March, 2022

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As biotech retreats, gene therapy companies retrench and redraw plans

Bio Pharma Dive

At least nine biotechs working in cell or gene therapy have announced layoffs, cost cuts or restructured their research since December — restructurings that have coincided with a stock market downturn.

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The biggest challenge for healthcare

World of DTC Marketing

American healthcare is the most expensive globally, but it’s not close to being the best. Our healthcare system has become like a mass-market retailer, in the door to treat the problem and out the door with an Rx or other treatment recommendation. What’s missing is the basic premise of any good care: the focus on the person, not just the condition.

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Omicron BA.2 variant triggers COVID-19 surge in England

Pharma Times

The sub-variant combines mutations from both Omicron and Delta

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The Digital Health Start-up Journey: Series A to scale-up

pharmaphorum

Although resources exist for digital health entrepreneurs looking to raise their first key investment round, industry advice on next steps is harder to find. The growth of a start-up after obtaining Series A funding is a transformational phase when scaling up the company becomes critical. The CEO can experience pressure to deliver on the revenue growth goals, whilst still developing their product, growing the team, and implementing core processes for the company.

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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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Moderna takes HIV trimer mRNA vaccine into clinical trials

BioPharma Reporter

The first participant has been dosed in a Phase 1 clinical trial of HIV trimer mRNA vaccine candidate mRNA-1574.

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Artificial intelligence paves the way to discovering new rare-earth compounds

Scienmag

Artificial intelligence advances how scientists explore materials. Researchers from Ames Laboratory and Texas A&M University trained a machine-learning (ML) model to assess the stability of rare-earth compounds. This work was supported by Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program (LDRD) program at Ames Laboratory. The framework they developed builds on current state-of-the-art methods for experimenting with […].

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The need for mental healthcare is great

World of DTC Marketing

Mental illnesses are common in the United States. Nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness (52.9 million in 2020). Mental illnesses include many different conditions that vary in severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe. Suicidal ideation continues to increase among adults in the U.S. 4.58% of adults report having serious thoughts of suicide, an increase of 664,000 people from last year’s dataset.

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UK’s first digital health training programme for all NHS frontline staff

Pharma Times

The platform to build a digital-ready frontline workforce will be available to all NHS and social care staff

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Will people be left behind by the digital health revolution?

pharmaphorum

The uptake of digital health tools during the pandemic has been enormous due to improved access they provide to healthcare. In this article, Ben Hargreaves asks whether there are gaps in those utilising these solutions and what action is being taken to address this. Digital health has a tremendous capacity to transform the healthcare industry, with the ability to provide easy access to a multitude of services and new types of therapies.

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Benefits of Adopting Multichannel Marketing in Pharma

Pharma Mirror

It all started in March 2020 and it is now Jan 2022. We still can’t declare the COVID pandemic as “finished”. How has the pandemic impacted the field marketing activity of Pharma companies? What should the industry do to prepare for what will definitely be a new world, post-COVID? There were many analysts who, even before the pandemic, were saying that the role of Medical Representatives will reduce.

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Optimizing Clinical Supply Strategy: Navigating Challenges & Finding Your Ideal Model

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Join the annual conference 2022

Deltaclinical

Don’t miss us at the Annual Conference by Healixia on March 24th! A great opportunity to network with likeminded in the field of patient centric solutions for healthcare. ???? ???? Our managing director Geert Briers will be hosting a break-out session about Home Therapy. ???? Afterward Geert will be able to answer any additional questions regarding his vast experience in the field of clinical home studies.

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AbbVie holds off another Humira challenger with Alvotech deal

Bio Pharma Dive

A settlement will allow the Iceland-based drugmaker to launch its Humira copycat, currently under FDA review, in the U.S. beginning next July.

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Now alcohol is a direct cause of cancer

World of DTC Marketing

Oxford researchers say they have confirmed that alcohol is a direct cause of cancer, emphasizing how their findings reinforce the need to lower levels of alcohol consumption in the population for cancer prevention. The question is will the healthcare community do anything about these findings? Worldwide, alcohol is responsible for an estimated 3 million deaths each year, with over 400,000 from cancer.

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NHS mental health referrals has reached record high

Pharma Times

COVID-19 has highlighted another significant widespread problem – the mental health pandemic

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The New Age of Decentralized Clinical Trials

White paper that delves into the complex topic of Decentralized Clinical Trials and how to master them within the confines of FDA Regulations

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AZ, Merck get FDA okay for Lynparza as adjuvant breast cancer therapy

pharmaphorum

The FDA has cleared AstraZeneca and Merck & Co’s Lynparza as an adjuvant or neoadjuvant treatment for breast cancer, extending its lead over pretenders to its PARP inhibitor crown. The new approval is for use in patients with BRCA-mutated, HER2-negative early-stage breast cancer who have already been treated with chemotherapy – either before or after surgery – and are at high risk of the disease coming back.

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Pipelinepharma marketplace records quadruple growth over a single year

Pharma Mirror

The leading European pharmaceutical marketplace now hosts more than 85 000 CTD dossiers for finished dosage formulation products. Compared to 19 600 products at the start of 2021, the product offering has increased fourfold over a single year. As a response to increasing demand, Pipelinepharma will introduce biosimilar drugs into a separate category.

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Join the annual conference 2022

Deltaclinical

Don’t miss us at the Annual Conference by Healixia on March 24th! A great opportunity to network with likeminded in the field of patient centric solutions for healthcare. ?. ? Our managing director Geert Briers will be hosting a break-out session about Home Therapy. ? Afterward Geert will be able to answer any additional questions regarding his vast experience in the field of clinical home studies.

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FDA sets out advice to developers of gene editing medicines

Bio Pharma Dive

Draft recommendations from the agency were generally straightforward, analysts said, although the document emphasized the potential safety risks of gene editing.

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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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We need evidence-based digital health

World of DTC Marketing

Digital health companies aim to address the numerous health care challenges, including poor patient engagement, communication gaps between patients and providers, lack of longitudinal data, inconvenience of care delivery, and insufficient clinical decision support for providers and patients. Maybe, however, they should check with patients first. A 2016 study reported that 259,000 digital health apps were available for consumers.

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Doctors and nurses produce roadmap to future-proof healthcare

Pharma Times

Report uses input from healthcare professionals to highlight training and support needs, while also warning about departures

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Boehringer backs AI-powered anti-infective startup ArrePath

pharmaphorum

A new company set up to use machine learning to find new anti-infective drugs – ArrePath – has launched onto the scene with $20 million in seed financing from a group of investors including the Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund. The Princeton, New Jersey-based startup will use the funding to develop its artificial intelligence and imaging based drug discovery platform, used to identify compounds with new and under-exploited mechanisms of action.

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Symbiosis announces successful completion of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) project, which will enhance the manufacturing supply chain for ATMPs within the UK

Pharma Mirror

Symbiosis Pharmaceutical Services Ltd (Symbiosis), a fast-growing contract manufacturing organisation (CMO) specialising in sterile global manufacture of pharmaceuticals, vaccines and biopharmaceuticals including Advanced Therapeutical Medicinal Products (ATMPs), has announced the completion of a £1.3 million collaborative UKRI-funded project as part of the medicines manufacturing challenge.

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What the FDA's New Dosage Guidance Means for the Future of Clinical Research

Speaker: Dr. Ben Locwin - Biopharmaceutical Executive & Healthcare Futurist

What will the future hold for clinical research? A recent draft from the FDA provides valuable insight. In "Optimizing the Dosage of Human Prescription Drugs and Biological Products for the Treatment of Oncologic Diseases," the FDA notes that "targeted therapies demonstrate different dose-response relationships compared to cytotoxic chemotherapy, such that doses below the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) may have similar efficacy to the MTD but with fewer toxicities.

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Join the annual conference 2022

Deltaclinical

Don’t miss us at the Annual Conference by Healixia on March 24th! A great opportunity to network with likeminded in the field of patient centric solutions for healthcare. Our managing director Geert Briers will be hosting a break-out session about Home Therapy. Afterward Geert will be able to answer any additional questions regarding his vast experience in the field of clinical home studies.

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GSK partners with LifeMine as startups advance plans to make drugs from fungi

Bio Pharma Dive

The deal, announced alongside a $175 million round, makes biotech entrepreneur Greg Verdine's startup the most well-funded among an emerging group of companies searching for drugs in fungal DNA.

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Biden proposes subsidizing drug middlemen for insulin

World of DTC Marketing

The House is preparing to vote on a $35 monthly insulin cap later, but there is stern opposition to the plan, which could cost billions over ten years. Essentially taxpayers would be subsidizing drug company profits for the price of a product that should have come down a long time ago. Under the bill proposed, Medicare beneficiaries and those insured through private plans would pay no more than $35 for a 30-day insulin prescription, or the lesser of $35 or 25% of the plan’s negotiated pric

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NHS fast-tracks new targeted drug for rare lung cancer

Pharma Times

Patients eligible to receive Takeda’s Exkivity (mobocertinib) have a rare form of lung cancer that cannot be removed by surgery

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2022 Research: The Rapid Rise of Ocean Freight Visibility

A research study conducted by The Journal of Commerce and FourKites surveyed hundreds of international shippers, exploring how their usage of global supply chain visibility technology has evolved since the onset of global disruptions caused by COVID-19. For international shippers, ocean freight visibility has evolved from optional to essential and satisfaction with visibility varies greatly depending on how it is obtained and delivered.

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Virtual and augmented reality: Bringing the future to pharma manufacturing

pharmaphorum

Virtual and augmented reality tools have reached a level of maturity to be utilised across various industries. In this article, Ben Hargreaves asks whether there is particular potential for the technologies to revolutionise staff training and reduce costs in pharma manufacturing. Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have spent a lot of time in the headlines recently.

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New liquid filling machine for sterile ophthalmic products – Oftalmica by Romaco Macofar

Pharma Mirror

Karlsruhe/Germany, Romaco Macofar’s Oftalmica was specially developed for aseptic filling of sterile eye drops, nasal sprays and injectables. Meeting all GMP requirements for safe processing of highly viscous, oily and foaming liquids, the machine additionally offers fast format changes and short cleaning times. The Oftalmica is Romaco Macofar’s latest technology for aseptic filling of sterile eye drops.

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Enveric taps University of Calgary to study psychedelic therapy in cancer-related distress

Outsourcing Pharma

The pharma company and academic institution will explore the viability of a psychedelic treatment to help patients suffering from cancer-related distress.

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Passage Bio to cut jobs in latest biotech restructuring

Bio Pharma Dive

Stung by a stock market downturn, a number of biotechs are trimming spending and reprioritizing research to save cash. Passage's layoffs will reduce its workforce by 13%.

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An Innovative & Creative Problem Solver Approach to Selling in the Medical Device Space

Speaker: Steve Goldstein, Sales Leader

Are you currently in sales, or involved in a business that depends on strong sales results? What about the extremely competitive world of medical device sales? What are some of the top challenges your customers face and how do you approach understanding what’s most important to them? Join Steve Goldstein, Sales Success Coach, Motivational Speaker and Medical Device Sales Leader from Gold Selling LLC., to discover critical strategies and approaches you can take to engage your customers, achieve g