Research & Development: Page 62


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    Letter from the Editor

    Going for Gold For two weeks, every two years, I hear trumpets in my sleep. Yes, I am an Olympics junkie. I am one of those fans who watches more than just the marquee events. Don’t get me wrong; I love the prime-time televised competitions and watching the favorites and underdogs reach the medal...

    By Taren Grom • Aug. 30, 2012
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    The Technologists

    Robert Holmes, Ph.D. Qforma Marco van Doeveren Medidata Solutions?Worldwide The Technologists Solution Activators These technology experts are developing and implementing innovative tools, solutions, and products to address the myriad challenges facing the life-sciences industry. Dr. Robert Holme...

    By Taren Grom • July 28, 2012
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    Oncology R&D

    Cancer research remains a prime focus for the industry and often leads to pharma’s most impactful breakthroughs.   

    By PharmaVoice staff
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    The Marketers

    Nancy Beesley HCB Health Timmy Garde Star Group Communications Shannon Hartley Rosetta Mike Innaurato Purdue Pharma Scott Richardson Pfizer Jeff Spanbauer Healthcare Regional Marketing Christopher Tobias, Ph.D. Dudnyk Saru Wade Vertex Pharmaceuticals Steven Walker MedImmune The Marketers Brand Ch...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 28, 2012
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    The Clinical Specialists

    Gaynor Anders MMG Olivia Montaño-Tritz Synteract Graham Nicholls Almac Clinical Technologies Sheila Rocchio PHT Sreedhar Tirunagari, M.D. MakroCare Clinical Research The Clinical Specialists A Clinical Advantage From clinical trials to clinical development, these industry leaders are capitalizing...

    By Taren Grom • July 28, 2012
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    The Researchers & Scientists

    Jerome Boscia, M.D. Janssen Research & Development Elliot Ehrich, M.D. Alkermes Marie Foegh, M.D. Agile Therapeutics The Researchers & Scientists Scientific Excellence Devoted to finding the next scientific breakthrough, these industry leaders are at the forefront of drug discovery and de...

    By Taren Grom • July 28, 2012
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    The Change Agents

    Lee Babiss, Ph.D.    PPD Jeff Berkowitz    Walgreen The Change agents (continued) Kathleen Castore    Sanofi US Cathryn Clary, M.D.     Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals Marianne Eisenmann    Chandler Chicco Companies Leigh Householder    GSW Worldwide Amir Kalali, M.D.    Quintiles Dale Kummerle, Pharm.D...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 28, 2012
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    The Entrepreneurs

    Alexis Borisy    Warp Drive Bio Betsy Brown    Trio Clinical Resourcing, an Aptiv Solutions company Faruk Capan    Intouch Solutions Marco Chacón, Ph.D.    Paragon Bioservices Terri Clevenger    Continuum Health Communications Brad Doerschuk    PharmaMed Research Michael Fergusson    Ayogo Games ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 28, 2012
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    The Commanders & Chiefs

    Adrian Adams    Auxilium Pharmaceuticals Rich Altus    PDR Network Matt Baker    Compass IRB J. Martin Carroll    Boehringer Ingelheim Leo Francis, Ph.D.    Publicis Healthcare Communications Group Lisa Costantino    EMD Serono David de Graaf, Ph.D.    Selventa Asaf Evenhaim    Crossix Solutions ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 28, 2012
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    PharmaVOICE 100 - Who's on the List by Section

    The Commanders & Chiefs 10 Adrian Adams Auxilium Pharmaceuticals Rich Altus PDR Network Matt Baker Compass IRB J. Martin Carroll Boehringer Ingelheim Leo Francis, Ph.D. Publicis Healthcare Communications Group Lisa Costantino EMD Serono David de Graaf, Ph.D. Selventa Asaf Evenhaim Crossix Sol...

    By Taren Grom • July 28, 2012
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    What's New

    What’s New New Healthcare-Related Products, Services, and Companies By Carolyn Gretton Saatchi & Saatchi Science Focuses on Complex Categories Trend: The agency’s name change reflects its vision for the future and its expertise in distilling­ ­ scientific and market data into compelling brand...

    By Carolyn Gretton • July 28, 2012
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    PharmaTrax

    Pharma Trax Sales, Marketing, And R&D Trends Affecting the Healthcare Industry By Carolyn Gretton EMR Market Shows Robust Growth Trend: The fastest sales growth and heaviest competition is being seen in EMR-related products sold to physicians, particularly solutions sold over the Internet. Pr...

    By Carolyn Gretton • July 28, 2012
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    The PV 100 Book Club

    Favorite Books Nonfiction Favorites The Innovator‚Äôs Dilemma: The ¬?Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton Christensen Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman: What Men Know About Success that Women Need to Learn by Gail Evans The Business of Being the Best: ¬?Inside th...

    By Taren Grom and Kim Ribbink • July 28, 2012
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    2012 PharmaVOICE 100 - Who's on the List by Company

    360 Vantage Mario Martinez II Agile Therapeutics Marie Foegh, M.D. Alkermes Elliot Ehrich, M.D. Almac Clinical Technologies Graham Nicholls Amgen Martin VanTrieste, R.Ph. Appature Kabir Shahani The Assay Depot Kevin Lustig, Ph.D. Auxilium Pharmaceuticals Adrian Adams Ayogo Games Michael Fergusson...

    By Taren Grom • July 28, 2012
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    Letter from the Editor

    Letter from the Editor Inspiration… Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. — Albert Einstein. Einstein might have been describing this year’s ­Pharma­VOICE 100 honorees. This distinguished group of individuals — men and women — are committed to achieving results that lead to the g...

    By Taren Grom • July 28, 2012
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    Structuring an eClinical Training Program To Improve Employee Site Performance

    Structuring an eClinical Training Program To Improve Employee Site Performance Clinical trials have the potential to represent the costliest and most time-consuming phase of product development. One study can include hundreds of patients and multiple sites, therefore sponsors, as well as CROs, mu...

    By Ellen Leinfuss • May 29, 2012
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    Solving the Numbers Game - The Three Pillars of Late-Phase Clinical Trials

    Solving the Numbers Game – The Three Pillars of Late-Phase Clinical Trials Each phase of a drug trial presents challenges, but peri-approval and post-approval studies present challenges beyond those experienced by researchers conducting earlier-stage trials. Trial sizes are larger and global in s...

    By Ramita Tandon • May 29, 2012
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    Locating Patients and Investigators for Faster Trials

    Locating Patients and Investigators for Faster Trials Where are the patients? Where are the investigators who have access to them? These are early questions in clinical trials, and it is hard to find the answers. Numerous studies show that half of clinical trials run late. Delay starts with the c...

    By Bill Gwinn • May 29, 2012
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    The Growing Role of Disease Registries in Evidence Generation

    The Growing Role of Disease Registries in Evidence Generation The current policy environment has broadened the scope of evidence that life-sciences companies must provide to healthcare stakeholders. In the United States, the focus is on comparative effectiveness research (CER), and in many other ...

    By William Crown • May 29, 2012
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    Defining the Clinical Cloud

    Defining the Clinical Cloud The term “eClinical" was jargon that the pharmaceutical industry used over the last decade, without ever agreeing on its definition. Similarly, the term “cloud" has become the latest must-have descriptor for all kinds of technologies, across virtually every business se...

    By Glen de Vries • May 29, 2012
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    The Value of Strategic Epidemiology to Inform Product Development and Commercialization

    The Value of Strategic Epidemiology to Inform Product Development and Commercialization Challenges and Changes in the Biopharmaceutical Industry Every year, the industry is confronted with an increasingly constrained environment in which to invest in research and development. Established blockbus...

    By Adrian Levy • May 29, 2012
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    Don't Get Stuck In A Clinical Trial Rut: Study Challenges, Practical Solutions, and Three Reasons Why You Need to Change

    Don’t Get Stuck In A Clinical Trial Rut: Study Challenges, Practical Solutions, and Three Reasons Why You Need to Change The entire biopharmaceutical industry is focused like never before. We are looking critically at mega-spending of global development operations and doing more with less. In an ...

    By Laurie Halloran • May 29, 2012
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    Making the Leap Toward Strategic Outsourcing

    Making the Leap Toward Strategic Outsourcing As a result of the increasing pressure placed upon pharmaceutical companies to move drugs through the pipeline efficiently and cost-effectively, companies are looking at ways to improve productivity. Faced with ever-demanding regulatory hurdles when mo...

    By Tom Avery • May 29, 2012
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    Successful Technology Integration Partnerships: A Coalition of the Willing

    Successful Technology Integration Partnerships: A Coalition of the Willing Most eClinical technology users aren’t looking for bells and whistles. They want solutions that work as promised, are easy to use, and let them focus on running the trial. Choosing specialized eClinical products over a one...

    By Garry D. Johnson • May 29, 2012
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    Patient-Centric Clinical Trials: Fad, Trend, or Future?

    Patient-Centric Clinical Trials: Fad, Trend, or Future? One of the prominent topics of discussion in biopharmaceutical R&D during the past few years has centered on methods for improving patient management in clinical trials. While clinical trials have always focused on patients, only recentl...

    By Todd Kole • May 29, 2012
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    Top 10 Patient Enrollment and Retention Myths

    Top 10 Patient Enrollment and Retention Myths Myths can Lead to Misses Today’s trial climate frustrates many clinical study teams. Operations must deliver quality trial data under intense pressures. Larger, longer, and more esoterically designed trials place a strain on patient enrollment and ret...

    By Scott H. Connor • May 29, 2012