1. Category: Trial Design and Logistics

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    1. Budget Woes Stall Clinical Trials and Stymie Sites

      Explore Bio-IT World (Feb 20 2012)

      Imagine buying a new car or a new house but not knowing the price until the papers have already been drawn up and it’s time to sign on the dotted line. According to Christine Pierre, President of RxTrials, that’s exactly the situation investigative sites face as they attempt to negotiate budgets and contracts for clinical trials.


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    2. Why Bristol-Myers Squibb Could Break Out This Year

      Explore The Motley Fool (Feb 15 2012)

      Why Bristol-Myers Squibb Could Break Out This Year

      Comment Mentions:   FDA   Merck & Co Inc   Bristol-Myers Squibb

    3. How to Successfully Repurpose a Drug

      Explore WSJ Blogs (Feb 14 2012)

      As today’s WSJ reports, there is growing interest in running clinical trials that repurpose drugs that have already won FDA approval for another disease.

      Comment Mentions:   FDA   National Institutes of Health   NIH

    4. FDA unveils biosimilars guidance

      Explore Nature Publishing Group (Feb 9 2012)

      Move could open the door to cheaper generic versions of biological drugs.

      Comment Mentions:   FDA   European Medicines Agency

    5. Craig Lipset on the Recruitment Mind Shift

      Explore Applied Clinical Trials (Feb 9 2012)

      REMOTE is the first-ever ran­domized clinical trial under an in­vestigational new drug (IND) application in which the study is managed entirely us­ing electronic tools and allows subjects to participate in the clinical trial regardless of their proximity to clinical sites. Pfizer’s pi­lot project uses mobile phone and Web-based technology to collect necessary data for the trial, without clinic visits. The trial was announced last June. And this month  ACT, Editor-in-Chief Lisa Henderson talked t

      Comment Mentions:   Pfizer Inc

    6. Picture Perfect: Imaging in Drug Discovery and Translational Medicine

      Explore Bio-IT World (Feb 7 2012)

      Bio-IT World | Imaging in drug discovery has been rising to the forefront of conversations more and more recently. Managing editor Allison Proffitt spoke with Ken Kilgore, Director of Immunology Pharmacology at Janssen Research & Development (formerly Centocor Research & Development), a Johnson & Johnson company, about how—and why—imaging’s role is changing in drug discovery.

      Comment Mentions:   Novartis International AG   Pfizer Inc   Johnson & Johnson

    7. Dana-Farber lands $10M for cancer research

      Explore Business News (Feb 1 2012)

      Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has been awarded a $10 million grant rom the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to support the expansion of its cancer imaging research program, Mass High Tech reports. Funding for the grant comes from the state’s 10-year, $1 billion Life Sciences Initiative. The money will support the establishment of Dana-Farber's Molecular Cancer Imaging Facility, a $20 million research initiative in South Boston to develop new molecular imaging probes. As MHT reports, the imaging facility will expand several of Dana-Farber’s basic and clinical research enterprisesfocused on developing targeted cancer therapies.

      Comment Mentions:   Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    8. Bush Doctrine: The Pharmaceutical Safety Data Problem

      Explore Bio-IT World (Jan 27 2012)

      Bio-IT World | The Bush Doctrine: What the industry calls “safety data” covers everything from discovery-oriented in vitro or cell based studies to extensive GLP toxicology study data, voluminous clinical study records, and post-marketing/pharmacovigilance systems. It leads one to wonder: does anyone have informatics systems that allow safety investigators across the pharma enterprise to effectively mine this ocean of information?

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    9. Researchers defend benefits of mutant flu research

      Explore Nature Publishing Group (Jan 25 2012)

      A dire lack of global virus surveillance doesn't negate the potential of mutation monitoring, argue two researchers behind the mutant flu research.

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    10. 19 Clinical Trials Aren't Enough

      Explore Fool.com (Jan 20 2012)

      The FDA rejects Bristol-Myers and AstraZeneca's dapagliflozin.

      Comment Mentions:   FDA   AstraZeneca   The Food and Drug Administration

    11. Medidata: Integrating Infrastructure for Clinical Trials

      Explore Bio-IT World (Jan 18 2012)

      Bio-IT World | Glen de Vries thought he would be teaching biology or chemistry in college, but somewhere en route to a satisfying career in academic research, he got distracted. Bio•IT World chief editor Kevin Davies spoke to de Vries about the progress of Medidata and the state of e-clinical technology in general.

      Comment Mentions:   SAP   Kevin Davies, Ph.D.   Medidata

    12. FDA Has (Some) Social Media Advice For Pharma

      Explore WSJ Blogs (Jan 9 2012)

      Last month, the FDA released draft guidance on "responding to unsolicited requests for off-label information about prescription drugs and medical devices."

      Comment Mentions:   FDA

    13. Knome’s New CEO Signals New Directions in Genome Interpretation

      Explore Bio-IT World (Jan 9 2012)

      Bio-IT World | Knome, the first company to offer direct-to-consumer genome analysis, has appointed neurologist and biotech executive Martin Tolar as its new CEO as it seeks to push further into two prime markets for genome interpretation software -- biopharma and clinical genomics.

      Comment Mentions:   Harvard Medical School   Pfizer Inc   Beckman Coulter

    14. Bristol-Myers buying Inhibitex for $2.5 billion

      Explore MarketWatch (Jan 8 2012)

      Bristol-Myers Squibb purchasing Inhibitex, a specialist in hepatitis C treatments, for $2.5 billion

      Comment Mentions:   Bristol-Myers Squibb   Bristol-Myers

    15. Quintiles consolidates patient communities into new Digital Patient unit

      Explore pmlive.com (Jan 6 2012)

      Contract research organisation Quintiles has combined its digital patient resources, including two online patient communities, into a single unit. The company’s new Digital Patient unit will bring together MediGuard.org and ClinicalResearch.com to offer its pharma clients a more efficient patient recruitment service.

      Comment Mentions:   Microsoft Corp   Google Inc   Quintiles

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