Tag Archives: drug development

R&D Trends for 2013: Data Trims, Partnerships, and Emerging Global Players

By Clark Herman | Published: January 14, 2013
The Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD) sees two key trends as increasingly important for pharmaceutical companies to maintain success: eliminating the bane of extraneous data and fostering collaborations with academia and multi-company consortia both as measures of reducing costs and remaining competitive by more quickly and effectively guiding medicines to market. [...]
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Public Interest in Private Science: New Pathways to Measuring R&D Success

By William Looney | Published: August 8, 2012
Today’s big product story — the apparent end to a decade-long drought in the drug development pipeline — is the prep stage for tomorrow’s big policy question:  are industry R&D priorities in synch with the changing burden of disease?
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Drug Innovation: Alive and Well at ASCO!

By Guest Blogger | Published: June 6, 2012
By John Otrompke. This year’s annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), which ended on Tuesday, provided many examples of emerging therapies that offer new hope to even those patients with metastatic disease. Improved results in progression-free survival in clinical trials suggest that many forms of cancer may soon take on a more [...]
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NIH Director Speaks Out on the Institutes' New Remit

By Guest Blogger | Published: January 26, 2011
As the National Institutes for Health hits the headlines over its remit to help develop new medicines, Director Francis Collins talks to Pharm Exec about the new initiatives he sees as critical for innovation, industry and public health. Francis Collins devoted more than 15 years in the lab to deciphering the human genome. Ten years later, [...]
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