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Pharma's Most Productive Innovators: The Top Ten
By Stephanie Sutton, PharmTech Europe.
Consultancy firm IDEA Pharma has released what it calls a ‘Productive Innovation Index’, which ranks pharmaceutical companies based on their ability to successfully commercialize new innovations. The company has been published the index for three years and uses publicly available data to reach its conclusions.
Although the index [...]
New York Pharma Forum: Together We Stand
Participants in the 23rd Annual NYPF General Assembly last Friday outlined the many challenges facing industry, and the importance of collaboration as a way to move forward.
Posted in Biotech, Events, People, R&D, Strategy, Technology, leadership Also tagged academia, Biotech, collaboration, Meetings, Merck, New York City, New York Pharma Forum, NYPF, partnerships, Pharma, Takeda Leave a comment
Biomedical Innovation in Trouble
The time and cost of developing new drugs are rising, venture capitalists make no return on investments in biopharma R&D, and other countries are boosting support in this area while U.S. policy makers propose funding cuts for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This bleak picture of the “state of biomedical innovation” was painted by [...]
Posted in Biotech, FDA, R&D, Technology, healthcare, leadership Also tagged Amgen, Francis Collins, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH, Warburg Pincus 3 Comments
Who's the More Innovative: CROs or Pharma?
CROs and pharma battled for the innovation crown at last week’s annual PCMG’s conference. Julian Upton reports.
It’s rather refreshing, in these gloomy economic times, to attend an event that bucks the trend for austerity, and the Pharmaceutical Contract Management Group (PCMG) annual conference last week certainly did that. For the last four years of its [...]
Posted in Global, Meetings, R&D Also tagged conferenc, contracting, Events, mettings, outsorucing, PCMG 3 Comments

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