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February 1, 2011
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The Building Block of Drug Discovery With Francis Collins now calling the shots at NIH, will be be able to deliver on the innovations behind the genome? |
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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... |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
Biotech, Finally The past 30 years of biological discoveries, insights into the human genome, and exotic chemical manipulation have unleashed a wave of biological drugs, many of them reengineered human proteins. |
The Motley Fool
June 11, 2007
Brian Lawler |
Johnson & Johnson's Pretty Pipeline While there are concerns about other parts of Johnson & Johnson (for example, its medical device segment), its pharmaceutical division has a robust pipeline of compounds in development that should pay off in the long haul. |
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. |
Bio-IT World
July 14, 2004 |
The True Cost of Drug Discovery A new book with the provocative title "The $800 Million Pill" threatens to "strip away pharmaceutical industry spin" about the true cost of drug development. |
BusinessWeek
March 14, 2005
Arnst & Barrett |
Another Ailing Miracle Drug Biogen's troubles with Tysabri are a setback for immune-system treatments |
Pharmaceutical Executive
April 1, 2007
Walter Armstrong |
Make It New To fix pharma's business model, nothing less than big, bold, and risky fits the bill. Two radical new visions focus on getting back to the roots of innovation -- and letting a thousand flowers bloom. |
The Motley Fool
June 2, 2009
Brian Orelli |
ASCO's Big Winner Despite the massive changes in value that some small-cap biotech companies have seen before and during this year's American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, the big winner from the confab is actually large pharmaceutical companies. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
January 29, 2010
Brian Orelli |
How to Make Billions of Dollars Without Really Trying Lackluster Alzheimer's drugs have been doing it for years. |
Bio-IT World
April 15, 2003
Mark D. Uehling |
Target Elimination Industry and FDA scientists turn to databases, applications software, and laboratory chips to move the safest, most effective molecules into clinical trials. |
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
February 1, 2006
Ron Feemster |
Gene Logic: Rescue Squad One or two late-stage clinical failures can land promising drug candidates on the shelf. Forever? Maybe not. Gene Logic tests Big Pharma's dead drugs for hundreds of different targets. |
Salon.com
August 18, 2000
Arthur Allen |
Tainted alliances Are doctors shilling for drug companies? |
The Motley Fool
June 23, 2010
Brian Orelli |
Duo of Diabetes Drug Deals Make J&J Better Licensing deals add to Johnson & Johnson's diabetes franchise. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2005
Mark J. Ahn |
It's All Academic: Biotechs Looking to Universities Pharmaceuticals and academic institutions are forming alliances at an increasing rate to exploit the promise of emerging biological insights. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Funding From an Unlikely Place Nonprofits still have money, and they seem willing to fork it over to for-profit drug companies. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
A New Approach to Valuing Biotech Stocks Enormous swings in biotechnology stock prices during the last few weeks show how difficult it is for investors to value biotech companies. It's important to understand the invisible potential locked up in the organizational structure of biotechnology companies... |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2010
Zhu Shen |
China 2020: Walled In No More Pharma sets the pace for China's ambitious new innovation agenda |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Don't Let Dummy Pills Make You a Dummy Investor Instead of being scared that the sugar pill will perform better than expected, pharma investors should factor it in and require more information before investing in companies with drugs that may be affected by it.. |
The Motley Fool
September 5, 2007
Billy Fisher |
Lilly's Pipeline Continues to Produce Another schizophrenia drug from the company shows promise in a clinical trial, prompting the company to plan additional trials. This is the latest good news in what has been a good year for Lilly. |
BusinessWeek
November 29, 2004
Catherine Arnst |
Big Pharma's Blinders Hugely profitable thanks to a few blockbusters, Big Pharma is far too focused on looking for the next best-seller, causing companies to pass up opportunities to deliver important breakthroughs. |
Fast Company
November 1, 2007
Tinker Ready |
Drug Flow and Deal Flow The news at this year's Biotech Investing confab will focus on Big Pharma companies, as they take a more active role in developing early-stage drugs. |
The Motley Fool
August 24, 2009
Brian Orelli |
J&J Would Rather Not Say Drug delayed, reason unknown. Should shareholders be worried? It's hard to tell. |
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. |
AskMen.com
Joshua Levine |
Selling Your Body To Science Have you ever thought about the number of voluntary patients who basically sell their bodies to clinical trials in the name of science? Well, the number is staggering and it can reach well into the thousands. The main reason being the large paycheck that comes with the job. |
Reason
October 2007
Ronald Bailey |
Is Industry-Funded Science Killing You? The overrated risks and underrated benefits of pharmaceutical research "conflicts of interest." |
Bio-IT World
June 12, 2002
Morris R. Levitt |
A New Economic Paradigm for Bio-IT? All who work in the bio-IT industry -- scientists, IT and informatics managers, and executives -- have been aware for some time that we seem to be suspended between an acute sense of crisis and a field of boundless opportunity. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2010
Brian Orelli |
A Witty Response to Pharma's R&D Dilemma According to GlaxoSmithKline CEO Andrew Witty, the pharmaceutical industry is a mess. That's the basic gist of his opinion piece in The Economist. |
BusinessWeek
May 24, 2004
Arlene Weintraub |
Repairing The Engines Of Life Can research into stem cells and other advanced techniques heal ailing hearts and brains? U.S. labs are hamstrung by the federal government. |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2008
Brian Orelli |
The Lethal Lessons of Eprex The FDA's concerned about J&J's blood-boosting drug. Should investors be, too? |
BusinessWeek
January 29, 2007
Arlene Weintraub |
More Merger Mania Ahead For Pharma The scramble for new drugs is keeping companies on the prowl. |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2008
Brian Orelli |
Pharma, Cash, and You Pharma's been saving for a rainy day, and there's a thunderstorm outside. |
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
November 12, 2002
James Golden |
The Business of Bioinformatics The industry has reached an interesting crossroads. As an academic branch of learning, bioinformatics remains mostly what it always was, a cross-disciplinary endeavor between computer science and molecular biology. But bioinformatics as a money-making proposition has different criteria for success. |
The Motley Fool
August 23, 2004
Ben McClure |
Rethinking Big Pharma Risk is knocking Big Pharma stocks down. They won't be getting up anytime soon. Competition, soaring R&D costs, shifting business models, and political meddling combine to make drug stocks a riskier place to invest. |
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, 2006
Brian Lawler |
The Commandments of Biotech Investing, Part 2 It's a complex field, but it's not impossible for investors to master. The more in-depth your research of a potential biotech investment, and the more you remember to follow these commandments, the better your potential for success will be when investing in this fascinating field. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Reworking the Broken R&D Model When it comes to drug development, it's becoming increasingly clear that competition isn't always the best thing for the industry. Collaborations will help bring drugs to the market more cheaply. |
The Motley Fool
September 12, 2005
M.D. Mitchell |
Big Problems for Big Pharma Creating new drugs is never easy, but the companies that excel in three key areas are the ones for investors to watch. |
The Motley Fool
January 26, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
The Pipeline to Biotech Success Looking at drug R&D is the best way to begin assessing biotech companies as possible investment opportunities. |
Bio-IT World
September 9, 2002
Malorye Branca |
The New, New Pharmacogenomics The field of pharmacogenomics proves valuable in the battle against toxicity and late-stage drug failure -- one of the pharmaceutical industry's biggest problems. |
Chemistry World
August 23, 2012
Simon Campbell |
Protecting patients at all costs A new funding model is urgently required to deliver innovative medicines that meet the medical needs of the 21st century and contribute to economic growth. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
January 1, 2007
Glass & Poli |
Forecast 2007: Connecting the Dots How do execs rank the issues facing the pharmaceutical industry? And what are the links they see between them? A new study reveals the industry's mental map of today's challenges. |
BusinessWeek
December 30, 2009
Kerry Capell |
Multiple Sclerosis: A Breakthrough Is on the Way A number of improved treatments will be available soon, and Novartis' Fingolimod could lead the way |
