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Last Word
Word Building Strong Partnerships John Gargiulo, President and CEO of Daiichi Sankyo Inc., talks about how a philanthropic gift 100 years ago led to a global collaboration for drug development. PV: What is Daiichi Sankyo’s connection to Washington, D.C.’s cherry trees? Gargiulo: One hundred year...
By Carolyn Gretton • April 27, 2012 -
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Talent Pool
Talent Pool executive appointments and promotions in the healthcare industry By Carolyn Gretton Pharmaceutical POOL Dr. Charlotte KREMER Astellas Names Global Medical Affairs Head Charlotte Kremer, M.D., has joined Astellas Pharma as head of the global medical affairs organization. Dr. Kremer wa...
By Carolyn Gretton • April 27, 2012 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineOncology R&D
Cancer research remains a prime focus for the industry and often leads to pharma’s most impactful breakthroughs.
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Tools of the Trade
Tools of the Trade New electronic and web-based applications, sites, and technologies By Carolyn Gretton New Tool from HealthSTAR Provides Virtual Bridge Between KOLs, HCPs Trend: New advances in digital platforms are allowing for the capture of peer-to-peer programs via a digital platform that ...
By Carolyn Gretton • April 27, 2012 -
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What's New
What’s New New healthcare-related products, services, and companies By Carolyn Gretton CAHG Joins Forces With TBWAWorldHealth Trend: Alliances among global communications companies aim to help healthcare clients in major and pharmerging markets to create a healthier world. CAHG, a healthcare comm...
By Carolyn Gretton • April 27, 2012 -
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Competitive Intelligence and Strategy in Today's Environment
s the industry experiences a myriad of new pressures, many of its tried-and-true business practices are shifting to meet new challenges, and the world of competitive intelligence (CI) is no exception. Some in the industry are predicting that not only will CI soon be defined differently, but its r...
By Robin Robinson • March 26, 2012 -
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Pharma 3.0
As the industry evolves to address a new ecosystem within the complex and global drug development and commercialization arena, companies will need to be open to using new technologies, thinking, and processes to make healthcare more sustainable, affordable, and accessible; improve the efficiency ...
By PharmaVoice Team • Feb. 26, 2012 -
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Final Phase Goal: Maximize Uptake While Speeding to Launch
In every phase of drug development today, processes are more complex and more costly than ever and the drive to reduce time and expenditure is more critical. In today’s ever-changing marketplace, this holds true especially for the last stages of the process: registration, launch, and postlaunch. ...
By PharmaVoice Team • Feb. 26, 2012 -
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New Models for Early Development
The number of drugs entering Phase I fell 47% and the number of drugs entering Phase II trials fell 53%, according to 2011 Pharmaceutical R&D Factbook complied by CMR International. Industry experts say there is a trend toward conducting fewer, more complex early-phase studies that often incl...
By Denise Myshko • Feb. 26, 2012 -
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Achieving Value from Discovery and Preclinical Endeavors
The need to increase value and productivity throughout the development process has never been more critical. R&D expenditure continued to drop in 2010 to an estimated three-year low of $68 billion, and drug success rates continue to show the declining trends of the past decade, according to t...
By Denise Myshko • Feb. 26, 2012 -
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Molecule to Market - Along the Continuum
According to the most recent report from Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, it still takes about 10 to 15 years on average for an experimental drug to travel from the lab to U.S. patients. Only five in 5,000 compounds that enter preclinical testing make it to human testing. Only one ...
By Taren Grom • Feb. 26, 2012 -
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Last Word
Moving Dermatology Forward William Griffing, President and General Manager at Bayer HealthCare’s Dermatology Unit, discusses the shifting business model in the dermatology specialty segment. PV: How does changing the company’s name from Intendis Inc. to Bayer HealthCare (BHC) shift the company’...
By William Griffing • Feb. 26, 2012 -
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Talent Pool
Pharmaceutical POOL Dr. Anders EKBLOM Dr. Briggs MORRISON AstraZeneca Bolsters R&D Leadership Global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has tapped Anders Ekblom, M.D., to build and lead the science and technology integration office within the company’s R&D organization. In addition to th...
By Carolyn Gretton • Feb. 26, 2012 -
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What's New
New Healthcare-related Products, Services, and Companies Featured Briefs: Kantar Health Focuses on Cancer Patients’ Healthcare Decision-Making Aerpio Therapeutics Makes Debut In other news… Inspiration Biopharmaceuticals Moves Corporate Headquarters AROUND THE GLOBE Kantar Health, a healthcare-fo...
By Carolyn Gretton • Feb. 26, 2012 -
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What's Ahead for Biosimilars
Denise Myshko Uncertainty lies ahead for the biosimilar market, as manufacturers await FDA guidance. Biosimilars could represent a multi-billion dollar market in the United States, although some questions remain, including the uptake by physicians and payers, pricing of biosimilars, and how the F...
By Denise Myshko • Jan. 27, 2012 -
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Digital Patient-Centric Communications: Listen and Learn
Learning to listen and listening to learn are critical to a successful social networking marketing plan. While the buzzword in marketing these days is patient-centric, the industry still struggles with shifting its focus from products to consumers. Years of pushing product messaging out into the ...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 27, 2012 -
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Last Word
Creating Jobs in the Industry Safi Bahcall, Ph.D., CEO, Synta Pharmaceuticals, discusses how the extension of the R&D tax credit for life-sciences companies can accelerate job creation. PV: What do you think employment within the industry will look like in 2012? Bahcall: As the U.S. economy...
By Safi Bahcall • Jan. 27, 2012 -
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Talent Pool
executive appointments and promotions in the healthcare industry By Carolyn Gretton Pharmaceutical POOL Aaron BERG Essentialis Names CEO Essentialis, a pharmaceutical company focused on a novel medicine for the treatment of cardiovascular and metabolic disease, has promoted Aaron Berg to CEO, fro...
By Carolyn Gretton • Jan. 27, 2012 -
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Tools of the Trade
New electronic and web-based applications, sites, and technologies By Carolyn Gretton New Tool from HRM Aims to Improve Medication Adherence, Patient Outcomes Trend: A growing number of healthcare providers are using intuitive technological tools to connect directly with patients to provide info...
By Carolyn Gretton • Jan. 26, 2012 -
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Making a Difference
Taren Grom Dr. Brad Thompson, Executive Chairman, CEO, and President of Oncolytics Biotech Inc., is excited about the opportunities that his company and the biotech field in general can have to make transformative changes in the standard of care for patients. Dr. Brad Thompson has a personal con...
By Robin Robinson • Dec. 22, 2011 -
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Forecasting Pharma's Future
Forecasting Pharma’s Future Denise Myshko Given the volatility of today’s financial landscape, companies, more than ever, need a robust forecasting strategy that is clear, effective, and accurate. As companies seek to negotiate the volatility of emerging markets, the uncertainties of healthcare ...
By Denise Myshko • Dec. 22, 2011 -
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Multichannel Measurement: It's Not All About ROI
Robin Robinson Measuring the effectiveness of every channel now available — from traditional to nontraditional, online and off — is at best difficult, especially as advances in technology and social media networks continually create new ways to reach the consumer, and, at worst, impossible when i...
By PharmaVoice Team • Dec. 22, 2011 -
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Talent Pool
executive appointments and promotions in the healthcare industry By Carolyn Gretton Pharmaceutical POOL Alex AZAR Maria CROWE Dave RICKS Lilly Makes Management Changes Lilly has announced a number of key management appointments. Alex Azar has been promoted to president of Lilly USA, the company’s...
By Carolyn Gretton • Dec. 22, 2011 -
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Tools of the Trade
New electronic and web-based applications, sites, and technologies By Carolyn Gretton ImpactRx Adds Tablet Detailing to Analytics Offerings Trend: Growing physician adoption of tablet computers is prompting pharma brand teams to design and execute messaging strategies that more effectively employ...
By Carolyn Gretton • Dec. 22, 2011 -
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PharmaTrax
Sales, marketing, And R&D?Trends affecting the healthcare industry By Carolyn Gretton Pharma Turning to Health Outcomes Liaison Teams Trend: Trailblazing pharma companies are assembling elite health outcomes liaison (HOL) teams focused on market access priorities and supporting these groups ...
By Carolyn Gretton • Dec. 22, 2011 -
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Building a Culture of Innovation
Pharmaceutical R&D is under pressure to counter rising costs, depleted pipelines, and impending patent expiries. The industry is facing not only a productivity crisis, but also a crisis in innovation. Industry analysts say many pharmaceutical and biopharma companies are turning their focus aw...
By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 11, 2011
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