Sentences with phrase «for pharmaceutical firms»

The ability to unequivocally track and identify drugs would be useful for pharmaceutical firms, which spend millions of dollars per year for aggressive legal teams to find and prosecute counterfeiters.

He pointed to the sudden rise in share prices for pharmaceutical firms working on Ebola vaccines as one type of economic spur to ensure that medicines are there in an emergency, along with WHO's capacity to «prequalify» drugs as safe and effective so that they can be sold more cheaply and widely.

John Rountree, managing partner at Novasecta, discusses the fallout of a disappointing breast cancer drug trial for pharmaceutical firm Roche.

Designed costumes for theatrical productions and illustrated promotional literature for the pharmaceutical firm Casa Bayer.

Cheryl Eckerd, a quality - assurance manager for pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline, reported her employer's improper manufacturing of medicines and related safety issues.

Not exact matches

For the past five years, venture capital firms have pumped 25 percent to 100 percent more than they've raised into a diverse array of investments, including clean energy technology, health care, and pharmaceuticals.

One biotech firm, Ossianix, is already hard at work developing a VNAR - based drug - delivery system, in collaboration with the global pharmaceutical company Lundbeck, which focuses on drugs for brain disorders.

Other occupations are using A.I. in tandem with people: Lawyers use software that can analyze cases and search for relevant past rulings; pharmaceutical firms use algorithms to aid in drug discovery.

A drug delivery shortfall from pharmaceutical firm Sandoz Canada is expected to affect the drug supply (for anywhere from a few weeks to a couple of months) of many common injectable medications in hospitals across the country.

«That conservatism has been present through my entire career,» says McNally, now the president of Laval, Que., firm Équipement d'emballage MMC (a.k.a., MMC Packaging), which designs and builds automated machinery for companies that manufacture plastic caps and lids for anything from food products, to pharmaceuticals, to agricultural chemicals.

The company is currently working with a major pharmaceutical firm to print lung airways for use in testing medications to combat airway fibrosis, a condition that kills 100,000 Americans a year.

He's hired a crisis PR firm, and run into another pharmaceutical company that has decided to market a competing drug to Turing's pyrimethamine (known on the market as Daraprim) for $ 1 per dose.

Following stints at healthcare firms including Merck & Co., Dura Pharmaceuticals and Elan Pharmaceuticals, in 2007 she co-founded Slate Pharmaceuticals, which commercialized Testopel, the first FDA - approved long - acting testosterone product for men.

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

The algorithm, which is likely to be adopted by hospitals, insurers, and pharmaceutical firms, could become a go - to resource for reducing the likelihood of advanced renal disease.

Many pharmaceutical companies continue to work on treatments for neurological diseases, as do many smaller biotech firms and academic medical research centers, and funding sources for these pursuits include private foundations as well as governments.

There was also good news for the greater Leinster area as pharmaceutical outsourcing firm PCI Pharma has confirmed that it will bring on 120 new employees at its facilities in Drogheda, Co Louth, and Stamullen, Co Meath.

The project is to take place under the auspices of the Center for Supply Chain Studies, with the goal of bringing pharmaceutical firms into compliance with the Drug Supply Chain Security Act, passed in 2013.

Similarly, when Pershing Square Capital and Valeant Pharmaceuticals made a bid for Allergan last year, Valeant announced that, if successful, it would cut R&D at the combined firm by 69 %.

In the letter, the antitrust bureau chief for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asked Shkreli to contact the office «immediately» to respond to concerns that the company's sales practices were intended to deter generic pharmaceutical firms from creating alternatives to the drug.

Two private equity firms will pay $ 1.23 billion for Australian drug developer and marketer iNova Pharmaceuticals, in the latest sign that private equity buyers are cashed up and willing to write big cheques.

The continent's pension funds, meanwhile, face a tougher challenge paying for their members» retirement, as early September saw the world's first negative - yielding corporate bonds, issued by French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi and German cement maker Henkel.

In April, British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca agreed to buy US biotech firm Ardea Biosciences for $ 1.26 billion, at a 66 % premium to Ardea's trading price prior to the announcement.

Left is known for writing explosive reports into companies like the Canadian pharmaceutical firm Valeant, arguing that investors should short them.

His «real job» is as a company banker for an international pharmaceutical services firm.»

Carlyle bought prescription and over the counter drug maker iNova Pharmaceuticals for $ 930 million last June, in conjunction with Australian buyout firm Pacific Equity Partners.

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis announced the retirement of its top legal expert, as he apologised for payments made by the firm to Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen.

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis on Wednesday announced the retirement of its top legal expert, as he apologised for payments made by the firm to Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen.

Business Secretary Vince Cable has said the Government will show «even - handed neutrality» over Pfizer's bid for British - Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca.

Rep. Chris Collins dramatically increased his campaign fundraising in the first half of the year, and he took more money from health care and pharmaceutical companies than any other special interest at a time when he's under investigation for his ties to an Australian biotech firm.

Elizabeth Smith of the South Carolina - based Motley Rice law firm speaks about a lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies for their alleged role in the opioid epidemic.

Competing in that single market with the best companies in the world drives competitiveness and innovation for firms in all parts of our economy: from cars to computers, phones to pharmaceuticals.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Chris Collins dramatically increased his campaign fundraising in the first half of the year, and he took more money from health care and pharmaceutical companies than any other special interest at a time when he's under investigation for his ties to an Australian biotech firm.

«Big pharma has been fairly resilient, with pharmaceutical firms continuing to hire for drug development.

«The data from a publicly funded study may be good, but you don't have anyone out there pushing that study data, versus thousands of people doing it for the drug companies,» says Kevin Brode, a former vice president at marketRx, a firm that provides strategic marketing information to the pharmaceutical industry.

After leaving research behind, I became a science editor for a firm that produces training materials for pharmaceutical sales representatives, a job that prepared me for my current role as MiSciNet editor.

Giant pharmaceutical and smaller biotech firms are searching for epigenetic compounds to boost learning and memory.

For an entry - level Ph.D. scientist at a large pharmaceutical or corporate employer, an annual bonus might be in the 12 - 18 % range if the firm is doing well.

The frequency and growth of diabetes has not gone unnoticed by pharmaceutical companies — at least 20 firms are feverishly searching for remedies, and at least 40 new drugs are being tested.

Most large R&D - driven companies, including the big pharmaceutical firms, have offered this option for years.

The strategy was facilitated by the creation in the late 1990s of a drug procurement consortium dubbed the Green Light Committee, organized by the WHO, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, several NGOs and pharmaceutical firms like Eli Lilly that still manufactured the rarely - used antibiotics such as capreomycin and cycloserine needed to treat MDR - TB.

Great Britain, no slacker in the war on drugs, takes this approach: the government has authorized a pharmaceutical firm to grow different strains of marijuana for clinical trials.

One of the advantages of working for a large pharmaceutical firm is that my collaborators can be based all around the world and I've had the chance to visit a number of other Novartis sites to meet them.

Today, scientists targeting industry can choose from a variety of specialized training courses, which can make a big difference in their «marketability» for jobs at biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, and other firms offering scientific employment opportunities.

The vaccine technology clearly has a biological effect that prevents dengue,» says Derek Wallace, regional director of clinical development for Sanofi Pasteur, the French pharmaceutical firm developing the vaccine, who reported results online today at The Lancet.

These include government or private nonprofit funders of basic research, such as the National Institutes of Health in the United States or the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom; academic scientists; multinational pharmaceutical firms and smaller biotech companies; and, at the end of the line, government regulatory agencies responsible for drug approval.

The researchers are now in discussions with a pharmaceutical firm about screening for drugs that might target and shut off these fibrosis - causing stem cells in cases of chronic organ disease.

Unlike other Chinese contract research firms, PharmaBlock subscribes to multiple scientific journals that its staff scours for hints on pharmaceutical research trends, Dong says.

He has consulted for three major pharmaceutical companies and is currently on the scientific advisory boards of two small biotech firms.

Dr. Croft is the primary inventor on a number of patents directed at autoimmune / inflammatory disease therapy targeting the TNF family and he has consulted for many major pharmaceutical firms.