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Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property Shanahan. The ability to codify and share intellectual property (i.e., scientific understanding) can bring the 20% R&D cost closer to 16% to 18% of revenue. The current inability to codify and share is at the root of the following challenges: bringing new drugs and thera...
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Shareholder Value
Shareholder Value Freedman. The ability to consistently deliver more novel new chemical entities and therapies is a huge challenge but it is the way to increase value for shareholders and patients. Innovative companies, the ones with superior ROIs, seem to be more receptive and willing to adopt t...
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Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineArtificial intelligence & machine learning
After years of excited buzz around the potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning, pharma has begun to realize the true implications and potential value of these technologies.
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Cover
PharmaVOICE The Forum for the Industry Executive Year In Preview: 2005 More than 100 experts talk about the industry’s future www.pharmavoice.com December 2004 Special Issue Volume 4 Number 12 Download PDF
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Letter from the Editor
2005 Year In Preview Taren Grom In keeping with PharmaVOICE’s mission of providing insightful and provocative commentary on the business practices, strategies, and services that affect the life cycle of products from molecule through market, it is our pleasure to publish the first annual Year in ...
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Introduction
The Pulse of the Industry By Taren Grom This first annual PharmaVOICE Year in PreVIEW is designed to provide an overview of the challenges and trends expected to impact the life-sciences industry in the coming year and beyond. For this special forum, a distinguished list of more than 100 industry...
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Business Models
Turett. The pharmaceutical industry needs to resolve multiple bipolarities: being a business and being a public utility; being doctor-focused and being consumer-focused; and being about medical innovation and being about marketing. The industry has begun a process of self-reinvention that in 2005...
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Medical Education
Medical Education Nash-Wong. Last year’s predictions on regulatory changes had us believing medical education was a thing of the past. Not so, if one considers the fact that physicians continue to attend educational meetings, despite limited food budgets and a ban on spouses. So rather than forec...
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Multifunctional Teams
Multifunctional Teams Wilson. Historically, the pharmaceutical industry has faced two hurdles: achieving product registration and securing reimbursement. Today, demonstrating product value is becoming a much stronger issue. It’s not just a matter of product price, but the impact on total cost of ...
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Technology
Technology Cauwenbergh. Ideally, predictive tools, including assays, computer modeling techniques, and biomarkers could shorten development time, reduce the cost of development, and increase the accuracy of diagnosis, making sure that the right patient gets the right drug because of proper diagno...
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Risk Management
Risk Management Turett. The term risk management implies a defensive, prepare-for-the-worst strategy. While defensive preparation is certainly important, taking a fresh look at conducting business in a “patient-first” manner will reduce the need to implement a defensive approach. In other words, ...
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Talent Pool
Pharma POOL Dr. Alan Colowick Threshold Pharmaceuticals Appoints Chief Medical Officer Threshold Pharmaceuticals has named Alan Colowick, M.D., chief medical officer. Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Redwood City, Calif., is focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of small-molecule...
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On the Calendar
On the Calendar April 17-19 Medical Manufacturing Summit The Homestead Resort, Hot Springs, Va. For more information, contact Caria Badenhorst, Marcus Evans, at 246-417-5321, e-mail [email protected], or visit medicalmanufacturingsummit.com. April 18-19 Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s, Pa...
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Fee-For-Service: Getting What You Pay For
VIEW on Wholesale Pricing Models In an exclusive to PharmaVOICE, Adam J. Fein, Ph.D., Founder and President of Pembroke Consulting Inc., a firm that helps senior executives of wholesale distribution, manufacturing, and B2B technology companies build and sustain market leadership, discusses why ph...
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Making Metrics Matter -- The Changing Paradigm of R&D Metrics
Making Metrics Matter The Changing Paradigm of R&D Metrics As the pharmaceutical industry comes under greater scrutiny across the board, everything from discovery processes to R&D productivity to profit margins is subject to review. In response, top industry executives are reexamining the...
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The Asthma Market Breathes Easier
The Asthma Market Breathes Easier The approach to treating asthma continues to evolve. Rescue bronchodilator therapies are giving way, both in medical practice and in the market, to prophylactic strategies, which include inhaled corticosteroids, long-acting beta2 agonists, and leukotriene antagon...
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Talent Pool
Pharma POOL Dr. Mahdi B. Fawzi Dr. Frank S. Walsh Wyeth Promotes Two Research Scientists to Executive VPs Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Madison, N.J., a division of Wyeth, has promoted Mahdi B. Fawzi, Ph.D., to executive VP, head of preclinical development, and Frank S. Walsh, Ph.D., to executive VP, he...
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Medicare Part D: A Whole New Market
Medicare Part D: A Whole New Market By Kim Ribbink Marketers, manufacturers, health plans, and other stakeholders who will play a central role in the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) are gearing up for implementation. And while there is widespread support for a change that will improve coverage t...
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Sea Change
Sea Change Turning the tide The Product Life-Cycle Management Wave Commonly thought of as a strategy for the end-phase of a drug, life-cycle management increasingly is being deployed by life-sciences executives earlier in the development phases to maximize product value, provide greater benefits ...
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Connecting the Dots
Ensuring trial-supply management is an integral part of overall clinical-trials management and manufacturing can bring efficiency to development and save companies time and money. Discussions about increasing efficiency and reducing time lines in clinical development often focus on patient and in...
By Denise Myshko • Jan. 2, 2008 -
Talent Pool
executive appointments and promotions in the healthcare industry Pharma POOL Robert Boisclair Dr. Richard Bowles Steve Chellevold Mary-Frances Faraji Brent Saunders Schering-Plough Announces Senior-Level Management Changes Schering-Plough, Kenilworth, N.J., has made senior-level management change...
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Data Management: Integrating Across the Enterprise
Data Management Integrating Across the Enterprise by elisabeth pena As new technologies allow for the generation of more data than ever before, it is crucial that the pharmaceutical industry develop data-management strategies to translate data into actionable information that can be used to drive...
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Talent Pool
Talent Pool Executive Appointments and Promotions in the Healthcare Industry Pharma POOL Dr. Vijay Aggarwal David Hurley aaiPharma Announces Two Executive Promotions aaiPharma Inc. has appointed Dr. Vijay Aggarwal, formerly president of AAI Development Services, to the role of president, research...
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E-Media
E-Media New electronic and web-based applications, sites, and technologies Oracle’s RDC to Speed Data Collection in Clinical Trials Oracle’s latest release of Clinical Remote Data Capture (RDC) features advances in usability, form design, and support for clinical trials. It provides the staff at ...
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Table of Contents
on the cover Data management -Integrating across the enterprise As new technologies allow for the generation of more data, it is becoming increasingly crucial for the pharmaceutical industry to develop strategies to translate data into actionable information that can be used to drive business dec...
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Distribution Support Systems
Distribution support systems More sophisticated products mean new and more elaborate distribution-support systems are needed to move the manufacturer closer to the patient. In an exclusive to PharmaVOICE, David Hileman, VP of RxCrossroads, discusses the changing dynamics of distribution channels ...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008