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Red Zone: Innovation from the Inside Out
In November 2018, Cognizant was proud to introduce two new products into the Life Sciences market. Both came out of our Accelerator LaunchPad program, which solicits ideas, creates internal startups, and launches only those products that can survive and thrive throughout its rigorous process. But...
By Ari Srinivasan • March 1, 2019 -
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Letter from the Editor
Agile Transformation By definition change is hard, and anyone who works for a large or even a small company has been through at least one reorganization. The agility that companies will need to compete in the new economy, one defined by the digitization of healthcare, cannot be underestimated, an...
By Taren Grom • Feb. 1, 2019 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineOncology R&D
Cancer research remains a prime focus for the industry and often leads to pharma’s most impactful breakthroughs.
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Innovator's Corner
Harnessing the Power of the Body’s Electrical System Frank Amato, CEO of electroCore, talks about how vagus nerve stimulation can be used for the preventive treatment of cluster headache and for the relief of pain associated with migraine and episodic cluster headache. Our nervous system interact...
By Frank Amato • Feb. 1, 2019 -
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Artificial Intelligence
Bayer Uses AI to Boost Pharmacovigilance Trend Watch: Pharma Use of AI Increases In an effort to accelerate its patient safety data monitoring by using artificial intelligence, Bayer has partnered with Genpact to employ its Pharmacovigilance Artificial Intelligence (PVAI) products. These AI tools...
By PharmaVoice Team • Feb. 1, 2019 -
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Transformation: Ready, Set, Agile
According to McKinsey, companies that have enterprise agility share some commonalities: a North Star-mentality, in other words an overarching customer strategy; a scalable team structure; a rapid decision-making mentality; a dynamic people model that ignites passion; and a willing adoption of nex...
By PharmaVoice Team • Feb. 1, 2019 -
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Red Zone: Disruptive Innovation: Questions for the C-Suite
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor is it the most intelligent. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. Whether a direct quote from Charles Darwin or a summary of his writings, this statement is perhaps the most profound scientific explanation of life itself, in all ...
By Srini Shankar • Feb. 1, 2019 -
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Letter from the Editor
Artificial Intelligence Happy New Year. As we enter 2019, we take note of one of the major trends expected to impact all aspects of the life-sciences industry: artificial intelligence. In 2019, according to Forrester, AI solutions will continue to spread across the healthcare continuum thanks to ...
By Taren Grom • Jan. 1, 2019 -
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Upfront
Medicinal Theater BioMarin Pharmaceutical and Believe Ltd. sponsored a first-of-its-kind theatrical production for teenagers with hemophilia. The musical, Hemophilia: The Musical, took place at New World Stages on Nov. 12, 2018. Before the performance, students participated in the Breaking Throug...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 1, 2019 -
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HealthTech
Payers Use Healthtech to Improve Patient Outcomes, Lower Costs Trend Watch: Healthtech Mobile App Market Continues To Grow Payers Offer Free Wearables UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, and John Hancock have all implemented programs that offer free Apple Watches to customers, if they exercise daily. The la...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 1, 2019 -
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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Key to Improving Healthcare Quality, Reducing Costs Trend Watch: AI Implications for Healthcare are Widespread Artificial Intelligence (AI) is key to building a better healthcare future, according to a recent survey of 500 U.S. healthcare leaders on their attitudes and usa...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 1, 2019 -
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Innovator's Corner
Modifying the Immune Response in Celiac Leslie Williams, CEO of ImmusanT, discusses the company’s research for developing a disease-modifying therapeutic for patients with celiac disease. Celiac disease is often misunderstood as a lifestyle disease. Unmanaged, celiac can result in chronic anemia,...
By Leslie Williams • Jan. 1, 2019 -
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Artificial Intelligence: Molecule to Market
The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly taking hold across global businesses, including the life-sciences industry. AI is typically defined as the ability of a machine to perform cognitive functions associated with human minds, such as perceiving, reasoning, learning, and problem ...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 1, 2019 -
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The Coming Wave of Cannabis-based Medicines
Cannabis has remained a source of controversy — from debates on its medicinal value and legalization to concerns about dependency. Cannabis is a hot-button issue among patients, healthcare practitioners, and policymakers. But that is changing. In fact, 32 states and Washington, D.C., now allow ma...
By Denise Myshko • Jan. 1, 2019 -
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Letter from the Editor
The year ahead… As we come to the end of 2018, it’s important to pause and reflect on not just where we’ve been, but where we are going as an industry. In 2018, we saw continuing uncertainty in terms of the Affordable Care Act. We welcomed Alex Azar as the new Secretary of Health and Human Servic...
By Taren Grom • Nov. 15, 2018 -
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Upfront
Johnson & Johnson Announces 10-year Initiative to Help End Tuberculosis Johnson & Johnson has announced a comprehensive 10-year initiative in support of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal target of ending the TB pandemic by 2030. With the goal of saving an estimated 1.8 mill...
By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 15, 2018 -
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HealthTech
Nanomedicine Zeros In On Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells Trend Watch: From Breast Cancer to Asthma, Healthtech Tools Develop Care Solutions Researchers at George Washington University have shown that a technique of delivering a chemotherapy agent within specially designed nanoparticles can be...
By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 15, 2018 -
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2019 Trend Tracking
In this special 2019 Year in Preview issue, more than 100 PharmaVOICE thought leaders address 10 trends that are expected to be part of the changing landscape in the year ahead. These areas of focus cover a variety of disparate topics that range from molecule to market in keeping with our publish...
By Taren Grom • Nov. 15, 2018 -
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Looking Forward To
AI Adoption Richard Davies VP, Solution Expert, CluePoints The application of artificial intelligence and machine learning within the R&D process to guide disparate stakeholders through the planning and execution of clinical trials through targeted risk management is both a current capability...
By Taren Grom • Nov. 15, 2018 -
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Trend: 3D and Bioprinting
The bioprinting field continues to grow and mature. With the evolution of the technology, experts believe even broader applications are on the horizon, providing patients with fully functioning cells — and even organs — that have been created through bioprinting processes. “All of us can envision...
By Denise Myshko • Nov. 15, 2018 -
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Trend: Advanced Diagnostics and Precision Medicine
Healthcare is moving increasingly toward personalized approaches — tailoring treatment based on each patient’s unique disease. Precision medicine is well-established in oncology, with many cancers now characterized by their unique genomic alterations. In the past few years, the Food and Drug Admi...
By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 15, 2018 -
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Trend: Rare Disease Innovation
It’s been almost 120 years since the word gene was coined. Today, researchers are well on their way to manipulating genes to treat diseases. With only about 400 approved treatments for more than 7,000 rare diseases — 80% of which are caused by gene mutations — scientific advances are enabling gen...
By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 15, 2018 -
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Trend: R&D Modeling and Simulation
The Food and Drug Administration for several years has been advocating for the use of computer modeling and simulation as a way to accelerate access to new therapies. First proposed by the agency in 2011 as part of its Critical Path Initiative, modeling and simulation are gaining traction, with t...
By Denise Myshko • Nov. 15, 2018 -
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Speak Out
Looking to Simplify Your Safety Notifications Process? Consider a Cross-Trial SaaS Solution Why new centralized SaaS solutions make more sense than ever before A traffic-light is out of service during rush hour in a busy city intersection. To prevent accidents, a police officer is there directing...
By Brian Fisher • Nov. 15, 2018 -
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Letter from the Editor
Innovation meets the market There are 977 clinical trials under way for products that use regenerative medicine technology. There are more than 150 gene therapy drugs in Phase I, II and III clinical trials in progress as rare disease research enters into a new era of patient-focused innovation. A...
By Taren Grom • Oct. 1, 2018 -
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Innovator's Corner
Discovered by AI Dr. Vimal Mehta, CEO of BioXcel Therapeutics, talks about the company’s clinical candidates identified through an artificial intelligence and machine-learning platform. BioXcel Therapeutics is showing that investments in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can pay o...
By Dr. Vimal Mehta • Oct. 1, 2018
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