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Opinion 8 Mar 2023
Should pharma be listening to social media to drive drug development?
By Thierry Escudier, consultant and strategic leader at The Pistoia Alliance The move towards patient centricity is gathering momentum, and digital technology is playing a huge role in this shift. Decentralized clinical trials that employ mobile apps and wearable devices to monitor patients and make results gathering easier are a particularly successful example of how […]
From breast to bone: Refining metastasis drug discovery with a novel organ-on-a-chip device
Understanding invasive cancer progression and metastasis formation are among the core open questions in cancer research. However, the limitations of current models lead to high failure rates in drug development. An EU-funded consortium has designed an organ-on-a-chip approach that could deliver new insights. In metastasis, circulating tumor cells spontaneously shed from the primary site to […]
In Depth 11 Jan 2023
Drug repurposing emerges as viable option for rare disease treatment
With few options available for the treatment of rare diseases, the practice of drug repurposing has gained traction as an effective strategy. With genome sequencing revealing new rare diseases, it is now known that at least 5% of the world population lives with a rare disease. Drug development must pick up the pace to keep […]
Transforming customer journeys, one step at a time: An interview with Mike Chen, CEO of ACROBiosystems
News and Trends 20 Dec 2022
Watch: Interview with IRBM’s Heidi Kingdon Jones
The IRBM Group is an innovative research and discovery CRO (contract research organization) working across all aspects of drug discovery and early development. Headquartered in Italy, the company fosters collaborations with organizations from the pharma, biotech, non-profit and academic sectors to accelerate the development of vaccines and medicines. About 250 scientists work at the company’s […]
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News and Trends 14 Dec 2022
The crucial importance of project management for healthcare startups
By Clémentine Duflot, consultant at HC NEXT In an effervescent healthcare innovation field, where risk-assessment and time-to-market are key to break through and survive, speeding and derisking drug and medical device developments to ensure each innovation becomes a product to benefit patients is essential. A drug or medical device development project requires a high level […]
News and Trends 28 Nov 2022
Aptamer opens new facilities to meet growing demand for Optimer technology
Aptamer Group developer of Optimer binders that enable development in the life sciences industry has opened new facilities in the UK’s York Science Park. It says this will enable it to meet the growing demand for Optimer technology. Well-known and respected neuroscience researcher, Baroness Susan Greenfield, opened the new 18,000 square-foot site on November 25. […]
News and Trends 15 Nov 2022
Aelis Farma’s first trial for cognitive disorder drug for Down Syndrome patients
Aelis Farma has announced positive results from its safety trials in healthy volunteers and the authorization to start the first trial in people with Down syndrome, with AEF0217, its drug candidate for the treatment of cognitive disorders. Aelis Farma is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of treatments for brain diseases, made […]
News and Trends 8 Nov 2022
BC Platforms receives $20M financing
Healthcare data management and analytics company BC Platforms (BCP) has closed a CHF 20 million ($20 million) financing round. The growth equity financing was led by new investor Jolt Capital (HQ Paris), a fully independent private equity firm that specializes in growth capital deeptech in Europe. The new financing will help accelerate the expansion of […]
News and Trends 1 Nov 2022
First to market doesn’t guarantee success
A comparison of two cancer drugs, Opdivo and Keytruda, reveals that being the first-to-market is not necessarily the main factor in a drug’s success. For the first four years since their approval, the anticancer drug Opdivo outperformed Keytruda in sales. But this trend reversed in 2018, with Keytruda’s sales becoming higher than Opdivo’s. Recently, a […]
News and Trends 4 Oct 2022
TrialSpark partners with Sanofi to acquire and develop clinical-stage novel therapies
TrialSpark has announced a new partnership with global pharma company Sanofi to explore novel methods of bringing new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently. The collaboration will focus on jointly pursuing the acquisition/in-licensing and development of best-in-class, clinical-stage phase II and phase III drug candidates in areas of high unmet patient need. The partnership […]
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