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What's New
CAHG and Diaceutics to Launch Bioceutics Trending Now: New agency is putting the “person" back into personalized healthcare. CAHG, a global professional healthcare communications company, and Diaceutics Ltd., specialists in personalized healthcare consulting, software, and services, have launched...
By Ann Grey • Jan. 28, 2014 -
Innovator's Corner
The Fly Boy Dr. Ross Cagan’s approach to drug discovery aims to show how flies can be used to screen for new targets. The traditional process of finding a new drug starts by screening chemicals for their effect on a given target through cell-based screens. Modern drug discovery automates this, bu...
By Dr. Ross Cagan • Jan. 28, 2014 -
Trendline
Oncology
As investments in cancer R&D stay high, waves of innovative new treatments are on the horizon.
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UpFront
INDUSTRY at Large AbbVie Provides Grant for Math Education AbbVie has provided a a $350,000 grant for math education to the North Chicago public schools. The grant will enable educators to strengthen and reinforce the math curriculum for students (K-8) in the district and assist in the implementa...
By Denise Myshko • Jan. 28, 2014 -
Letter to the Editor
Jonah Frohlich Managing Director Manatt Health Solutions The ACA is accelerating a reorganization of the healthcare delivery system from episodic, reactive, acute management of patients, to proactive, population-based delivery models. These changes, manifest as patient centered medical homes...
By Jonah Frohlich • Jan. 27, 2014 -
Letter from the Editor
The State of the Industry many companies are at a crossroads, according to Cegedim Relationship management. Cegedim Relationship Management recently engaged key decision makers from leading global life-sciences enterprises to address some critical questions: how has the recent transformational pr...
By Taren Grom • Jan. 27, 2014 -
The Philippines: Global Pharma Appeal
With 14 of the top 20 pharma companies establishing manufacturing facilities in the Philippines, the country is clearly a go-to destination. The Philippines, an island nation in Southeast Asia, has a population of more than 95 million people, making it the 12th most populated country in the world...
By Kim Ribbink • Dec. 28, 2013 -
C-Suite: Clinical Services
By Taren Grom We asked C-suite executives throughout the clinical services ecosystem to provide their insights on where the biggest opportunities for innovation for improving the drug development process lie, what the biggest barriers are, and identify a recent innovation that is improving the pr...
By Taren Grom • Dec. 28, 2013 -
Innovation Incubators
Robin Robinson As the industry looks for new avenues to fill its pipeline, the incubator model provides speed, innovation, and results. In November 2013, Wellspring Biosciences discovered small molecules that bind irreversibly to a common oncogenic mutant, K-Ras G12C, one of the most promising ap...
By PharmaVoice Team • Dec. 28, 2013 -
Talent Pool
Talent Pool Pharma Pool Greg Barrett Dr. Glenn Gormley Daiichi Sankyo Makes Two New Executive Appointments Greg Barrett has been appointed as the new acting head of the Commercial Division of Daiichi Sankyo. He holds the new title of acting president, Daiichi Sankyo Administrative & Commercia...
By Ann Grey • Dec. 28, 2013 -
On the Calendar
The Calendar The 13th annual ePharma conference, Feb. 10-12, New?York Marriott Marquis, brings three days of strategic and tactical learning, peer exchange, and dialogue that actively dissects current trends, marketplace needs, evolving customer bases, and explains how to harness these new opport...
By PharmaVoice Team • Dec. 28, 2013 -
PharmaTrax
Pharma Trax Sales, Marketing, and R&D?Trends Affecting the Healthcare Industry U.S. Mobile Health Audience Jumps Trending Now: Having mobile-optimized websites is key in light of the growth of mobile health The number of Americans using mobile phones for health information or tools reached 95...
By Denise Myshko • Dec. 28, 2013 -
Tools of the Trade
New Electronic and Web-based Applications, Sites, and Technologies Deloitte Launches Real-World Evidence Platform Trending Now: Data analytics can provide insights and relationships among drugs and diseases across broad patient populations over time. Deloitte has released PopulationMiner, a real-...
By Denise Myshko • Dec. 28, 2013 -
What's New
New Healthcare-related Products, Services, and Companies Cooney/Waters and Russo Partners Launch New Agency Trending Now: Integrated communications service provides healthcare companies with support throughout their business and product lifecycles. Cooney/Waters and Russo Partners has launched Cl...
By Ann Grey • Dec. 28, 2013 -
eSolutions: A Custom Fit
eSolutions: A Custom Fit A collaborative approach to building a program mixed with superior customer support will yield more efficient data collection and management, and in return the sponsor will be more inclined to work with that vendor again. Patient reported outcomes, patient data capture, ...
By Doug Liberi • Nov. 13, 2013 -
Save Time, Money and Eliminate Redundancy with InvestigatorSpace, Enterprise Investigator Portal
Save Time, Money and Eliminate Redundancy with InvestigatorSpace, Enterprise Investigator Portal For nearly a decade, Trifecta has been on the forefront of innovation in Investigator portals. The company perfected a host of solutions that make Investigator training and related site start-up proce...
By Dave Young • Nov. 13, 2013 -
Moving Clinical Trials to the Cloud: A New Paradigm to Transform Clinical Trials
Moving Clinical Trials to the Cloud A New Paradigm to Transform Clinical Trials Clinical trial sponsors are facing intense pressures to change the way clinical research is conducted in order to decrease costs and speed up the R&D process. This will bring new treatments to market sooner and ad...
By Raj Indupuri • Nov. 13, 2013 -
How to Solve Your Patient Retention and Compliance Problems with Patient Reminders
How to Solve Your Patient Retention and Compliance Problems with Patient Reminders Patient compliance and retention are critical to the success of your clinical trial. Anyone who has helped recover a noncompliant study or reduce the volume of early patient withdrawal knows the recovery process is...
By Mark Taggart • Nov. 13, 2013 -
SHOWCASE FEATURE: e-Solutions: The E-Arena
The E-Arena From the clinic to the medicine cabinet, e-solutions are transforming the way in which medicines are developed, monitored, and taken. Soaring healthcare costs across the globe, accompanied by growing demands from aging populations and emerging economies, are fueling technological and ...
By Taren Grom • Nov. 13, 2013 -
Commercialization Payers: The Power of Payer Partnerships Lies in Data Sharing
Year in Preview: Commercialization — Payers The Power of Payer Partnerships Lies in Data Sharing As payers grow more influential in treatment decision making, sharing outcomes data becomes key for pharma. Shared use of data between payers and pharma has been occurring for some time, but today — a...
By Taren Grom • Nov. 13, 2013 -
Commercialization Physicians: Improving Access to Physicians in 2014
Year in Preview: Commercialization Physicians Improving Access to Physicians in 2014 It will take more than technology to create successful relationships with physicians. The role of today’s pharmaceutical salesforce is in constant evolution, as is the environment in which it functions. As leaner...
By Taren Grom • Nov. 13, 2013 -
R&D Outsourcing: Outsourcing Relationships Mature
Year in Preview: R&d Outsourcing Outsourcing Relationships Mature The sponsor-CRO partnership continues to evolve toward an integrated ???? approach to clinical development that decreases fixed costs and provides sponsors with access to capabilities not found internally. R&D outsourcing w...
By Denise Myshko • Nov. 13, 2013 -
R&D Big Data: Big Data to Transform R&D
Big Data Transform R&D The use of big data is expected to be a disruptive innovation for research and development. The use of big data is expected to transform healthcare in general and the pharmaceutical in particular. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that applying big-data strategies...
By Taren Grom • Nov. 13, 2013 -
R&D Collaboration: Thriving in an Era of R&D Collaboration
Thriving in a Era of R&D Collaboration Year in Preview: R&D collaboration Greater cooperation with academic and government researchers, as well as with other companies, is needed to create collaborations that push innovation forward. There is a growing consensus that the industry must tea...
By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 13, 2013 -
R&D Trends: The Innovation Challenge
The Innovation Challenge Innovation continues to be a hot topic in pharma R&D. But developing truly innovative medicines will require companies to embrace nontraditional partnerships, have a focus on genomics to get a better understanding of disease, and adopt systems biology and big data app...
By Taren Grom • Nov. 12, 2013 -
Corporate Crystal Ball: Trends From the Top
Trends From the Top From the ACA to a value-based system, executives representing all aspects of the life-sciences industry name the top trends they believe will impact near- and long-term success. Phil Birch Senior VP, Global Strategic Marketing Aptiv Solutions 1. Value-Based System. The evolvin...
By Taren Grom • Nov. 12, 2013