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It's Blind Leading the Blind on Companion Diagnostics

By Clark Herman | Published: January 25, 2013

A new report from the Tufts Center for Study of Drug Development (CSDD), confirms that companion diagnostics are an important factor for pharma companies to consider when seeking reimbursement of their drugs. But companies still have a ways to go in allaying the concerns of investors, regulators and payors alike, and fixing this will require [...]

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Highlights from the Leerink Swann Healthcare Conference

By Ben Comer | Published: March 13, 2012

Over a hundred public companies, dozens of clinicians, and several regulators participated in investment firm Leerink Swann’s 2012 Healthcare Conference in mid-February. Press was barred from the event, but John Sullivan, Leerink’s director of research, gives PharmExec a few of the take-aways.

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