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    Personalized Medicine

    RESEARCH & Development PERSONALIZED MEDICINE The Right Dose at the Right time BY DENISE MYSHKO Obstacles and challenges still remain to make the vision of personalized medicine a reality. Despite some early successes, the development of targeted medicines and pharmacogenomics-based testing ha...

    By Denise Myshko • Nov. 22, 2008
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    Development

    development RESEARCH & Development BY DENISE MYSHKO Models of CHANGE In the future, successful biopharmaceutical companies will be those that have reviewed R&D business models and implemented updated strategies for improving the development of new products. The pharmaceutical industry is ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 22, 2008
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    Cell and gene therapies

    How the industry is overcoming hurdles in cell and gene therapy space and pushing for the next generation of treatments.

    By PharmaVoice staff
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    Counterfeit Drugs

    Corporate Strategy Counterfeit Drugs Fighting an uphill battle BY DENISE MYSHKO The counterfeit medicines market is a real, clear, and present danger to public health. And while there have been efforts to minimize the threat of counterfeit and substandard medicines, there is a need to coordinate ...

    By Denise Myshko • Nov. 22, 2008
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    The Corner Office

    Corporate Strategy A review of the annual reports and public statements of more than two dozen of the industry’s publicly traded pharmaceutical/biotechnology companies reveals the top trends as identified by the CEOs, presidents, and executive management teams of these industry standard bearers. ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 22, 2008
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    Talent Pool

    Pharma POOL Dr. Barry Goldstein Merck Appoints Head of Diabetes, Obesity Development Global pharmaceutical company Merck, Whitehouse Station, N.J., has named Barry Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., FACP, FACE, VP of diabetes and obesity clinical development. In addition to leading overall development of co...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 22, 2008
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    Table of Contents

    Contents November/December 2008 98 PATIENT EDUCATION Product managers still need to reach patients with messages that resonate on a personal level. 102 DOCTORS’CHOICE AWARDS A review of the 2008 winners. IN EVERY ISSUE 3 Letter from the Editor 6 UpFront 104 What’s New 108 EMedia 113 OnThe Calenda...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 22, 2008
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    Talent Pool

    Pharma POOL Mark GLICKMAN Oscient Promotes Sales Executive Commercial stage pharmaceutical company Oscient Pharmaceuticals, Waltham, Mass., has promoted Mark Glickman to senior VP, sales and marketing, and corporate officer. Since joining Oscient in August 2007 as VP of sales, Mr. Glickman has be...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Sept. 30, 2008
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    On the Calendar

    October 15 3rd Leadership Summit on Medicare Enrollment and PDE Data Reconciliation Hilton Old Town, Alexandria, Va. PharmaVOICE subscribers receive $300 discount; register using keycode HYU957. For more information, contact Jodi Bova, Center for Business Intelligence, at 781-939-2563, email jodi...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Sept. 30, 2008
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    What's New

    NEW HEALTH CARE RELATED PRODUCTS, SERVICES, AND COMPANIES Julie Kampf has launched Career Central, a consulting firm that provides executive skill building to job seekers ranging from recent college graduates to senior level managers to professionals seeking a second or third career. Career Centr...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Sept. 30, 2008
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    Marketing Inside the Lines

    THE FORUM The industry has responded by drafting its own rules of conduct. In July, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) released a revised version of its 2002 Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals, a set of voluntary guidelines designed to ensure the foc...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Sept. 16, 2008
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    The Green Movement: Rethinking Chemistry

    BY DENISE MYSHKO Major pharmaceutical companies are working together to minimize the environmental impact of how they make their products. The GREEN MOVEMENT Rethinking Chemistry GREEN IS THE NEW BLACK. The push to make prescription drugs more efficient, cleaner, and safer is gaining momentum ami...

    By Denise Myshko • Aug. 27, 2008
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    What's New

    WHAT’S NEW NEW HEALTH CARE RELATED PRODUCTS, SERVICES, AND COMPANIES IMS Health has joined with 10 leading U.S. academic researchers in medicine, health economics, and public health to establish the Health Services Research Network (HSRN), a consortium that will apply IMS’s evidence based informa...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Aug. 27, 2008
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    PharmaOutlet

    The words “corporate social responsibility” are flooding the headlines. While not a new concept, in today’s world there is a fundamental expectation that we should do business in an ethical manner that supports the wellbeing and betterment of society. Under constant scrutiny by industry regulator...

    By William Clapper • Aug. 27, 2008
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    Cover

    PharmaVOICE PharmaVOICE 100 THE FORUM FOR THE INDUSTRY EXECUTIVE July/August 2008 SPECIAL ISSUE 100 of the Most Inspiring People www.pharmavoice.com Download PDF

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 28, 2008
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    Letter from the Editor

    PharmaVOICE is delighted to publish the fourth annual special issue featuring 100 of the most inspiring individuals in the life-sciences industry. This issue has become one of my favorites and, from all accounts, one of yours as well. What’s not to love? This issue celebrates the men and women of...

    By Taren Grom • July 27, 2008
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    The Mentors

    Brian Corvino Mary Lacquaniti Lelia O’Connor Danita Sutton, Ph.D. MENTORING AND SHAPING THE CAREERS OF OTHERS ARE VENERABLE AND ADMIRABLE TALENTS. MENTORING TAKES PATIENCE, FORESIGHT, AND UNSELFISH DEVOTIONTO OTHERS’ SUCCESS and is a skill that is often unheralded — until now. We salute those who...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 24, 2008
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    The Technologists

    Valdo Arnera, M.D. Bill Byrom, Ph.D. Philip A. Garland Keith Howells Don Schenker Rodney Spady A creative and passionate approach to pioneering new areas of technology applications and new products has enabled Dr. Bill Byrom to engender real improvements in the drug development process. For the p...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 24, 2008
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    The Change Agents

    Despite obstacles, these movers and shakers have shouldered the mantle of responsibility and are changing the industry for the better. Jason Appel Jay Bigelow Gregg Brandyberry Santino Costanzo Sean Cunliffe Kathleen Drennan Filipe Duarte Marc Ferrara Thomas Finn Colleen Foley Alberto Grignolo, P...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 24, 2008
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    What's New

    NEW HEALTHCARERELATED PRODUCTS, SERVICES, AND COMPANIES Avista Capital Partners, which acquired BristolMyers Squibb Medical Imaging in January, has relaunched the business as Lantheus Medical Imaging. Lantheus continues the unit’s halfcentury tradition of providing innova tive medical imaging pro...

    By PharmaVoice Team • May 27, 2008
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    A Value Proposition: Managing the Supply Chain

    *Solutions that encompass the strategy, processes, people, technologies, and resources responsible for ensuring the flow of materials and services are necessary to deliver an organization’s value to its end-user customers.* MANAGING INVENTORIES, WORKING CLOSELY WITH CONTRACTED SUPPLIERS TO ENSURE...

    By PharmaVoice Team • April 25, 2008
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    Talent Pool

    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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    Talent Pool

    Pharma POOL Dr. Milind DESHPANDE Achillion Pharmaceuticals Creates VP, Drug Discovery,Position Achillion Pharmaceu ticals Inc. has promoted Milind Deshpande, Ph.D., to VP of drug dis covery. Achillion, New Haven, Conn., is a privately held pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, developm...

    By PharmaVoice Team • April 22, 2008
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    Talent Pool

    Pharma POOL William G. DEMPSEY Guillermo A. HERRERA Abbott Laboratories Names U.S. Pharmaceutical and International Businesses Leaders William G. Dempsey has been named senior VP of pharmaceutical operations for Abbott Laboratories’ U.S. pharmaceutical business. Abbott, Abbott Park, Ill., is a g...

    By PharmaVoice Team • April 21, 2008
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    PharmaTrax

    PHARMA TRAX SALES, MARKETING, AND R&D TRENDS AFFECTING THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY AGING POPULATION PROPELS RISE in Worldwide Market for Diagnostic Imaging Products In 2001,more than a billion medical imaging procedures were performed worldwide. Medtech Insight’s report, The Worldwide Market fo...

    By PharmaVoice Team • April 21, 2008
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    Talent Pool

    previously served as VP, pharmaceutical sci ences quality. She earned a B.S. in chemistry and pharmacology and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Martin Huber, M.D., SPRI’s VP, global pharmacovigilance, has been named to the additional post of dep...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 29, 2008