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Novo Nordisk partners with Microsoft for AI-driven drug discovery

Pharmaceutical Technology

Novo Nordisk has signed a new strategic partnership with Microsoft to expedite the discovery and development of drugs leveraging big data and artificial intelligence (AI). Under the deal, Microsoft's computational services, Cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) will be merged with the drug discovery, development and data science expertise of Novo Nordisk.

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Digital health transformation requires holistic not episodic care

MedCity News

By following the patient at each stage of its disease progression, from diagnosis to disease management, and integrating a variety of technologies, digital health provides deeper insights and help for care management.

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3D Printed Tablets for Controlled Drug Release

Medgadget

Researchers at the University of the Basque Country have developed a technique that allows them to 3D print pharmaceutical tablets using different types of starch. By modifying the types of starch used and the shape of the tablets, the team can fine-tune drug release to be either rapid or slow. This includes full release of the encapsulated drug in as little as ten minutes to as long as six hours, providing significant scope to address a wide variety of therapeutic situations.

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CCC Launches OA Agreement Intelligence

Copyright Clearance Center

Sept. 13, 2022 – Danvers, Mass. – CCC , a leading provider of Open Access (OA) workflow solutions, has launched OA Agreement Intelligence , the only agreement modeling solution that enables publishers to prepare, build, and analyze their OA data so that they can create and communicate sustainable and transparent agreements with their partners. The solution combines sophisticated data preprocessing with easy-to-use analysis and export capabilities.

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Unlocking Excellence: How Catalent Is Transforming Japan’s Clinical Research

Planning on running clinical trials in Japan? How can you reliably supply these studies? Discover Catalent’s clinical supply packaging facility in Shiga, Japan. Strategically located between Tokyo and Osaka, and one of largest in Japan, this 6,000 square meter facility offers comprehensive services including primary and secondary clinical packaging and labelling, comparator sourcing, cold chain storage, local and global distribution, local language support and white glove service to support stud

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Potrero Medical Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for Accuryn AKI Predict Algorithm

Legacy MEDSearch

Potrero Medical announced that the FDA granted Breakthrough Device Designation for their AKI Predict machine learning algorithm, for the advanced prediction of acute kidney injury (AKI) associated with intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) in cardiac post-surgical intensive care patients. Joe Urban, Potrero CEO stated “We celebrate the breakthrough designation, and we are excited about what this will mean for patients, providers and health systems in the future.” Urban further commented

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Feds could soon bring COVID-style fight to superbug threat

PharmaVoice

COVID-19 has inspired renewed urgency in the need for weapons to combat antimicrobial resistant infections and new hope of government funding to meet the challenge.

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Report: California needs to treat rising levels of violence like a public health crisis

MedCity News

Violence is common and increasing across California, according to new research. Despite this trend, the report said statewide violence prevention programs are ill-funded and treated as a non-priority. It advocated for more policy that addresses the root causes of violence by improving the financial, social and emotional security of vulnerable populations.

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Granular Hydrogels for Improved Bioinks

Medgadget

Researchers at Penn State have developed a granular hydrogel that contains both hydrogel microparticles and self-assembling nanoparticles, and which could be highly suited for bioprinting purposes. The concept involves the nanoparticles becoming adsorbed onto the hydrogel microparticles and reversibly adhering the microparticles together, providing a printed gel structure that is porous enough to permit cell viability, but which maintains a desired shape and mechanical properties.

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Novome gets $43.5M boost for its engineered microbiome therapies

MedCity News

Novome Biotechnologies — a biotech that CEO Blake Wise says is only company to pursue engineered cell therapy with microbes for the treatment of chronic diseases — raised $43.5 million in Series B funds. The biotech will use the money to advance clinical testing for its lead drug candidate, which seeks to decrease patients’ urinary oxalate, as well as advance its pipeline of preclinical genetically engineered microbes.

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The Art of the Deal: How Data Quality Makes or Breaks Open Access Agreements

Copyright Clearance Center

The post The Art of the Deal: How Data Quality Makes or Breaks Open Access Agreements appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Beyond telehealth: How tailored care can improve outcomes for vulnerable populations

MedCity News

Before we can consider telehealth as part of ongoing, longitudinal healthcare, there are major issues that need to be addressed, including integration with traditional healthcare services, and inequities among patient subgroups that arise out of economic, infrastructure, and technological barriers.

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Kekule Pharma Limited-Walk-Ins for QC/ QA/ Production/ R&D/ Regulatory Affairs/ Maintenance/ IT On 13th to 17th Sept’ 2022

Pharma Pathway

Kekule Pharma Limited-Walk-Ins for QC/ QA/ Production/ R&D/ Regulatory Affairs/ Maintenance/ IT On 13th to 17th Sept’ 2022. Job Description. Kekule Pharma Limited, A Leading USFDA approved Pharmaceutical Company is looking for Dynamic young Energetic, Creative and talented Candidates for the following positions at our API Unit located in Hyderabad.

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How to Hit Your Medical Sales Targets

MedReps

Are you worried about hitting your medical sales target? If so, you aren’t alone. Many of your fellow salespeople feel the same and are also wondering what they can do in order to meet their sales quotas. Thankfully, there are a number of different techniques you can use in order to be successful. Ready to learn how to hit your medical sales targets with ease?

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Nimbus Therapeutics secures $125M in financing for clinical programs

MedCity News

This funding round was led by Bain Capital Life Sciences and SV Health Investors. They join existing investors, including Bill Gates and Access Biotechnology. The money will be used to support several clinical trials.

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Roles and Responsibilities of Specialized Clinical Supply Experts

When selecting a clinical supply provider, consideration often focuses upon the manufacturing, packaging, storage and distribution capabilities available that will, at face-value, be sufficient to meet the needs of the sponsor and their trial. However, there are human-based and knowledge-driven factors that are often overlooked that go beyond these basic physical capabilities and are integral to the development and delivery of high performing clinical supply chains.

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Pulse Nutri Science- Openings for Production/ Warehouse/ QA/ QC Departments -Apply Now

Pharma Pathway

Pulse Nutri Science- Openings for Production/ Warehouse/ QA/ QC Departments -Apply Now. Job Description. Greetings from Pulse Nutri Science.!!! Openings for Production/ Warehouse/ QA/ QC Departments @ Pulse Nutri Science. Departments : Production/ Warehouse/ QA/ QC. Designation: Executive/ Jr. Executive. Qualification: B. Pharmacy/ M.Sc/ B.Sc/ M.Pharma/ Any Graduate.

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Metabolic disease biotech Akero achieves key clinical trial win in liver disease NASH

MedCity News

Akero Therapeutics’ experimental NASH drug, efruxifermin, met the main and secondary goals of Phase 2b clinical trial. The biotech will still need to show that the drug’s efficacy can hold up in a pivotal study, but the results so far are a positive sign for the NASH field, which has been marred by clinical trial failures.

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Hetero Labs Limited-Walk-In Interviews for QA/ Production On 17th Sept’ 2022

Pharma Pathway

Hetero Labs Limited-Walk-In Interviews for QA/ Production On 17th Sept’ 2022. Job Description. Hetero Labs Limited is one of India’s generic pharmaceutical companies and the “world’s largest producer of anti- retroviral drugs”. Hetero’s business includes APIs, generic, biosimilars, custom pharmaceutical services, and branded generics. HETERO is one of the India’s leading generic pharmaceutical companies and is one of the world’s largest producer of anti-retroviral drugs for the treatment o

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Checkpoint inhibitor combination shows promise in Merkel cell carcinoma

European Pharmaceutical Review

Researchers suggest an investigational combination therapy could offer a new therapeutic option for Merkel cell carcinoma patients who may not respond to the current standard of care. Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare but aggressive form of skin cancer that has a high rate of metastasis and poor patient outcomes. The current standard of care for patients with recurrent, unresectable or metastatic disease is immune checkpoint inhibitor monotherapy targeting anti-programmed death receptor 1 (anti-PD

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management. Learn how Revvity Signals helps drug developers deliver clinical trial data insights in real-time using a fast and flexible data and analytics platform to empower data-driven decision-making.

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Hetero Labs Limited-Walk-In Interviews for Freshers in QC/ Production Dept. On 16th Sept’ 2022

Pharma Pathway

Hetero Labs Limited-Walk-In Interviews for Freshers in QC/ Production Dept. On 16th Sept’ 2022. Job Description. Hetero Labs Limited is one of India’s generic pharmaceutical companies and the “world’s largest producer of anti- retroviral drugs”. Hetero’s business includes APIs, generic, biosimilars, custom pharmaceutical services, and branded generics.

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Rubius’s red blood cell pivot leads to pink slips, focus on new cell therapy platform

MedCity News

Rubius Therapeutics laying off about 75% of its workforce in a restructuring that spells the end of its red blood cell therapies in early clinical development for cancer. The biotech is turning its focus to a new platform for making cell therapies that it says offers key advantages over its current technology.

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Rakshit Pharmaceuticals Ltd- Walk-In Interviews for Freshers & Experienced in R&D /TSD On 15th Sept’2022

Pharma Pathway

Rakshit Pharmaceuticals Ltd- Walk-In Interviews for Freshers & Experienced in R&D /TSD On 15th Sept’2022. Job Description. Rakshit Pharmaceuticals Ltd is an integrated API Manufacturing Company. Rakshit has emerged as a dependable and strong manufacturer of key APIs & intermediates for global markets. The Company is looking for result oriented and dynamic personnel for its Rakshit Group at Vizag.

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Agents of change: How the Gen Z medical science liaison will transform healthcare

MedCity News

Gen Z is the most diverse, digitally-proficient generation yet. Gen Z MSLs have the skills and power to change the future of healthcare by using technology to redefine who KOLs are, how they are engaged, and ultimately, how clinical trials are run – and with it the potential to make health equity a reality.

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Accelerating Clinical Supply Through Integrated Drug Development

As the development pipeline for new drugs continues to grow, biopharmaceutical companies are re-evaluating how to best manage and balance resources across an increasing number of development projects and complex clinical trials. There are two approaches that can be used to speed a drug from development to clinic faster: timeline compression and parallel processing, but only one that considers the benefits of integrating clinical supply into the overall drug development process.

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Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd.-Openings for R&D/ Quality Assurance -Apply Now

Pharma Pathway

Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd.-Openings for R&D/ Quality Assurance -Apply Now. Job Description. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. is an integrated global pharmaceutical company, committed to providing affordable and innovative medicines for healthier lives. Through its three business-Pharmaceutical Services and Active Ingredients, Global Generics and Proprietary Products.

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Verily raises $1bn to push ahead with precision health plans

pharmaphorum

It’s all change at Alphabet’s life sciences business Verily, with a $1 billion funding round and a shake-up of its senior leadership, including a new chief executive and executive chairman, who will have to decide how to spend the new money. Verily’s Andrew Conrad. Company founder Andy Conrad is stepping down as CEO and moving to the executive chairman position, while current president Stephen Gillett is being promoted to the CEO role two years after joining the company from Go

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3 Challenger Reframe Examples and How to Use Them in a Sales Call

Map My Customers

According to many sources, it’s getting harder for reps to close sales. Prospects are becoming increasingly likely to take issue with budget and create objections related to price. But experienced reps know that even the hardest objections in sales can be overcome. The 2011 book The Challenger Sale by Brent Adamson and Matthew Dixon suggested that the way to charge ahead is to take on the persona of a “challenger,” challenging both conventional sales approaches and your pros

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ONWARD reports positive results from a pivotal spinal cord injury study

PharmaTimes

Up-LIFT research achieves primary endpoint with improvement in arm and hand function

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Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics

Clinical development organizations face a wide array of challenges when it comes to data, many of which can impact the operational effectiveness of their clinical trials. In this whitepaper, experts from Revvity Signals explore how solutions like TIBCO® Spotfire® enable better, more streamlined studies. The whitepaper also features a success story from Ambrx, a leading biopharmaceutical company, detailing how it has leveraged Spotfire to tackle data quality and collaboration challenges in clinic

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ESMO 2022: neoadjuvant or adjuvant immunotherapy for locally advanced cancers?

Pharmaceutical Technology

The advent of immune checkpoint inhibition has arguably been the greatest breakthrough for the treatment of metastatic solid tumours, with durable complete responses observed across multiple cancer types. With success in the metastatic setting, pharma companies, researchers and physicians have invested heavily in exploring the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) for the treatment of locally advanced disease, hoping to increase response rates and prevent disease progression.

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Vital Pharma -Walk-In Drive for Production/ Quality Control/ Quality Assurance On 16th & 17th Sept’ 2022 @ Hyderabad

Pharma Pathway

Vital Pharma -Walk-In Drive for Production/ Quality Control/ Quality Assurance On 16th & 17th Sept’ 2022 @ Hyderabad. Job Description. Walk-In Drive for Freshers & Experienced in Production/ QC/ QA On 16th & 17th Sept’ 2022 @ Vital Therapeutics & Formulation Pvt. Ltd. Departments: Production/ QA/ QC. Qualification: M.Pharmacy/ M.Sc/ ITI/ Diploma/ B.Sc/ B.Pharmacy.

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WHO calls for greater investment into research for millions living with long COVID

PharmaTimes

Modelling indicates a 307% increase in cases identified between 2020 and 2021

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Driving Sales with Location-Based Ads

Scott’s Directories

Most businesses ensure that internet users can access their websites from around the world. For instance, a business person in China can access a small eCommerce site in Denver. Even if the website is an English-only site, it could become an international business by default. Therefore, many marketers take advantage of the location in their marketing and sales campaigns.

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The New Clinical Trial Supply Chain: Resilient, Flexible, and Patient-Centric

The global landscape of clinical trials is rapidly changing as studies become more complex. An increasing number of sponsors are seeking enhanced flexibility in their supply chains to address a variety of clinical supply challenges, including patient demand and reducing delays. Demand-led supply and direct-to-patient distribution are next-generation solutions that are helping to meet these growing needs, allowing for more streamlined processes and patient-centric studies.