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Novartis boosts vaccine pipeline

January 8, 2009 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Novartis, recruitment, vaccines

Novartis has added an investigational vaccine to its pipeline through a $20 million deal with AlphaVax. The North Carolina-based biotech …

Working Life: Les Hughes

January 8, 2009 Research and Development AstraZeneca, Cancer, clinical research, infection

How did you find your way into your role? I wanted to be a chemist from my very first experience …

Biotech in 2008

December 31, 2008 Research and Development Genentech, InClone, biotech, economy, investment

The credit crunch hits biotechBy October Europe's biotech sector was feeling severe effects from the credit crunch, with small and …

2008: A year in the life of UK pharma

December 31, 2008 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing 2008, YIR, patients, pharma, review, social networking, year in review

  Patient power proves decisive in battle for accessSocial networking helped a new breed of informed patient advocates win the …

Lilly to reduce pipeline costs by a third

December 17, 2008 Research and Development lilly, restructure

Lilly aims to reduce the cost of it bringing new molecules to market by a third.The company's goal is to …

Declaring doctor payments

December 16, 2008 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, EFPIA, Europe, UK, US, ethics, industry relations, payments

A number of pharmaceutical companies in the US have recently announced they will declare all the payments to healthcare professionals. …

UK biotech seeks bail out

December 9, 2008 Research and Development biotech

Biotech leaders in the UK say the cash-stricken industry has reached 'breaking point', and have made an unprecedented plea for …

Efficacy or effectiveness?

December 9, 2008 Research and Development Les Rose, clinical trials, evidence

The question of ‘generalisability’ – or the extent clinical trials can be applied to the real world, has been an …

Caution: you are entering phase III

December 8, 2008 Research and Development clinical trials, drug development, phase III

Patient: "I've just gone into phase III! What are my chances of coming through alive?" Doctor: "Well the prognosis is …

Pharma input vital to UK research vision

November 21, 2008 Research and Development reg

Initiatives to make the UK a world class location for medical research needs significant pharma input to be a success, …

Pfizer makes major stem cell investment

November 19, 2008 Research and Development Pfizer, regenerative medicine, stem cell

Pfizer has launched a global stem cell research unit to develop a new generation of medicines.The research unit, to be …

Targeted cancer drugs boost success rates

November 18, 2008 Research and Development

Targeted cancer drugs like Herceptin and Glivec have greatly improved pharma's oncology pipeline success rates, according to a new study. …

Good Publication Practice 2: updating best practice

November 13, 2008 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GPP, Good Publication Practice, clinical trials, ethics, journals, publication

 Results from clinical trials are the very lifeblood of the pharmaceutical industry, representing the frontline in the search for new …

MedImmune broadens drug discovery in Cambridge

November 13, 2008 Research and Development Cambridge, MedImmune

MedImmune, AstraZeneca's biotech arm, has opened a new R&D facility in Cambridge as part of a major expansion of its …
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