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Stefan Spazek

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Easing the Path to Profitability

Steps for startups in tapping non-dilutive financing options.


Emmanuel Aisabokhae, Ben Enejo, Thomas F. Unger

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Maximizing the Chance of Launch Success with Orphan Drugs

In preparing to launch a rare-disease medication, it is important to understand the needs in the therapy area and invest strategically to maximize the impact on the unique rare-disease environment.


William T. Sander

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Data As Currency: The Value of Longitudinal Data for Pharma

Longitudinal databases can have several advantages for pharma companies in comparison to collecting data from clinical trials alone.


Tim Willis and Oliver Wack

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Real-Time Information across the Pharma Supply Chain

Tim Willis and Oliver Wack outline the role of alternative data in supply chain risk management, and the ancillary benefits that come from adopting such technology.


Catherine Gambert

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Closing the Loop: Manufacturing & Regulatory Functions as Data Collaborators

Information gaps between manufacturing and regulatory, between ERP and RIM systems, are preventing all the practical and strategic benefits of data-based collaboration, writes Catherine Gambert.


Nir Kossovsky

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What the Purdue Pharma Case Teaches Us About Reputational Tornadoes

Purdue Pharma and its corporate leadership featured prominently in the media recently as litigation mounts over their sales and marketing of Oxycontin. Nir Kossovsky offers some observations about the lessons this situation provides for all corporate leaders responsible for their companies’ reputations.


Loetitia Jabri

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The Implications of Connected Medical Devices & Digital Healthcare

Loetitia Jabri considers the broader implications as healthcare providers embraces new digital connectivity options as part of the Medicine 2.0 era.



Nate Taninecz

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The Patient Comes First with Outcomes-Based Contracting

The benefits and challenges of outcomes-based contracting.


Michael Wong

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Making the Leap from Pharmaceuticals to Private Equity, Venture Capital

A Harvard Business School Healthcare Alumni Association Q&A with Jeremy Goldberg of Arsenal Capital Partners.



Amber Gilbert

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Are Pharma Marketers Fighting the Last War?

Despite being the fastest growing influencers in healthcare, ad campaigns targeted at payers are often an afterthought.


Bob Ward

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Cystic Fibrosis: The Importance of Patient Advocacy

The importance of patient advocacy in boosting research for cystic fibrosis.


Justin Grossman

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Three Tips to Managing Multiple Agency Partners

Outlining three practices that are key to navigating today’s multiplayer agency landscape - and getting more value from each external vendor.


John Elliott

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The Path to Patient-Focused Accountability

Benchmark survey assesses the industry’s progress so far in moving from words to action in its approach to patient centricity.


Susan Darrah-Reilly

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Patient Support Programs: Cost, Benefit, and Resourcing

Working group explores the challenges of patient support programs (PSPs) and market research programs (MRPs) for pharmacovigilance (PV) professionals-and solutions currently being put into practice.


Tyla Sosa Hager

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Patient Support Programs: Cost, Benefit, and Resourcing

Working group explores the challenges of patient support programs (PSPs) and market research programs (MRPs) for pharmacovigilance (PV) professionals-and solutions currently being put into practice.


Louise Jebson

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Patient Support Programs: Cost, Benefit, and Resourcing

Working group explores the challenges of patient support programs (PSPs) and market research programs (MRPs) for pharmacovigilance (PV) professionals-and solutions currently being put into practice.


Daniil Graborov

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FDA Modernizes Controlled Correspondence Interactions with Pharma Industry

As part of FDA’s ongoing effort to modernize interactions with industry, FDA launched a portal to help with submissions of controlled correspondence via email instead of manual data entry.


Saundra Middleton

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FDA Modernizes Controlled Correspondence Interactions with Pharma Industry

As part of FDA’s ongoing effort to modernize interactions with industry, FDA launched a portal to help with submissions of controlled correspondence via email instead of manual data entry.


Alexis Normand

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How Blockchain Can Support FDA’s Agenda

The digitization of healthcare is paving the way to accelerate drug development in the industry, and the FDA is doing its best to support industry.


Partha S. Anbil

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Pharma's Incentive Compensation Plan Landscape

As pharmaceutical companies become increasingly focused on retaining key sales people, they continually consider ways to leverage variable compensation as a strategic tool for maximizing the return on their investment in top talent.


Tom Norton

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“Drug Transparency”: Each Bill Needs Careful Evaluation

Could the new Vermont Drug Transparency law “lead the US Pharmaceutical industry to an awful end”? Tom Norton reports.


Michael Jewell

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M&A: Range of Fundamental Factors Will Drive Strong Deal Flow

The outlook for pharma M&A continues to be strong, writes Michael Jewell.


Paul Brooks

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RAPS Statement - BREXIT delay

Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society's Executive Director, Paul Brooks, discusses the looming uncertainty about what will happen after the UK leaves the European Union as many important details remain unclear.


Jean-Francois Denault

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Measuring Product-Market-Fit

Jean-Francois Denault outlines a systemic approach to evaluating the commercial viability of a product.


Christian Rack

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Work Planning and Approaches to Overcome Bottlenecks – an analytical department in drug development

Common strategies to overcome bottlenecks and how fast they might lead to results are discussed.



Sudip Parikh

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Primed for Progress: FDA’s Pre-Cert Program for Digital Health Devices

Executives from DIA, Ranjini Prithviraj and Sudip Parikh discuss documents the FDA released that further detail the agency’s implementation plan for its Software Precertification Pilot Program.


Ranjini Prithviraj

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Primed for Progress: FDA’s Pre-Cert Program for Digital Health Devices

Executives from DIA, Ranjini Prithviraj and Sudip Parikh discuss documents the FDA released that further detail the agency’s implementation plan for its Software Precertification Pilot Program.