaching principles, companies can span great distances and ...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 17, 2008
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Spiros Jamas — A Chemical Reaction

DR.SPIROS JAMAS is leading Enanta Pharmaceuticals by tapping the company’s primary strength in its integration of chemistry and biology to tackle new targets and specific drugdevelopment challenges from all possible angles right from the start. He is relying on the hardwon lessons learned from hi...
By Kim Ribbink • April 17, 2008
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Talent Pool

Pharma POOL Anne NOBLES Dr.Thomas VERHOEVEN Lilly Announces Personnel Changes Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, has promoted Anne Nobles to VP of corporate affairs from Strattera product team leader. Ms. Nobles has replaced Deborah Steelman, who resigned for personal reasons. In her new role, she leads go...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 17, 2008
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E-Media

58 A ug u s t 20 03 PharmaVOICE EMEDIA NEW ELECTRONIC AND WEBBASED APPLICATIONS, SITES, AND TECHNOLOGIES EDocCompliance for the Oracle platform, recently launched by Qumas, is a readytovalidate, Web based application that manages the full life cycle of regulatorycontrolled documentation without t...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 17, 2008
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Biotech Life-Cycle Management

10 J u n e 20 03 PharmaVOICE THE MANAGEMENTTEAM … CAROLCHERKIS,PH.D. Life sciences consultant,NewCap Partners Inc., Los Angeles; NewCap Partners is a private investment banking firm that focuses on the finance needs of middlemarket companies.For more information, visit newcap.com. TILLMAN U.GERNG...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 17, 2008
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The Emergence of the Bioscience Cluster

36 J un e 2 003 PharmaVOICE ll drug development is local, to borrow from a popular phrase. Although pharma and biotech companies have to be focused on global issues, they still are firmly rooted in the commu nities in which they reside. State and local governments recognize the benefits to the lo...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 16, 2008
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Striking a Balance for Innovation

26 J u n e 20 03 PharmaVOICE INNOVATION Striking a Balance for BY DENISE MYSHKO Recently proposed regulations strive to restore the balance between protecting the intellectual assets related to innovation by pharmaceutical manufacturers and the opportunity to bring lowercost generic products to m...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 16, 2008
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Letter from the Editor

3 PharmaVOICE J un e 2003 PUBLISHER Lisa Banket EDITOR Taren Grom CREATIVE DIRECTOR Marah Walsh DIRECTOR OF SALES Darlene Kwiatkowski MANAGING EDITOR Denise Myshko CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Elisabeth Pena Kim Ribbink Lynda Sears Copyright 2003 by PharmaLinx LLC, Titusville, NJ Printed in the U.S.A. Vo...
By Taren Grom • April 16, 2008
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60 J u l y 20 03 PharmaVOICE Pharma POOL Lynn BAER Dr. Manny BORREGO Novo Nordisk Announces Two Key Appointments for U.S. Medical Department Novo Nordisk, a focused healthcare compa ny and leader in diabetes care, with U.S. headquar ters in Princeton, N.J., has promoted Lynn Baer to senior direct...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 10, 2008
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A View on Advertising — A Shifting Landscape

6 Ma r ch 20 08 VIEW on Advertising THE FORUM The advertising focus may be moving away from center — traditional media such as television and print — as emerging media, such as Web 2.0, and alternative vehicles such as Pod casts, search engines, etc., begin to establish a firmer foothold in the m...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 24, 2008
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PharmaTrax

76 S e p t e m b e r 200 3 PharmaVOICE Johnson & Johnson is TOP PHARMA COMPANY IN LONGTERM CARE Johnson & Johnson has been selected as the best overall pharmaceutical company by longte rm care (LTC) pharmacists participating in Verispan’s spring 2003 Nursing Home PharmacyProvider/Con sult...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 19, 2008
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The Trials of Youth: Bringing Children Into Clinical Research

42 S e p t e mb e r 2003 PharmaVOICE Trialsof Youth The After the fall of the pediatric rule, Congress is moving forward to provide the Food and Drug Administration with the authority to mandate the testing of prescription drugs in children. B R I N G I N G C H I L D R E N I N T O C L I N I C A L...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 19, 2008
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On the Calendar

March 1718 3rd Imaging in Preclinical &Clinical Drug Development San Diego For more information, contact Vivian Frankel, GTCBio, at 6262566405, email [email protected], or visit gtcbio.com. March 1718 The Inaugural U.S.Conference on Comparator Studies Doubletree Hotel,Philadelphia For...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 2, 2008
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E-Media

NEW ELECTRONIC AND WEBBASED APPLICATIONS, SITES, AND TECHNOLOGIES Edge Dynamics has added a flexible desktop module within its Demand Management Suite that offers lifesciences manufacturers a way to easily monitor and analyze channel activity data for their products. The Edge Dynamics Demand Dash...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 2, 2008
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What's New

WHAT’S NEW NEW HEALTHCARERELATED PRODUCTS, SERVICES, AND COMPANIES HealthEd Group has launched HealthEd Encore, which operates as a standalone agency, in response to increas ing client demand for educational patient marketing campaigns. HealthEd Encore offers a fullrange of ser vices, including c...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 2, 2008
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PharmaTrax

Best practices in planning and targeting and conducting office calls, as well as management of relationships, samples, programs, and salesforces are explored. These include the use of automated for mulary data and thoughtleader information to develop sales messages that anticipate formulary restr...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 2, 2008
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Talent Pool

Executive Appointments and Promotions Pharma POOL Aaron D. Berg Mark A. Glickman Oscient Names VPs to Head Key Growth Functions Oscient Pharmaceuticals, Waltham, Mass., has appointed two senior leaders with extensive cardiovascular experience. Aaron D. Berg has been named VP of marketing and Mark...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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Biogenerics at a Crossroads

By Cynthia Borda Over the past few years, several forces have begun to converge that will likely shift the entire biomarket’s dynamics. Patents of top-selling biotechnology products have lost or will lose patent protection in the next half dozen years (see chart on page 46 for more information). ...
By Cynthia Borda • Jan. 2, 2008
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Marketplace

Featured Product and Service Showcases /alert Marketing Altum American Medical Association Campbell Alliance Chandler Chicco Agency CommonHealth Donahoe Purohit Miller Advertising EvoLogue The Hal Lewis Group InfoMedics Inc. Innovex Medical Communications Intasol Group LLC MBS/Vox M...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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E-Media

PharmaLinx Launches Industry Web Portal Professionals who operate in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical-device sectors, as well as those who provide services and tools to the industry, now have a single source to find targeted information related to their fields. The new portal, Acces...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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DIA 2007 -- Annual Conference

DIA Addresses extreme topics The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Drug Information Association DIA 2007 — Annual Conference The Drug Information Association’s 43rd annual meeting featured 450 sessions and more than 1,000 speakers. Industry Thought Leaders Raise their VOICE at DIA Podcasts BBK Worldwide...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008