Articles By Suzanne Elvidge
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Deal Building From Testing The Water To Hitting The Market
2/7/2018
The story of how Oxford BioMedica won a key contract from Novartis to provide the commercial and clinical supply of lentiviral vectors used to produce the Big Pharma's CAR-T cell therapy Kymriah.
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Alternatives To Funding Lower-Priority Trials
8/9/2017
While some pharma companies struggle to backfill their pipelines, others find the opposite, that they have more development opportunities than they can pursue. While this may seem to be a nice problem to have, it also means that otherwise good drug candidates may be pushed down the list of priorities.
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Bridging The Gap Between Academia, Small Biotechs, And Industry
6/7/2017
Academia and biotech have long been sources of innovation for the pharmaceutical industry, and this is increasingly important for Big Pharmas that want to prop up flagging pipelines or boost particular areas of focus.
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Women In Bio: Looking Through The Glass Ceiling
11/1/2016
“When I started in biopharma, attending research and business meetings, I was surprised by the overrepresentation of men. I had expected health to be a more feminized area,” says Karen Aiach, founder and CEO, Lysogene.
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The Increasing Importance Of Real-World Evidence In Drug Development
9/1/2016
Market access is all about getting the right drugs to the right patients at the right time and for the right price. But to do so, every pharma or biotech company must face a mounting set of challenges, including, most prominently, high research costs and tighter budgets.
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The Uphill Battle Toward Innovation For Antibiotic Resistance
5/1/2016
The discovery of antibiotics as a class of drugs, based on Alexander Fleming’s breakthrough in 1928, seemed like a miracle, with potential to rid people and animals of the scourge of bacterial infection. However, by 1947, just four years after the beginning of mass production of penicillin, the first penicillin-resistant strain of staphylococcus aureus had emerged.
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GW Pharmaceuticals Changes Its Focus To Rare Diseases
4/1/2016
The pharma company’s original focus was on the use of cannabis to relieve spasticity from MS, but now its pursuing rare and orphan indications, where there are limited or no other treatment options.
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The Evolution Of CRO Reimbursement: Shifting From Task-Driven Units To Desired Outputs
7/1/2015
Over the years, pharma and biotech companies have looked to create better models to speed drug development and make it quicker, more efficient, and more effective, and this includes using the specialist expertise in clinical research organizations to carry out clinical development.
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The Strength At The Interface: Academia Meets Biopharma Industry
7/31/2014
Collaborations between academia and industry are becoming more common as biopharma companies, both large and small, see the value gained from different approaches.
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Biotechnology In The U.K.: Growing And Changing
4/2/2013
The U.K. has a long heritage in life science and medicine. It’s biotech sector hopes to continue to build on that tradition.