Research & Development: Page 59

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    What's New

    Ireland-based Firecrest has opened a facility in Princeton, N.J., that implements the company’s site performance management systems to help U.S.-based companies solve the challenges faced during clinical trial management and site performance. Firecrest’s products help investigators run complex tr...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 9, 2010
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    PharmaTrax

    Sales, Marketing, and R&D Trends from Industry   Analysts Featured Briefs: Market Education Should Start Early in Oncology Drug Development Sidebar: Developing Thought Leaders Sales Call Volume Posts Slight Decline in First Half of 2010 Sidebar: Sales Calls for Top Pharma Companies Companies ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 9, 2010
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    Clinical 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.

    By PharmaVoice staff
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    UpFront

    Awards Digitas Health Wins OMMA Award Digitas Health was a named a winner in the OMMA Award in the Website Excellence in the Integrated Online Campaign, Health & Pharmaceutical category for the MedImmune Good to Share campaign. The OMMA Awards celebrate the year’s best in online media, market...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 9, 2010
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    Letter from the Editor

    The road ahead… Welcome to our annual Year in Preview special issue, which takes a forward-looking approach to identify the trends expected to impact all aspects of the life-sciences industry. We want to thank the almost 100 experts who took the time to raise their voice on the market forces they...

    By Taren Grom • Nov. 9, 2010
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    SHOWCASE FEATURE: Managing Data: The Core of Clinical Research

    Data are the lifeblood of clinical research. A plethora of new technologies have become available over the last decade to help pharmaceutical companies address some of the challenges related to data management. Companies have made a commitment to EDC and e-clinical platforms, and newer technologi...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Sept. 29, 2010
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    Orphan Drugs: Opportunity in Rare Diseases

    Rare diseases could be big business for the bio/pharmaceutical industry. A changing landscape in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries is facilitating efforts to enhance the incentives for pursuing research and development for rare diseases. The development of orphan drugs traditionally wa...

    By Denise Myshko • Sept. 28, 2010
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    Talent Pool

    Pharmaceutical POOL Timothy HAYES Bayer Adds Global Business Development Oversight Timothy Hayes, currently senior VP and region head for Bayer HealthCare’s Consumer Care division in North America, has assumed the additional responsibility of leading the business unit’s global business developmen...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Sept. 28, 2010
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    E-Media

    New Electronic and Web-based Applications, Sites, and Technologies Featured Briefs: CenterWatch Service Matches Sponsors, Investigative Sites PPD, Microsoft Collaborate to Improve REMS ­Management Cegedim Dendrite Streamlines Tracking, ­Reporting Capabilities QPharma Assists with Marketing Spend ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Sept. 28, 2010
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    What's New

    New Healthcare-related Products, Services, and Companies Featured Briefs: Parexel’s Solution Brings Efficiency to Clinical Supply Chain Epitomics Spins Out New Biotech Firm Best Practices Enables Optimization of Key ­Opinion Leaders Sidebar: Around the Globe Follow Up BEST PRACTICES LLC is a rese...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Sept. 28, 2010
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    PharmaTrax

    Sales, Marketing, and R&D Trends from Industry Analysts Featured Briefs: Accurate, Rapid Diagnosis Key to Developing ­Effective Infectious ­Disease Therapies MSLs Are Increasingly Important for Thought Leader Relationships Pharma Companies Increasing Outsource Manufacturing, ­Supply Chain IT ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Sept. 28, 2010
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    UpFront

    Awards Sanofi-Aventis Receives HBA’s ACE Award The Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) has named Sanofi-Aventis US as the winner of the 2010 HBA ACE Award. The Sanofi-Aventis US program, WISE (Women Inspiring Sanofi-Aventis Excellence), is an internal women’s network with more than 1,000...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Sept. 28, 2010
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    Letter from the Editor

    The appeal of the iPad… It’s hard not to be seduced by the power of the 9.7-inch, high-resolution LED-backlit IPS display and incredible multi-touch capabilities, all bundled in a sleek casing that is light enough to take anywhere. The iPad, what will Steve Jobs and his techno-creatives think of ...

    By Taren Grom • Sept. 28, 2010
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    Comparative Effectiveness: Real-World Evidence of Outcomes

    Comparative effectiveness research is going to have a huge impact on every stakeholder in healthcare delivery. It requires a much broader view of the healthcare system so that information will exist about a patient’s outcome as he or she moves from diagnosis to treatment in the healthcare system....

    By PharmaVoice Team • Aug. 27, 2010
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    SHOWCASE FEATURE: No Longer Lost in Translation

    As drug development continues to become more of a global endeavor, it’s more important than ever to ensure that documents, especially informed consent and other patient materials, are correctly translated into local languages to ensure the success of the trial. The increasing number of trials, as...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Aug. 26, 2010
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    DIA Recap

    DIA editor’s Choice Videos BBK Joan F. Bachenheimer and Matthew Stum Bioclinica Peter Benton Cognizant Nagaraja Srivatsan Cytel Irving Dark i3 Research Dr. Tracy Tsuetaki INC Research Alistair Macdonald Integrated Clinical Solutions Inc. J. Peter Armerding Kendle Ken Hintze, Ph.D. Kendle Drew Kil...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Aug. 26, 2010
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    Dr. Leon Smith — Age of Excellence

    Imagine an active and comfortable ­retirement, pursuing your hobbies at will and taking time to enjoy the golden years. Sound like fun? Not to Leon Smith, M.D., it ­doesn’t. After almost 55 years as a practicing physician, Dr. Smith is every bit as enthralled and impassioned about being a doctor ...

    By Kim Ribbink • Aug. 26, 2010
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    Last Word

    USING MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES What are the opportunities for using monoclonal antibodies to treat Alzheimer’s disease? CHAIN: It took a long time to understand the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease. The beta amyloid plaques that appear in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s are just a sign of wh...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Aug. 26, 2010
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    PharmaTrax

    Sales, Marketing, and R&D Trends from Industry Analysts Featured Briefs: Pharma Could Benefit from Earlier Planning of Counter-Generics Strategies Sidebars: Counter-Generics Strategies Used by All Companies in Past 3 Years (2008-2010) Changes in Medical Treatment in Past Year Due to Economic ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Aug. 26, 2010
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    What's New

    Barnett Educational Services has announced the release of updated editions of three of its market intelligence and clinical practices guides. PAREXEL’S BIOPHARMACEUTICAL R&D STATISTICAL SOURCEBOOK 2010/2011 includes statistics, trends, and proprietary market intelligence and analysis on the b...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Aug. 26, 2010
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    UpFront

    Chandler Chicco Co-Founder Receives SABRE Award Bob Chandler, principal and co-founder of the Chandler Chicco ­Companies, part of ­inVentiv Health, received a SABRE Award for ­Individual Achievement. Mr. Chandler received the award, which honors the exceptional work of public relations profession...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Aug. 26, 2010
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    Letter from the Editor

    Publisher Lisa Banket Editor Taren Grom Creative Director Marah Walsh Managing EDitor Denise Myshko Senior EDitor Robin Robinson features EDitor Kim Ribbink Contributing Editor Carolyn Gretton design associate Ariel Medel national account manager Cathy Tracy CIRCULATION Assistant Kathy Deiuliis C...

    By Taren Grom • Aug. 26, 2010
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    Who's On The List by Section

    The Commanders & Chiefs Johanna Allston, Ph.D. – bioCapture Vicente Anido Jr., Ph.D. – ISTA Pharmaceuticals Mara Aspinall – On-Q-ity Glenn Bilawsky – i3 Jay Bolling – Roska Healthcare David Brennan – AstraZeneca Nick Colucci – Publicis Healthcare – Communications Group Lynnette Cooke – Kantar...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 29, 2010
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    Lighter Moments

    Michael Agard • Sanofi-Aventis US I was traveling for business in Paris with some colleagues. I had arranged a wake-up call with the hotel. My colleagues called about 1 a.m. to tell me about plans for the following day. Instead of listening to their phone call, I thought it was the wake-up call a...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 28, 2010
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    The Researchers & SCIENTISTS

    A Diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes at the age of 6 and an early passion for science and research have ­propelled Randy Anderson, Ph.D., to become a force in the fight against the disease. Dr. Anderson has been making inroads into unraveling the mysteries of the disease since his senior-year zoology c...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 28, 2010
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    The ENTREPRENEURS

    A New Breed of Explorer These stalwart captains of industry are taking their passion, innovation, and new ideas around improving the shortfalls within the industry to break new ground. Leslie Gaber started her company at her kitchen table with her 3 and 6 year old daughters by her side. Name: Les...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 28, 2010