Research & Development: Page 38

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    City Centers of Excellence

    There is no disputing that the top two centers of R&D excellence in the country are San Francisco and Cambridge, Mass. However, there is much friendly debate between the two locations on which hub actually takes first place. While Bloomberg Business recently ranked Massachusetts No. 1 for inn...

    By Robin Robinson • June 1, 2017
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    Malaria Research Update

    Despite the successful deployment of multiple interventions against malaria, there were an estimated 212 million cases of malaria and an estimated 429,000 malaria deaths worldwide in 2015, according to the most recent figures from the World Health Organization. Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease...

    By Denise Myshko • June 1, 2017
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    Oncology

    As investments in cancer R&D stay high, waves of innovative new treatments are on the horizon.

    By PharmaVoice staff
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    SHOWCASE FEATURE: Clinical Trial Solutions: Redefining the Clinical Trial Solution Landscape

    Clinical trial solutions bring together technology, product, and services to automate and better manage the clinical trial process. In addition to helping to reduce time and cost, clinical trial solutions are also vital for improving data management and in integrating data from different trials f...

    By PharmaVoice Team • June 1, 2017
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    Moving Down the Digital Path: The Next Evolution in Clinical Trials Testing

    The continued emergence of personalized medicine alongside the need for more consistent and less variable tissue analysis and interpretation has led to an increased reliance on central laboratories to perform anatomic pathology testing and services in support of clinical studies. This demand, cou...

    By Robert A. Carlson • June 1, 2017
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    Responding to Increased FDA Focus on Data Integrity

    As clinical trials grow in complexity and new technologies emerge for capturing clinical data, the need to improve sustainability of data integrity throughout study conduct has heightened. Over the past five years, the volume of data integrity-related CGMP violations have grown in prevalence. In ...

    By Don Zinn • June 1, 2017
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    Can CRA Empowerment Make Clinical Trials More Successful?

    A high clinical research associate (CRA) turnover rate — exceeding 25% annually — coupled with an often checklist-driven monitoring style can lead to a toxic environment for site staff. This impersonal atmosphere can lead to a negative feedback loop, in which CRAs become disengaged with the job a...

    By John Boland • June 1, 2017
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    Choosing the Right EDC/DM Partner: Critical Considerations for Small-toMedium-Sized Life Sciences Organizations

    Whether you are a start-up pharmaceutical or biotech company, a medical devices innovator, or an established organization you want to be equipped with the best possible solution for your study. For small- to medium-sized organizations finding an eClinical partner that is not only competitive but ...

    By Andrew Schachter • June 1, 2017
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    21st Century Trials Demand 21st Century Technology

    The pharmaceutical industry can pride itself on its use of state-of-the art technology in drug discovery using such advances as robotics, molecular modeling, and powerful computational software. Oddly, though, the industry has been slow to take advantage of technology to support clinical operatio...

    By Chris Hall • June 1, 2017
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    Transforming Trials: Reducing Cost and Risk

    The total sponsor cost per new drug compound approved in the United States now exceeds $2.5 billion, including nearly $1.5 billion for clinical development — an astounding 145% jump in just 15 years, according to the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development1. With just 7% of first-in-human ...

    By Dr. Phil Birch • June 1, 2017
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    Providing Meaningful Outcomes for Rare Disease Patients and Clinical Developers

    Successful rare disease studies demand different approaches on a number of levels. Early access studies for patients who are living with life altering of rare diseases call for differences regarding study design, regulatory considerations, patient support in study conduct, and an eye to early pha...

    By Richard Scheyer • June 1, 2017
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    Speak Out

    Are Early Phase Clinical Trials and Electronic Data Capture Still an Unlikely Pair? At a time when technology is well and truly embedded within people’s everyday lives, the adoption of modern technology within clinical research has been an obvious step forward for the industry. Fifteen years ago,...

    By Dr. George Atiee • June 1, 2017
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    Upfront

    Sandoz Names Winners of Healthcare Access Challenge Sandoz, a Novartis division, named the three winners of its inaugural Healthcare Access Challenge (Sandoz HACk). The winners, chosen by a panel of judges at the Wired Health 2017 event in London, identified innovative approaches to address healt...

    By PharmaVoice Team • May 1, 2017
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    Innovator's Corner

    Harnessing the Body’s Own Pathways to Silence Genes Douglas Fambrough, Ph.D., President and CEO of Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, talks about his company’s research to develop RNAi therapeutics, a newer approach to drug discovery and development. About 20,000 genes in the human body are deployed in var...

    By Douglas Fambrough • May 1, 2017
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    Innovator's Corner

    Developing a New Class of Therapeutics Kevin Lee, Ph.D., CEO of Bicycle Therapeutics, talks about the company’s research to develop a new class of therapeutics using synthetic peptides, small molecules with antibody properties. The war on cancer may soon have a new treatment in its arsenal. Bicyc...

    By Kevin Lee • April 1, 2017
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    HealthTech

    Implant Wirelessly Supplies Power to the Brain Trend Watch: Micro Patches, Implants, and Microscopic 3D Printing Enhance Healthcare A research team at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology has developed a wafer-level packaging te...

    By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2017
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    Speak Out

    At the Forefront of Drug Discovery and Development: Small to Midsize Biotech/Biopharma Companies are the Leaders of Innovation  Today, the innovators of drug discovery and development often are found in the smaller, biotech and biopharma companies around the world. According to a report from HBM...

    By Peter Benton • April 1, 2017
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    Letter from the Editor

    Leading from the top Disruption, our experts say in this month’s cover article, is required for the industry to move forward, particularly in light of multiple industry forces. Bernard Munos, senior fellow at FasterCures, Milken Institute, doesn’t like to use the word disruption, because it scare...

    By Taren Grom • March 1, 2017
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    Upfront

    Bayer Campaign Aims to Make Saving Lives Something Common Bayer Aspirin’s latest campaign, timed to American Heart Month, aims to raise awareness about heart attacks and about the role of aspirin in reducing the risk of complications. The HeroSmith campaign began in February 2017 in Fort Smith, A...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2017
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    HealthTech

    Breakthrough Brain Computer Interface for AR/VR Trend Watch: Patches, baby monitors, BCI, artificial skin, and blockchain move healthcare into the future. Neurable, a developer of brain-computer interface (BCI) technology based on breakthrough neuroscience, has raised a $2 million seed round to b...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2017
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    Trends in Protocol Development

    Clinical protocols are the framework for a clinical trial. They provide the structure for assessing a potential product’s safety and efficacy. But over the past 15 years, protocols have increased in endpoints, procedures, eligibility criteria, number of CRFs, protocol amendments, and investigativ...

    By Denise Myshko • March 1, 2017
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    Ebola Research Update

    In 2014, an outbreak of Ebola in Guinea, West Africa, became a global health crisis within a few months. As the outbreak spread to other countries in West Africa, the crisis strained the countries’ already limited healthcare resources, and spread fear in the United States, as some international h...

    By Denise Myshko • March 1, 2017
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    Speak Out

    Calling out Clinical Technology Think about your phone – maybe you are even reading this on it – and you’ll probably have an emotional reaction of some kind. It may or may not be a strong reaction, but odds are there is a certain and specific feeling your phone emotes in you. For something that d...

    By Kristopher E. Sarajian • March 1, 2017
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    Upfront

    Trends in Biopharma Innovation Over the last 20 years, a total of 667 innovative biopharmaceuticals have launched in the United States, finds a new report from QuintilesIMS. The characteristics of biopharmaceutical innovation have evolved in some respects over the past two decades. Most notably, ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Feb. 1, 2017
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    Innovator's Corner

    Gene Therapy for Better Sight Kathy High, M.D., President and Chief Scientific Officer at Spark Therapeutics, talks about the company’s gene therapy for inherited retinal diseases. Thanks to a renewed focus on gene therapy, researchers are uncovering new ways to treat diseases where no therapies ...

    By Kathy High • Feb. 1, 2017
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    HealthTech

    Google Trains AI to Spot Diabetic Retinopathy Trendwatch: From eye sight to brain injuries, technology enables better care. A few years ago, Google technologies began working on ways to improve the diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening process, specifically by taking advantage of recent advances in...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Feb. 1, 2017