Research & Development: Page 88

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    The Researchers & Scientists

    Matthew Coffey, Ph.D. Barry Eisenstein, M.D. Robert Lanza, M.D. Christine Smith Ana Szarfman, M.D., Ph.D. From discovery through clinical development, the researchers and scientists behind the medicines are making a significant impact on the pipelines of today and of the future. Current positions...

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    The Technologists

    These innovators of technology-based solutions are improving connections across silos to facilitate the drug-development process and customer interactions. PharmaVOICE 100 July/August 2007 Vikas Vats The Sky’s the limit for innovation Current position VP, marketRx Place and date of Birth New Delh...

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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.   

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    Inverting the Enrollment Trend of Clinical Trials

    Inverting the Enrollment Trend of Clinical Trials One of the largest challenges facing the industry today is inverting the trend of clinical trials failing to complete enrollment on time. Raising awareness of a particular clinical trial with call-to-action advertising, such as broadcast televi...

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    Guidance and Technology: A Single-Source Solution

    Guidance and Technology: A Single-Source Solution Rick Piazza, VP, Product Strategy In today’s technology-reliant clinical-trial studies, it is crucial that software providers maintain a staff of in-house experts to offer counsel and guidance to sponsors. These experts act as process partne...

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    New Techniques Drive Patient Enrollment for Trials

    New Techniques Drive Patient Enrollment for Trials The number of clinical trials for new drugs continues to grow, increasing the competition for patients. IMS data show that new drug-discovery technologies are fueling record worldwide growth. There are more than 13,000 studies projected for 20...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Clinical Services: Managing the Moving Parts

    Clinical Services: Managing the Moving Parts By Taren Grom, Editor The Cost of Doing Business The cost of drug development remains on the rise, with most estimates showing that the clinical-trials stage alone accounts for 40% of all costs related to R&D. Our Forum experts discuss...

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    Table of Contents

    Letter from the Editor The Forum Clinical Services: Managing the Moving Parts — The clinical-research process is complex and requires integrated, sophisticated processes, technologies, and management to reduce costs, improve timelines, and produce safe therapeutics. Company Listing by Topic of In...

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    Integration and Workflow Issues for Clinical-Services Providers to Ensure Smooth Trials

    Integration and Workflow Issues for Clinical-Services Providers to Ensure Smooth Trials Mary T. Stefanzick, Associate Director of Operations An ongoing imperative in clinical research for pharma and biotech companies is to accelerate processes and timelines to get new products to market ...

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    Overcoming Poor Quality Data for ECG Collection

    Overcoming Poor Quality Data for ECG Collection Timothy Callahan, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer The ICH E14 has become the touchstone guideline when designing and implementing Thorough QT (TQT) trials. Even protocols that are not designed primarily as a QT trial often use recommendations fr...

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    Using Advanced Simulation in Clinical Operations

    Using Advanced Simulation in Clinical Operations Jack Porter, President and CEO, ePharmamindshare The introduction of supercomputers and sophisticated simulation software for planning and optimizing clinical trials is rapidly becoming established in the pharmaceutical industry. These simulati...

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    Benefits of Using an EDC System to Collect and Reconcile Serious Adverse Events

    Benefits of Using an EDC System to Collect and Reconcile Serious Adverse Events Gary Tyson, Senior VP, Clinical Development Practice Marybeth Lynch, Associate Practice Executive, Clinical Development Practice Collecting and reconciling adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs)...

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    Pediatric Patient Retention: It's not Child's Play

    Pediatric Patient Retention: It’s not Child’s Play Elizabeth Moench President and CEO Samantha Cook Pediatric Account Manager John Hartigan VP, Creative and Editorial Services The Ever-Changing Population A universal challenge of conducting long-term pediatric studies is the constant ...

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    The ROI of ePRO

    The ROI of ePRO Phil Lee, President and CEO The power of listening to the patient voice by using e-diary systems to collect the best PRO data possible and manage subject enrollment, compliance, and safety in real time may still be overlooked by some sponsors, who are hesitant to switch to eP...

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    Letter from the Editor

    rug development is a lengthy, complex, and expensive process, requiring hundreds of moving parts to act in concert to bring a therapeutic agent safely to market. According to the Association of Clinical Research Organizations, bringing a new drug or medical device to market can take 20 years an...

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    Pharma Solutions and Services: The Wider Landscape

    Pharma Solutions and Services: The Wider Landscape by Jeffrey Smith, Managing Director Given the central role of pharmaceuticals in the single largest U.S. economic sector, and the extent to which the pharma industry is information-driven, the already very act...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Clinical Resource Management: New Strategy Minimizes Co-Employment Risk

    Clinical Resource Management: New Strategy Minimizes Co-Employment Risk inVentiv Clinical Solutions LLC The approval of a new drug candidate is typically impacted by hundreds, if not thousands, of people during the development cycle. Without talented people, the clinical development plan is...

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    An Emissary for Patients -- Kathy Giusti

    An Emissary for Patients — Kathy Giusti Nonprofit and successful business are terms seldom spoken together, yet demonstrably this is the way to achieve results. Make no mistake, uniting these two concepts takes a truly special individual. Kathy Giusti, founder and CEO of the Multiple Myeloma Rese...

    By Kim Ribbink • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Last Word

    ACRO’s Chair Jeffrey McMullen In December 2006, Jeffrey McMullen, president and CEO of PharmaNet Development Group, was elected chair of the Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO), Washington, D.C. (For more information about ACRO, visit acrohealth.org.) He is joined on the board b...

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    UpFront

    ACRP conference Record Attendance The 2007 ACRP Global Conference and Exposition in Seattle drew more than 2,700 attendees, making this year’s event one of the most successful for the organization. The association is positioned as the primary resource for clinical research professionals in the ph...

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    Managed Markets: Pharmacists

    Playing a Pivotal Role Experts believe that pharmacists are ideally positioned to help patients better manage their drug therapies, as such they play a pivotal role helping seniors navigate the new Medicare Part D prescription drug plan. By Denise Myshko Pharmacists across the United States conti...

    By Denise Myshko • Jan. 2, 2008
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    E-Media

    New Electronic and Web-based Applications, Sites, and Technologies HealthCentral Introduces Online Network The HealthCentral Network (THCN) has relaunched its network of sites to better meet the needs of today’s patients. Each Website offers interactive medical information targeted to a specific ...

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    Talent Pool

    Pharma POOL Dr. Zhi Hong GSK Appoints Head, Infectious-Diseases Research Center Healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia, has appointed Zhi Hong, Ph.D., to lead a newly organized research unit dedicated to discovering therapies for infectious diseases. Dr. Hong heads the Infectious Diseas...

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    Raise Your Voice -- Letters

    Project Teams Can Benefit from Better Data The one thing we see more than anything else, regardless of company size, is a lack of trustworthy data. — Karen Briegs, Director, 3C Company Embracing Business Intelligence It was so interesting to read the thoughts of the various project managers on th...

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    On the Calendar

    On the Calendar June 2007 June 17-21 DIA 43rd Annual Meeting Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta PharmaVOICE is exhibiting at this event. For more information, contact Drug Information Association at 215-442-6100, e-mail [email protected], or visit diahome.org. June 18-19 3rd Annual Medical Devi...

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    Strategic Patient Adherence Awards

    The SPA Awards cosponsored by CBI and PharmaVOICE were presented at the 6th Annual Forum on Patient Compliance, Adherence and Persistency. 6th annual Forum on patient compliance, adherence and persistency Informative presentations, executive thought leadership, and a prestigious awards ceremony p...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008