Research & Development: Page 40
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Letter from the Editor
In the rare disease community there is saying: Alone we are rare, together we are strong. Wendy White, senior VP, for rare diseases, at Dohmen Life Science Services, a board member of Global Genes, and the president of the Heathcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA), shared her personal rare dis...
By Taren Grom • June 1, 2015 -
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Innovator's Corner
The 3D Human Body Frank Sculli, Co-founder and CEO of BioDigital, talks about his company’s 3D technology that can produce a virtual model of the human body to help everyone better understand health and disease concepts. The amount and complexity of health information continues to grow, but the w...
By Frank Sculli • June 1, 2015 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineClinical trial diversity
As pharma wises up to the fact that the current playbook for improving clinical trial diversity has yet to make a meaningful impact, the quest is on to refine that approach.
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The Network
IBM Partners For Advanced Health Data Collection Trending Now: Apps and partnerships extend medical reach and research. IBM has established a Watson Health Cloud that will provide a secure and open platform for physicians, researchers, insurers, and companies focused on health and wellness soluti...
By PharmaVoice Team • June 1, 2015 -
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Wearables in Clinical Trials
Wearables are emerging as a solution for creating a more nimble and efficient clinical trial process, from recruiting patients to collecting real-world patient data. While the movement is still in its infancy and there are several challenges and hurdles to overcome before wearables become commonp...
By Robin Robinson • June 1, 2015 -
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The Importance of CROs For Oncology Trials
Oncology trials are different from trials in other therapeutic areas. They are often more complex, involve adaptive design, and can include biomarker and companion diagnostics. They require CROs with therapeutic experience and the knowledge and skills to address these more complex studies. Cancer...
By Denise Myshko • June 1, 2015 -
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2015 DIA Preview
The DIA Annual Meeting brings together key thought leaders and innovators from industry, academia, government and regulatory agencies, health, patient, and philanthropic organizations from around the globe and across all disciplines involved in the discovery, development, and life-cycle managemen...
By PharmaVoice Team • June 1, 2015 -
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SHOWCASE FEATURE: Clinical Solutions: Clinical Services Market Poised For Growth
According to a recent report from JZ Med, the global clinical trial service market is expected to reach more than $64 billion by 2020, up from $38.4 billion at present, representing a CAGR of 9% between 2015 and 2020. By 2020 the average clinical trial outsourcing penetration will likely reach ar...
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Endpoint-Based Protocol Development: An Outcomes-Based Approach to Clinical Trial Testing
A shift toward more targeted therapeutics, combined with the need to meet specific endpoints in clinical trials, has placed a significant emphasis on esoteric laboratory tests within the test menus employed in clinical trials. Biopharmaceutical companies and clinical research organizations have l...
By Mark Engelhart • June 1, 2015 -
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Patient or Partner? Building An Innovative Relationship for the Future
The healthcare industry has struggled with many changes in the last 10 years, including the inevitable patent cliff, the emergence of patient advocacy, increased regulatory and healthcare reform, and the rising cost of doing business. However, even in this age of rapid innovation and adaptability...
By Marc Sirockman • June 1, 2015 -
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Implementing Interactive Response Technology in A Software-As-A-Service Model
Historically, the software used in clinical trials has taken the form of either a fully installed customized solution, or a hybrid customized and configurable solution. The implementation of such systems has been time-consuming with costly infrastructure, and because minimizing IT delivery times ...
By Jamey McCarty • June 1, 2015 -
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Clinical Trial Transformation Through Digital Clinical and Code Halos
What is “Digital Clinical?" As Morpheus tells Neo in the film The Matrix, “No one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself." Today we sometimes find ourselves immersed in our own real-life version of the Matrix, as our personal data accumulates on computer servers somewhere...
By Larry Florin • June 1, 2015 -
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The Importance of A Beautiful Technology Experience
Do you remember when the first Apple iPod was released? The advertisements on television showed beautiful images of rotating color behind a clean silhouette dancing to the sounds coming from the earbuds. It was bold, fresh, and exciting. It was fun. We were not confused by technical specs. We wer...
By Ibraheem (IBS) Mahmood • June 1, 2015 -
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How Do iComply? A Look at Regulatory Topics Surrounding the use of Mhealth Technology in Clinical Trials
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Group has defined mHealth as “the use of mobile and wireless devices to improve health outcomes, health care services and health research." The mHealth landscape is expanding with over 97,000 apps (mobile applications) as of 2013. Yet the vas...
By Philip Coran • June 1, 2015 -
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Extracting Maximum Value From Electronic Data Capture
Electronic data capture (EDC) has been employed for clinical trial data for many years and is encouraged by the FDA because it provides significant benefits to sponsors, investigators, and patients, including more accurate data that can be more easily shared and monitored, increased compliance wi...
By Zaher El-Assi • June 1, 2015 -
PharmaVoice Team/PharmaVoice
Which Patients Are Really at Risk For Becoming Non-Adherent?
If you’re targeting only the most obvious patients with your medication adherence programs, you’re missing out on a big opportunity. Quite often, outreach programs focus on individuals hovering around the 80% threshold for proportion of days covered (PDC). It makes sense. Why not use your resourc...
By Craig Schilling • June 1, 2015 -
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Seeing the Big Picture With Visual Data Analytics
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are facing a gigantic increase in data — not just in volume, but in complexity. The number of clinical trials in the National Institute of Health’s registry has jumped from 5,635 in 2000 to 183,991 in 2015 — an increase of more than 30 times. The data la...
By Greg Moody • June 1, 2015 -
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All Monitoring is Risk Based
Drug developers must introduce innovation across the entire life cycle of product development to more effectively bring new therapies to markets. The innovations will be recognized by the use of smarter and faster methods for discovery of new drug entities and companion diagnostics, use of flexib...
By Michael Brooks • June 1, 2015 -
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Managing the Scientific and Ethical Complexities of Medical Innovation
Today, advances in science and medicine are occurring at an unprecedented pace. These exciting changes broaden the ethical implications of medical innovation and expand the need to protect clinical research subjects. Often, Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) find themselves on the frontline of th...
By Lindsay McNair • June 1, 2015 -
PharmaVoice Team/PharmaVoice
Maximizing Portfolio Value By Smart Partnering: This is Not Your Father's Oldsmobile
Portfolio value is traditionally associated with innovation value; i.e., intellectual property, market attractiveness, potential clinical utility, and other product-centric attributes. Less commonly considered is the differentiation afforded by the partnering process employed during clinical deve...
By Michael Murphy • June 1, 2015 -
PharmaVoice Team/PharmaVoice
Letter from the Editor
In this month’s Forum, experts from multiple disciplines, from drug development to marketing, discuss the challenges and opportunities that technology is bringing to the table. AstraZeneca’s CIO David Smoley sums up the changing landscape neatly: “When it comes to IT, we cannot operate in a world...
By Taren Grom • May 1, 2015 -
PharmaVoice Team/PharmaVoice
UpFront
Industry at Large AbbVie To Award 40 CF Scholarships AbbVie has announced the 2015 AbbVie CF Scholarship, which honors and supports young adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) as they pursue higher education, is now open to undergraduate and graduate students. For the 23rd year, the AbbVie CF Scholar...
By PharmaVoice Team • May 1, 2015 -
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Innovator's Corner
Automating Medicinal Chemistry Through Building Blocks Martin Burke, M.D., Ph.D., and Mark Goldsmith, M.D., Ph.D., founded Revolution Medicines, which has an automated chemical synthesis platform that can be used to produce a broad range of molecules. Through the years of trial and error, researc...
By PharmaVoice Team • May 1, 2015 -
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What's New
Turing Pharmaceuticals New Drug Company Launched Trending now: Experienced team comes together to focus on treating unmet medical needs. Turing Pharmaceuticals, a new pharmaceutical company, launched with news of three acquisitions for its commercial operations and development pipeline. New York-...
By PharmaVoice Team • May 1, 2015 -
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Pharma Trax
Cancer Care in America: A Shifting Landscape Trending now: Amid growing patient demand and administrative burden, there are stresses on the oncology care system. The U.S. cancer care system faces tremendous turbulence while dealing with growing numbers of cancer patients and survivors, mounting ...
By PharmaVoice Team • May 1, 2015 -
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On the Calendar
Coming Attractions DIA 2015, the 51st annual meeting, is the largest multidisciplinary event that brings together a global network of life-sciences professionals to foster innovation that will lead to the development of safe and effective medical products and therapies to patients. This year’s t...
By PharmaVoice Team • May 1, 2015
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