Prescription Drug Abuse and Prevention

America is in the midst of a prescription opioid epidemic. It is estimated that in 2016, 11.8 million Americans, or 4.4 percent of the population, age 12 years and older were nonmedical users of opioids – defined as prescription pain relievers and heroin. Of these nonmedical users, and over the course of the previous year, 10.9 million reported the misuse of only pain relievers, 641,000 reported the misuse of pain relievers and heroin, and 948,000 reported the misuse of only heroin.

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Drugs & Diagnostics for Tropical Diseases

Our mission is to develop treatments and diagnostics for neglected tropical diseases that affect the most impoverished social groups. An urgent gap in treatment technology has left millions in sub-Saharan Africa at risk of debilitating and deadly parasitic diseases--but we're developing a novel diagnostic device that will end this. There is an urgent need for a simple, rapid, and quantitative diagnostic test to detect loiasis, an infection of the parasitic roundworm Loa loa (L. loa). Even though treatments exist, there are no commercial diagnostic tests available to identify the disease and monitor treatment efficacy.

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How purpose-built tech can help pharmaceutical and life science companies streamline healthcare provider interactions

whitePaper | December 15, 2022

In today’s hypercompetitive pharmaceutical and life sciences (PLS) industry, strategic partnerships are more critical than ever. A smaller life sciences company may have relationships with hundreds of healthcare providers and healthcare organizations.

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Empowering MSLs to be the kings of Pharma’s New Frontier

whitePaper | December 12, 2022

To improve outcomes for cancer patients and take advantage of the groundbreaking scientific and technological progress made in oncology prevention, diagnosis, therapy

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Research and Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry

whitePaper | April 1, 2021

Every year, the U.S. pharmaceutical industry develops a variety of new drugs that provide valuable medical benefits. Many of those drugs are expensive and contribute to rising health care costs for the private sector and the federal government. Policymakers have considered policies that would lower drug prices and reduce federal drug expenditures. Such policies would probably reduce the industry’s incentive to develop new drugs.

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Utilizing Multi-parameter Epitope Binning to Understand aTherapeutic Antibody’s Mechanism of Action

whitePaper | January 20, 2023

Understanding an antibody’s mechanism of action (MOA) is critical to its clinical success. Not only does MOA have a large impact on safety and efficacy.

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Expediting early-phasedevelopment ofsmall molecules: Anintegrated approach

whitePaper | November 18, 2022

Small molecule drug development has changed substantially in recent years. With the heightened focus on molecularly targeted therapies, small molecule active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).

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How to optimize clinical supply chain management with Slope

whitePaper | December 15, 2022

Successful execution of clinical trials requires the orchestration of multiple moving parts, with everything from protocol design and patient visit schedules, to lab kits and biological samples needing to seamlessly line up to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery of high-quality data.

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Drugs & Diagnostics for Tropical Diseases

Our mission is to develop treatments and diagnostics for neglected tropical diseases that affect the most impoverished social groups. An urgent gap in treatment technology has left millions in sub-Saharan Africa at risk of debilitating and deadly parasitic diseases--but we're developing a novel diagnostic device that will end this. There is an urgent need for a simple, rapid, and quantitative diagnostic test to detect loiasis, an infection of the parasitic roundworm Loa loa (L. loa). Even though treatments exist, there are no commercial diagnostic tests available to identify the disease and monitor treatment efficacy.

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