Les Rose
Does drug development deliver on its promises?
October 24, 2011Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Les Rose, R&D
I am always guided by the motto of the Royal Society, ‘Nullius in Verba’. This means, with typical Latin brevity: …
Analysis paralysis – how to get the true measure of clinical trials
July 20, 2011Research and Development Les Rose, clinical trials
The great physicist Lord Kelvin famously said: “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in …
Evil big pharma: myth or material?
April 6, 2011Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Les Rose, industry reputation
In the US the False Claims Act regulates those who attempt to defraud the government. In the last 20 years, …
Health outcomes – does anything else matter?
October 27, 2010Research and Development Les Rose, evidence-based medicine, healthcare outcomes, randomised controlled trials
So the mould of British politics has been broken, and we now have a government with probably a broader range …
Not so new technologies
July 28, 2010Research and Development EDC, Les Rose, digital research
Let me take you back to a time that is now only dimly remembered. I don’t mean a time when …
Power to the project manager
July 14, 2010Research and Development Les Rose, project management
It’s an interesting exercise to peruse the job ads these days, even if you are not actually looking for a …
Drug development: where’s the added investment value?
February 18, 2010Research and Development CRO, Les Rose, R&D, biotech, funding
Venture capital is a curious business. The global financial crisis which we are slowly emerging from has exposed some rather …
Building value – is the pipeline all that matters?
December 1, 2009Research and Development Les Rose, biotech, venture capital
Venture capital is a curious business and the global financial crisis in which we find ourselves has exposed some rather …
Whatever happened to yesterday’s ‘magic bullets’?
November 3, 2009Research and Development Les Rose, biotech
How many of you remember when monoclonal antibodies were called `magic bullets’? Enough time has passed since the term first …
Is the law good for your health?
June 30, 2009Research and Development Les Rose, law, science
A lawyer once told me that the law has nothing to do with morals. This wasn’t really a surprise, but …
Efficacy or effectiveness?
December 9, 2008Research 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 …
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