CROs and other outsourced pharmaceutical support services

I n recent years, biopharmaceutical companies large and small have become increasingly reliant on the contract research organisation (CRO) sector and other clinical services specialists to provide research services across the breadth of their R&D operations. The fi nancial crisis had a signifi cant impact on CRO companies, with sponsors scaling back trial programmes, particularly in the early-stage segment covering preclinical activities and Phase I trials.

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Lifescience Dynamics Limited

Founded in 2004, Lifescience Dynamics is a decision support firm helping life science companies (pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostics and medical devices) with strategic insight and foresight to improve their assumptions, enabling them to make better decisions. Typical projects undertaken aim to address clients’ business issues and challenges to maximise the full commercial potential of their assets.

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Paving the way for pharma R&D to use FAIR data

whitePaper | December 16, 2019

The use of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data in drug discovery and development could be transformational. But the pharma industry has been slow to embrace FAIR data — partially because of difficulties in establishing the necessary infrastructure and because of internal culture.

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Association for Accessible Medicines Drug Shortages

whitePaper | June 22, 2023

Generic medicines are the backbone of the U.S. prescription drug market, supplying more than 9 out of every 10 prescriptions. And the availability of generic medicines overall is remarkably stable even during challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Best practices in viral vector analytical characterization

whitePaper | December 13, 2022

Viral vectors are a critical part of the advanced therapies supply chain as they are used to introduce the gene of interest, whether that’s into a cell intended for therapeutic gene transfer or for direct viral-mediated gene transfer into the patient.

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The Annual Clinical Trials Round-up 2021

whitePaper | October 13, 2022

In our previous edition of the Clinical Trials Roundup1, we explored the acute disruptions that the COVID-19 pandemic brought to the clinical trials landscape in 2020.

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The Next Generation of Rare Disease Drug Policy

whitePaper | April 7, 2022

The United States defines a rare disease as a condition affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the country or one in which “there is no reasonable expectation” of recovering research and development costs.1 Examples of rare diseases include genetically-linked cancers, cystic fibrosis, and debilitating pediatric conditions like Gaucher disease and spinal muscular atrophy

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Protein fingerprints pave the way for microarray comparison

whitePaper | June 9, 2022

Anaxomics has developed a novel method of analysis for microarray data based on the generation and subsequent comparison of 2D fingerprints for each sample. Microarray results are incorporated into a protein interaction network and embedded with all sorts of biological and medical data.

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Lifescience Dynamics Limited

Founded in 2004, Lifescience Dynamics is a decision support firm helping life science companies (pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostics and medical devices) with strategic insight and foresight to improve their assumptions, enabling them to make better decisions. Typical projects undertaken aim to address clients’ business issues and challenges to maximise the full commercial potential of their assets.

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