Safety/Efficacy Featured Articles
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AMO Pharma Addresses Rare Childhood Disease
5/22/2017
“Rare diseases are bad enough, but the ones that affect children are even more heartbreaking,” says Mike Snape, CEO of AMO Pharma, a virtual biotech focused on rare disease. “The medical need in these areas is greater than ever. They also present challenges for drug developers, especially with clinical trials.”
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Clinical News Roundup: Senate Confirms Gottlieb As FDA Commissioner
5/19/2017
Clinical news roundup for the week of May 14, 2017 with information on a new head of the FDA, inVentiv Health and INC Research merging, helping patients navigate cancer clinical trials, new standards for trial results, and more.
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Samus Therapeutics Expands Clinical Development Program
5/18/2017
Samus Therapeutics is a privately-held, biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel therapeutics and diagnostics targeting the epichaperome, a foundational protein complex emergent from multiple disease states, including oncology and neurology. “We are the ‘anti-epichaperome company,’ says Jonathan Lewis, the company’s executive chairman and CEO. “Following various forms of cellular stress, chaperome units are rewired into the epichaperome network. Targeting and disrupting the epichaperome in cancer results in cell death and in neurologic diseases, neuronal survival, with no apparent effect on normal cells.”
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The Role of Biomarkers, Companion and Complementary Diagnostics
5/3/2017
The recent evolution of immunotherapies and their potential applications have greatly impacted patients’ options for effective oncology treatments.
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Can A New Outsourcing Approach Improve Clinical Trials?
4/25/2017
For companies wanting to outsource their trials but also harbor concerns over CRO size and staffing, is there a solution? One group thinks they have come up with the answer. Four companies have come together to form a consortium designed to provide pharma with a dedicated team of trial experts focused on making studies more efficient and cost effective. Current members of the alliance include FMD K&L, inSeption Group, Pyxa Solutions, and OneSource Regulatory, with a plan to add more members in the future.
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Survey: 50% Of Americans Not Aware Of Clinical Trials
4/20/2017
Patient recruitment remains a significant challenge for pharma companies conducting clinical trials. If all potential participants were aware of clinical trials, convincing patients to participate in them would still be a challenge. But that task becomes significantly more difficult when a large percentage of the population does not even know such trials exist.
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Breakthrough Therapy Designation Helps Genentech Navigate Difficult Trials
4/17/2017
FDA started the Breakthrough Therapy Designation program in 2012. Since then, Genentech has garnered 15 designations, more than any other company. Jeffrey Siegel has been an instrumental component of that success. Siegel is Genentech’s senior group medical director and spent 14 years with FDA prior to joining the company. He has spent most of his career in pharma developing products to address the unmet medical needs of patients.
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Clinical News Roundup: Why All The Love For Adaptive Trials?
4/13/2017
Clinical News Roundup for the week of April 10, 2017 with information on Scott Gottlieb and adaptive approaches, preparing for epidemic clinical trials, proposed tax law changes for clinical research, and using selfies to improve medicine adherence.
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Proposed Tax Change Would Impact Clinical Research
4/11/2017
Pharma companies that conduct clinical research inhouse essentially get a 100 percent tax break on the expenses incurred from that research (about 70 percent of which are normally wages). If they instead outsource that research to a CRO, they may claim only 65 percent of eligible expenses. The CRO gets no tax break, so that 35 percent difference simply disappears. If a group of congressmen get their way, that situation might soon change.
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Clinical News Roundup: RBM Leads To Cost Savings
4/7/2017
Clinical news roundup for the week of April 1, 2017 with information on RBM and cost savings, a culture change around clinical data, proposed clinical research tax credits, increasing patient diversity, the pharma industry in Mexico, and patient trust and satisfaction.