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Advancing neurological therapies with Dr Bruce Leuchter

Drug Target Review

Historically, what has limited investor interest in funding neurological and psychiatric therapies in development? Investors have historically taken a ‘guilty until proven innocent’ approach to investing in neuroscience therapies. We were able to license a molecule from a multi-national pharmaceutical company.

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ViiV Healthcare Announces Analysis Showing no Antiretroviral Therapy Interruptions Due to COVID-19 Across its Clinical Development Programme for Investigational, Long-Acting Cabotegravir and Rilpivirine

The Pharma Data

21 October 2020 — ViiV Healthcare, the global specialist HIV company majority owned by GSK, with Pfizer Inc. and Shionogi Limited as shareholders, today announced the positive findings of a pooled analysis of COVID-19-related impacts across the investigational long-acting cabotegravir and rilpivirine clinical development programme.

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FSP Engagements Continue to Gain Popularity, Drive Success

PPD

The PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific conducts an annual survey of more than 150 leaders at pharmaceutical companies around the globe to assess trends in drug discovery and development, including preferences around outsourcing and functional service provider (FSP) utilization.

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The Power of Personalization Amid the Changing CRO Landscape

Conversations in Drug Development Trends

These survey results also highlight the importance of evaluating a variety of potential CRO partners of different sizes to choose the best match for your clinical development goals and corporate culture. We are acutely aware that turnover in key project team personnel can lengthen project timelines and inflate clinical trial costs.

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Europe: Where is the drug discovery innovation?

Drug Discovery World

In this article, DDW’s Diana Spencer highlights several prominent hotspots that are taking the lead on advancing European drug discovery and development. Europe is traditionally a life sciences powerhouse, with a strong tradition in pharmaceutical discovery. In 2022, the continent held a 22.4%

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Janssen submits EMA filing for bladder cancer treatment 

Drug Discovery World

Patients with mUC, including FGFR-driven tumours, face a particularly poor prognosis and the need for innovative therapies remains high. Europe has one of the highest rates of bladder cancer in the world 1 , with more than 203,000 patients diagnosed in 2020 alone 2.

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Gannex Appoints Former Takeda Head of Liver Disease Clinical Development Melissa Palmer, MD as Chief Medical Officer

The Pharma Data

(HKEX:1672) and fully dedicated to the R&D and commercialization of new drugs in the field of NASH, announced today that Melissa Palmer , MD, an internationally renowned Hepatologist, will join the Company as Chief Medical Officer, effective December 1, 2020. The clinical trial application of ASC09F has been approved.