At some point in the life of a pharmaceutical company, a whistleblower is likely to come forward with allegations of wrongdoing. The intricacies of marketing alone can create a minefield of potential mistakes. Your best defense begins now.
According to speakers at an FDA workshop, natural language processing (NLP) can be a useful way to extract meaningful information from unstructured data, such as text and tables from electronic health records (EHRs), journals, and social media, but it isn’t ready for full-scale use.
Automation’s advances and widespread integration into the scientific workflow can reduce drug R&D time from the usual 15 years to five, according to a study released by Frost & Sullivan. “Robotics already is meeting most relevant needs in drug discovery. Its impact in the coming few years will be remarkable,” says Cecilia Van Cauwenberghe, associate fellow and industry analyst, TechVision at Frost & Sullivan. “Robotics will make pharmaceutical processes significantly more costand time-effective and allow precise, real-time documentation of every task. That, in turn, contributes to process optimization.”
The number of precompetitive collaborations among pharmaceutical companies increased nine-fold between 2005 and 2014 when compared against the 1995 to 2005 period. Meanwhile, traditional partnerships merely doubled, according to “Partnering for Progress: How Collaborations are Fueling Biomedical Advances,” a new study by Deloitte and PhRMA.
Pharmaceutical companies that have, until recently, eschewed cloud computing are migrating applications into that environment. Adoption began gradually, first with functions that aren’t mission-critical. After a few years’ experience, they’re still cautious, seeking to adopt the cloud strategically while minimizing risks.
Inviting FDA scientists into your manufacturing facility or laboratory for one or two days may feel unsettling, but it can be rewarding when the visits are designed to bring FDA scientists up to speed on real-world issues and new technologies.
Two American organizations go on the record to discuss their work with Cuban researchers and their efforts to bring innovative research involving cancer vaccines and levels of consciousness (e.g., comas, brain death) to American patients.
The need for discussions regarding guidelines for the development of therapeutics made from human cells, tissues, and cell- and tissue-based products has been building for a long time.
The fascinating stories of how Akari Therapeutics and Oncolytics Biotech each faced devastating challenges in their evolution and ultimately reinvented themselves.
Top-performing pharmaceutical companies aren’t like their peers. The top six companies have each found their own “secret sauce” that, according to a recent Accenture report, helps them dominate their markets and boost profit margins far beyond those of their peers.
