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The Motley Fool March 6, 2009 Brian Orelli	For Drug Companies, R&D Is Spelled C-R-O It seems likely that more and more pharma companies will try to get more bang for their bucks by spending them on research and development done outside the company, outsourcing it to clinical research organizations.
CIO October 15, 2001 Stephanie Overby	Drug Companies on speed The marriage of IT and medical research may be just what traditional pharmaceutical companies need to survive in an increasingly competitive field. Learn how IT is bringing the pharmaceutical industry into the information age...
Bio-IT World March 17, 2004	Pharma's Genomic Harvest How Pfizer plans to meet its goal of 20 new drug applications by 2006.
Bio-IT World August 2005 John Russell	Pfizer's Model of Success Pfizer Global Research & Development began using sophisticated modeling technology and collaboration software to speed its race to a go-no-go decision on a cholesterol-lowering drug project. Killing the project sooner saved up to $2.8 million in costs and six months in delay.
The Motley Fool December 27, 2007 Brian Orelli	Drugmaker Growth: The China Connection Just like other industries, the pharmaceutical industry has realized that China is a good place to find cheap labor. While reluctant to set up FDA-regulated manufacturing plants in China, other stages of drug development can be done there.
The Motley Fool September 16, 2008 Brian Lawler	Pfizer Puts Safety First Increased FDA scrutiny may motivate the pharmaceutical's new drug-safety site.
Bio-IT World November 12, 2002 Michael Goldman	A Virtual Pharmacopeia Computational modeling of disease pathways, organs --- even patients --- could transform drug discovery. Does salvation exist in silico?
The Motley Fool November 30, 2007 Brian Orelli	Clinical Trial Failures Don't Bother These Companies Contract research organizations, outsourcing companies hired by pharmaceutical and biotech companies to run pre-clinical tests and clinical trials for them, succeed even when drugs fail, and more work may be coming their way.
BusinessWeek October 18, 2004 Catherine Arnst	The Waning of the Blockbuster Drug What's promising now are drugs that target niche diseases. That means painful restructuring ahead for Big Pharma
Bio-IT World September 2006 Kevin Davies	Pfizer's Global Survey of Pharmacological Space The pharma blends knowledge, computational chemistry and research informatics to build a unified database. Gathering all the data in one place offered greater control for indexing and data retrieval and management, enabling Pfizer scientists to perform global mapping.
The Motley Fool June 20, 2011 Luke Timmerman	Pfizer's Idea to Fix the Drug Development Crisis, Which Probably Won't Work (But Just Might) In a worst-case scenario, Pfizer flushes a few hundred million dollars down the tubes. What's the best-case scenario?
BusinessWeek December 13, 2004 Bruce Einhorn	Go East, Big Pharma Drugmakers are expanding in China, but patents are still a worry.
Chemistry World February 2, 2007 Victoria Gill	AstraZeneca Follows Pfizer in Slashing Workforce The Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical hopes that by streamlining its operation it can offset the growing financial threat from cheap generic copies of its best-selling blood pressure drug. Nevertheless, the company has reported unexpectedly cheerful fourth quarter profits.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2009 Brian Orelli	2009: The Year Pharma Learned to Love Itself While anything is possible, don't expect too much more consolidation of major drugmakers in 2010 and beyond.
The Motley Fool March 3, 2010 Brian Orelli	A Costly Missed Connection Dimebon's phase 3 failure costs Medivation shareholders 67%.
The Motley Fool November 21, 2007 Brian Lawler	Pfizer Finds an Old Friend Pfizer announces its purchase of partner Coley Pharmaceutical, securing Coley's novel technology for targeting toll-like receptors.
The Motley Fool December 21, 2010 Brian Orelli	4 Drugmakers, 5 Deals, Christmas Is Here It looks like there were a lot of people in the business development offices at pharmaceutical companies looking to get their work done before taking off for the holidays. Check out all the deals that were announced yesterday.
Chemistry World December 1, 2014 Derek Lowe	Progress at the pace of the slowest Chemistry is a means to an end in drug research, not an end in itself, and that can take some getting used to. It's worth thinking about where chemistry fits into the big picture.
The Motley Fool May 14, 2008 Brian Lawler	Teaching Old Drugs New Tricks Pfizer's top drugs post mixed results in recent off-label studies.
BusinessWeek February 28, 2005 Amy Barrett	Pfizer's Funk Pfizer CEO Hank McKinnell helped pioneer the age of blockbuster drugs. The company now spends twice as much on sales and administrative expenses as it does on R&D. But a dearth of new products and fears over drug safety are hurting the entire industry. Is there a fix?
Bio-IT World July 11, 2002 Kevin Davies	Counting the Cost of Drug Discovery Much of the trouble ensnaring the drug industry is blamed on the exorbitant cost of drug discovery. Tangible proof that the bio-IT revolution will economize drug discovery is emerging, but there is still a long way to go.
BusinessWeek June 28, 2004 Amy Barrett	When Medicine And Money Don't Mix Do drugmakers have too much control over lab data?
The Motley Fool May 21, 2010 Brian Orelli	And You Thought Biotech Was High-Risk, High-Reward Large clinical trials make cardiovascular drugs risky, but the rewards are there, too.
The Motley Fool March 26, 2009 Brian Orelli	Big Pharma's R&D Model Is Broken Bigger isn't always better.
Bio-IT World March 2006 Salvatore Salamone	Pfizer Digs Deeper in Mining Trial Data Besides using the information mined from past trials to help design new studies, examine new uses for a drug, or study ways to minimize risks, the data-mining efforts are also being applied to looking at how drugs on the market are being used.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Brian Orelli	Questioning Pfizer's Integrity Pfizer's epilepsy drug Neurontin has had generic competition for a few years, but it's still plaguing the pharmaceutical giant.
The Motley Fool January 14, 2008 Brian Lawler	Worst Stock for 2008: Pfizer This analyst thinks that Pfizer is a good company, but a bad stock for 2008.
The Motley Fool August 1, 2008 Brian Orelli	Recession Schmession, This Industry Is On Fire Contract research organizations do pre-clinical research and run clinical trials for drug developers on the cheap. With pharmaceutical companies cutting back on costs, CROs are in the perfect position to benefit.
Fast Company June 2004 Bill Breen	The Thrill of Defeat Want to know how to motivate people to take on tough odds? Ask the folks in Pfizer's labs, where managing failure is a fine art and superhuman persistence an everyday habit.
The Motley Fool October 20, 2006 Brian Lawler	Pfizer Keeps Fighting If Pfizer's management can succeed on its cost-savings initiatives and maintain the high single digits of earnings-per-share growth that it expects in 2007-2008, then Pfizer may make a good investment for those willing to wait for the company's new drugs to bring back higher growth.
The Motley Fool July 17, 2007 Brian Orelli	An Investor's Guide to the New PDUFA It's important for investors in drug companies to keep up with the latest clinical trial news, but policy changes in Washington can affect companies' bottom lines just as much.
The Motley Fool May 18, 2010 Brian Orelli	Pfizer Double-Dips Is this the best way to go after multiple indications? The drugs are already approved or have been in the clinic for other indications; thus the double-dipping.
The Motley Fool October 9, 2008 Brian Orelli	When Science, Marketing, and Investing Collide How a pharmaceutical tries to sell more drugs can provide clues about its management.
Inc. May 2006 Alison Stein Wellner	Turning the Tables The outsourcing trend almost killed Kalexsyn - until its founders made globalization work in their favor.
The Motley Fool September 9, 2004 Charly Travers	The Case for Drug Stocks The reports of the drug industry's death are greatly exaggerated.
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2007 Weiner & Hovde	Critical Mass for Critical Path? Everyone agrees that it's the road to pharma's future, but no one's rushing to take it. Yet with growing FDA advocacy and new advances in biomarkers and drug-disease modeling, the rewards of collaboration now look greater than the risks.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2007 Brian Lawler	Dueling Fools: Pfizer Bear It's been a blue chip for years, but that doesn't mean it will stay that way forever. It's inconceivable for Pfizer's market capitalization to be valued at $188 billion four years from now, when its revenues could be 40% lower than they are today.
The Motley Fool January 31, 2011 Brian Orelli	Pharma Goes Back to School But will it produce more drugs? The pharmaceutical industry is headed back to school, with a number of large drugmakers announcing partnerships with universities.
Bio-IT World November 14, 2003 John Dodge	Pfizer's Man with the R&D Plan As Pfizer senior vice president, science and technology, Peter B. Corr oversees $7.1 billion in annual research and development spending, the biggest private R&D budget in the world. In this interview, Corr talks about IT, clinical trials, and his $7-billion budget.
The Motley Fool June 1, 2007 Brian Lawler	The Generic Cracks Open for Pfizer Pfizer loses a patent case over its top compound. The larger takeaway from the Lipitor legal saga is that investors always need to be aware of the strength of a drug company's patents throughout the world.
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Bio-IT World August 13, 2002 Mark D. Uehling	Clinical Trial Data Management: Tortured by Paper Reams of paper stuffed into boxes and shipped to the FDA by the truckload is hardly the best approach to drug approval. But what's the right way?
The Motley Fool March 17, 2008 Brian Orelli	Drugmakers That Make Rivals Green with Envy A look at some drugmakers with cash to spend: Pfizer...Wyeth... Novartis... Amylin Pharmaceuticals... Elan...Vertex Pharmaceuticals... Exelixis...
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Bio-IT World April 2006 John Russell	Pfizer's Pursuit of Technology Can this $50-billion-plus, 115,000-employee behemoth succeed where other pharma giants have failed and successfully institutionalize the effort to find and develop critical new technology? Should it even try?
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The Motley Fool January 15, 2009 Robert Steyer	For Pfizer, a Big Buy Could Be a Big Mistake Pfizer's CEO says the company must make a big, bold buy to reverse course on its skidding stock and to blast it out of its revenue doldrums. Is it the right move?
Investment Advisor December 2005 Greg B. Scott	Buying The Future Prudent investing in biotechnology can offer great returns for clients. It's also the wave of the future. Armed with a basic understanding of the dynamics of the industry and the valuation inflection points, intelligent investors can make significant returns.
Chemistry World February 2, 2011 Andy Extance	Pfizer to close historic UK site Most of the 2400 people employed at the Pfizer site in Sandwich, UK, will be made redundant over the next 18-24 months as the US pharma giant restructures its research operations.