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The benefits of drug repositioning. Spring 11

By Dr Aris Persidis
Drugs in development, on the market, or those that are shelved because of lack of efficacy, are excellent starting points for further development. Finding new indications for such drugs w...
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R&D open verdict? Winter 10

By Dr Kay Wardle
As pharmaceutical companies begin to shift from in-house R&D to external partnerships and ‘open innovation’, the traditional drug discovery model may soon be a thing of the past. In t...
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Assessing the value of R&D partnerships. Winter 10

By Dr David A Pardoe, Dr Jackie Hunter MBE, Dr Robert M Cooke and Dr Paul Barrett
In response to the need to increase the return on investment in R&D, many large Pharma companies are shifting from an internal fixed resource model to more flexible, external relationship...
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Is the pharmaceutical industry open for innovation? Fall 10

By Dr Jackie Hunter CBE
Open innovation is the hot topic in many industries and this approach has the potential to make a radical difference to the costs of drug discovery and development in the pharmaceutical i...
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The Healthcare Industrys Evolving Role in Translational Research an Opportunity for Competitive Advantage. Spring 10

By Gregory Venters
During the 20th century, medical research has observed enormous advances in basic science discovery, highlighted by the sequencing of the human genome. However, we have not witnessed a co...
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Maximising the impact of technologies on drug discovery through portfolio management. Winter 09

By Charles S. Dormer, Dr Mark Beggs, Dr Lynn Brennan and Roanna London
The opportunities to invest in new technologies in drug discovery are broad and extensive. Knowing where to place your investment and ensuring return on these investments is critical to e...
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Singapore strengthens position as leading site for biopharmaceutical R&D. Winter 09

By Kian-Teik Beh Globally, pharmaceutical and biotech companies are confronted by an impending patent cliff, while being challenged with declining research and development (R&D) productivity and the need ... Read more...

Outsourcing for innovation takes on new meaning. Winter 08

By Richard Boehner Large pharmaceutical companies are moving quickly to outsource their drug discovery operations, predominantly to lower costs. This article argues that if outsourcing is done to capture va... Read more...

Living in hard times. Winter 08

By Paul Branthwaite Maintaining knowledge and experience internally is a challenge in today’s financial climate, in SMEs and in big pharma. This article provides some tips on how companies can maintain the... Read more...

Prediction v Attrition. Fall 08

By Professor Malcolm Young A substantial number of very valuable drugs have gone, or are about to go, off patent; too few good new premium drugs are coming through to market Read more...

Lean Six Sigma; its application to drug discovery. Spring 08

By Clare Hammond and Charles J O’Donnell In an increasingly competitive world, the race between pharmas to get high quality candidate drugs to market is on. Contributing to this success is the discovery phase of lead optimisatio... Read more...