July, 2021

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Crisis Communications and FDA

Eye on FDA

In the face of a crisis situation, it is a given that the clarity and thoroughness of the communications response is key to resolving the issue and mitigating any reputational damage. Perhaps no other decision by the Food and Drug Administration has garnered as much controversy, as the recent one to authorize the accelerated approval a new treatment for Alzheimer’s.

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Digital brain biomarker company Monument Therapeutics raises £2.6 million

Drug Discovery Today

Cambridge Cognition spin-out targets schizophrenia and post-operative cognitive dysfunction

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Which pharmaceutical companies have the most drug patents in Poland?

Drug Patent Watch

This chart shows the pharmaceutical companies with the most patents in Poland. Patents must be filed in each country (or, in some cases regional patent office) where patent protection is…. The post Which pharmaceutical companies have the most drug patents in Poland? appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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Expanding Healthcare Technology Across the Care Team to Improve Medication Access

Drug Channels

Today’s guest post comes from David Holladay, President of Access and Adherence at CoverMyMeds. David discusses how common medication access, adherence, and affordability barriers can lead patients to abandon important therapies. He suggests that technology can connect providers with actionable information at the point of care, thereby giving patients access to data that can lead them to make better decisions.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Gilead Sciences Announces Second Quarter 2021 Financial Results

The Pharma Data

econd Quarter 2021 Product Sales Increased 21% Year-Over-Year Primarily Driven by Veklury. Biktarvy Sales Increased 24% Year-Over-Year. Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) announced today its results of operations for the second quarter 2021. “We maintained our positive momentum in the second quarter, with both a solid financial performance and strong progress across our increasingly diverse portfolio.

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5 Ways Migraines May Be Affecting Your Kids

Olympian Clinical Research

If you suffer from chronic migraines and headaches, you know that the symptoms are no joke. While migraines are primarily known for affecting adults, about 30% of teens (and children) suffer from them as well. Migraines differ from headaches in that they are much more severe, and often accompanied by other symptoms such as nausea, head throbbing, light sensitivity, and more.

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The Current issue of “The view from here” is concerned with Cardiovascular Drugs

Drug Discovery Today

The topic of this month’s newsletter from Drug Discovery Today is “Cardiovascular Drugs”.

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Which pharmaceutical companies have the most ointment dosed drugs?

Drug Patent Watch

This chart shows the pharmaceutical companies with the most ointment dosed drugs. For a different perspective, see the most popular dosage types. The companies with the most ointment dosed drugs…. The post Which pharmaceutical companies have the most ointment dosed drugs? appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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Artificial Intelligence Accurately Predicts Protein Folding

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

Caption: Researchers used artificial intelligence to map hundreds of new protein structures, including this 3D view of human interleukin-12 (blue) bound to its receptor (purple). Credit: Ian Haydon, University of Washington Institute for Protein Design, Seattle Proteins are the workhorses of the cell. Mapping the precise shapes of the most important of these workhorses helps to unlock their life-supporting functions or, in the case of disease, potential for dysfunction.

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PFIZER REPORTS SECOND-QUARTER 2021 RESULTS

The Pharma Data

Second-Quarter 2021 Revenues of $19.0 Billion, Reflecting 86% Operational Growth; Excluding BNT162b2(1) , Revenues Grew 10% Operationally to $11.1 Billion The 10% Operational Growth Excluding BNT162b2(1) in Second-Quarter 2021 Builds on the 6% Operational Growth Delivered by the Comparable Business in Second-Quarter 2020 Second-Quarter 2021 Reported Diluted EPS(2) of $0.98, Adjusted Diluted EPS(3) of $1.07 Raises Full-Year 2021 Guidance(4) for Revenues to a Range of $78.0 to $80.0 Billion and Ad

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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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Viewing Clustered Chemical Structures in a Jupyter Notebook

Practical Cheminformatics

In Cheminformatics, we frequently run into cases where we want to look at leader/follower relationships between chemical structures. For instance, if we've clustered a set of molecules, we might want to start by looking at a table with one example structure for each cluster. We'd then like to be able to select one or more "interesting" clusters and drill down to the cluster members.

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OPDP Sends Untitled Letter

Eye on FDA

Upfront Author’s Note: This is the first posting in a while as I have been working to migrate the subscription service to a new provider. As such, some subscribers were lost in the process. Anyone who signed up for a subscription prior to 2019, would need to sign up again. Apologies for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience. Years ago, a single regulatory action letter issued by FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) would not have merited a blog posting in and o

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All eyes on Lab Innovations 2021

Drug Discovery Today

~ UK’s biggest trade show for the laboratory industry returns for 2021 ~

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New patent for Eisai Inc drug LENVIMA

Drug Patent Watch

Annual Drug Patent Expirations for LENVIMA Lenvima is a drug marketed by Eisai Inc and is included in one NDA. There are five patents protecting this drug and one Paragraph…. The post New patent for Eisai Inc drug LENVIMA appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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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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Drug Channels News Roundup, July 2021: Stingy Hospitals, Biosimilars & Part B, Hep C Drug Prices, Costco vs. Part D, and MBA Funny Business

Drug Channels

Let’s cut through the summer haze with our refreshing breeze of articles and insights. In this issue: The top 10 stingiest hospitals Medicare Part B's savings from biosimilars What happened to hepatitis C drug costs and rebates? Costco beats Medicare Part D Plus, math madness with Duke’s Fuqua business school. P.S. Please join the more than 12,000 consumers of my daily commentary and links to neat stuff at @DrugChannels on Twitter.

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Lilly and Kumquat Biosciences Announce Collaboration to Discover and Develop Novel Small Molecules that Stimulate Tumor-Specific Immune Responses

The Pharma Data

Loxo Oncology at Lilly, a research and development group of Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY), and Kumquat Biosciences today announced an exclusive collaboration focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of potential novel small molecules that stimulate tumor-specific immune responses. Through the multi-year collaboration, Kumquat will utilize its small molecule immuno-oncology (IO) platform to discover novel clinical candidates and Lilly has the option to select a certain numb

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New Drug Warnings Browser

The ChEMBL-og

As mentioned in the announcement post of ChEMBL 29 , a new Drug Warnings Browser has been created. This is an updated version of the entity browsers in ChEMBL ( Compounds , Targets , Activities , etc). It contains new features that will be tried out with the Drug Warnings and will be applied to the other entities gradually. The new features of the Drug Warnings Browser are described below.

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Why is the FDA Pre-submission tool underused?

Pharmaceutical Development Group

Introduction Food and Drug Administration is a government entity in the United States whose objective is to protect the public by verifying that nutritional supplements are safe to use and accurately labelled. Businesses can even use the FDA Pre-submission to get feedback on possible and planned medical advice, biologics and medication submission. It’s a fantastic service to use, but we have noticed that it’s often overlooked.

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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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Predicting Protein Structures with Deep Learning

Nvidia Developer: Drug Discovery

Solving a mystery that stumped scientists for decades, last November a group of computational biologists from Alphabet’s DeepMind used AI to predict a. Solving a mystery that stumped scientists for decades, last November a group of computational biologists from Alphabet’s DeepMind used AI to predict a protein’s structure from its amino acid sequence.

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New patent for Optinose Us drug XHANCE

Drug Patent Watch

Annual Drug Patent Expirations for XHANCE Xhance is a drug marketed by Optinose Us Inc and is included in one NDA. There are thirteen patents protecting this drug. XHANCE drug…. The post New patent for Optinose Us drug XHANCE appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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COVID-19 Emergency Use Authorisation Approval Process of US FDA

ProRelix Research

Emergency Use Authorisation Approval Process of US FDA and Treatments Approved for COVID – 19 in the USA The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the worldwide regulator performing on approval of […]. The post COVID-19 Emergency Use Authorisation Approval Process of US FDA appeared first on ProRelix Research.

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FDA broadens existing emergency use of Lilly and Incyte’s baricitinib in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 requiring oxygen

The Pharma Data

Baricitinib now authorized for emergency use as monotherapy. Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and Incyte (NASDAQ:INCY) announced today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has broadened the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for baricitinib to allow for treatment with or without remdesivir, whereas the EUA was previously restricted to use only in combination with remdesivir.

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ChEMBL 29 Released

The ChEMBL-og

We are pleased to announce the release of ChEMBL 29. This version of the database, prepared on 01/07/2021 contains: 2,703,543 compound records 2,105,464 compounds (of which 2,084,724 have mol files) 18,635,916 activities 1,383,553 assays 14,554 targets 81,544 documents Data can be downloaded from the ChEMBL FTP site: [link]. Please see ChEMBL_29 release notes for full details of all changes in this release: [link] New Deposited Datasets EUbOPEN Chemogenomic Library (src_id = 55, ChEMBL Document

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Want A Great Team? Pick Great Leaders.

Dark Matter Blog

Back in 2015, I felt compelled to set out in a new direction in drug discovery. I was in my third year as VP of Chemistry for Celgene. This was a great gig – good people, good science. However, it required a level of travel that began to seem excessive. My kids were old enough to know I was missing and young enough to care. And I live in the “Hollywood” of biotech, the Boston/Cambridge area – there seems to be an exciting new biotech start-up in this neighborhood every six weeks!

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The Power of Partnerships: Why Pharma Needs to Redefine its Role With IDNs

Drug Channels

Today’s guest post comes from MMIT's Dinesh Kabaleeswaran, Director of Advisory Services, and John Griggs, Senior Solution Consultant. Dinesh and John discuss the expanding role and importance of integrated delivery networks (IDNs) in specialty medication administration and reimbursement. Dinesh and John also highlight MMIT’s Pulse Analytics solution , which allows pharma manufacturers the ability to monitor drug coverage at the brand and IDN level.

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Most prolific drug patent challengers

Drug Patent Watch

This chart shows the generic pharmaceutical companies that had the most successful drug patent challenges from 2016 to 2021. Companies that successfully challenge patents on branded drugs are granted six…. The post Most prolific drug patent challengers appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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The first national clinical research priority setting study in the AoD sector in Australia

National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre Blog

Dr Krista Siefried, Clinical Research Lead and Deputy Director of the National Centre for Clinical Research on Emerging Drugs (NCCRED) The first national clinical research priority setting study in the AOD sector in Australia was conducted to determine the focus of clinical research, seed funding, and training programs for The National Centre for Clinical Research on Emerging Drugs (NCCRED).

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Donanemab data that demonstrated relationship between reduction of amyloid plaque and slowing of cognitive decline

The Pharma Data

P-tau217 in blood showed promise as additional biomarker of efficacy- Donanemab treatment led to 24% lowering of P-tau217 from baseline. Today at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference © (AAIC © 2021), Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) presented two new exploratory analyses of data from the Phase 2 TRAILBLAZER-ALZ study. In the first, greater amyloid plaque changes following donanemab treatment was highly associated with less cognitive decline and participants with greater pl

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Importance of FDA Combination Products

Pharmaceutical Development Group

Introduction FDA (can also be expanded as the Food and Drug Administration) is a bureau that administers the public’s welfare by controlling and surveillance of food products, medications, vaccines, medical devices, etc. There are certain rules and criteria for post marketing safety reporting of FDA combination products. What are combination products?

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To the Builders Blazing our Path to Amazing Medicines

Dark Matter Blog

Arrakis has gone through many significant transitions since its founding in 2015. We’ve evolved and matured scientifically. We’ve added investors and partners. And, of course, people come and go. Today, we reach a bittersweet transition at Arrakis. We bid our head of research and employee #005, Jim Barsoum, au revoir , as he marches bravely into a well-earned retirement.

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PBMs and Drug Spending in 2020: Data from CVS Health (sort of), Express Scripts, Navitus, and WellDyne (Plus: The Demise of PBM Reporting)

Drug Channels

Since 2012, Drug Channels has examined commercial drug spending using the annual trend reports published by the largest PBMs. This year, we review 2020 data on commercial plan sponsor clients of CVS Health and Express Scripts along with two smaller PBMs—Navitus and WellDyne. As you will see below, plan sponsors experienced another year of single-digit growth in overall pharmacy benefit drug spending.

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Which pharmaceutical companies have the most SPCs in Slovakia?

Drug Patent Watch

This chart shows the pharmaceutical companies with the most supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) in Slovakia. SPCs are used in European Union and select others to encourage pharmaceutical innovation by compensating…. The post Which pharmaceutical companies have the most SPCs in Slovakia? appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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Understanding The Signs & Symptoms Of Social Anxiety

Olympian Clinical Research

Social anxiety disorder, sometimes referred to as a social phobia, is a type of anxiety disorder characterized by extreme fear, distress, and anxiety in social settings. It’s important to note that being naturally more shy, reserved, or introverted is not the same thing as having social anxiety. While people with social anxiety may or may not exhibit shyness in social situations, it’s the uncontrollable fear, anxiety, and subsequent avoidance of social situations that differentiates someone with