Activery The amorphization specialist
Activery believes that amorphous drugs provide new and innovative routes to final dosage forms with differentiated pharmacokinetics
| New R&D strategies and role of Spin-offs speed pharmaceutical product development |
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Recent business insight study and conclusions.Benefits of R&D restructuring. The redesign of pharma R&D models within large companies is creating an entrepreneurial environment that enhances the flow of information and facilitates faster decision-making during product development. Strategic networking is also helping companies to expand their portfolios and develop a new generation of progressive blockbusters. • New R&D approaches reduce consolidation. Innovative R&D strategies such as risk-sharing partnerships and strategic/tactical outsourcing are helping to combat the declining levels of productivity that are driving industrial consolidation. • Role of ‘R&D spin-offs’. R&D spin-offs enable pharma companies to streamline their portfolios and reduce overheads, whilst retaining the option to license back successful candidates at a future date. The speed of product development can also be significantly improved away from internal pharma processes. • Influence of emerging markets. Offshore R&D investments in emerging countires are becoming increasingly attractive following the lifting of WTO restrictions, tightened IP protections, infrastructure improvements and tax exemptions. India, China and Russia offer the most significant cost advatages. |
Pharma Notes
- New study on Inhaled Drug Delivery Market
- Particles that deliver larger and more effective doses of drugs to cancers
- The global protein therapeutics market will be worth $77bn by 2011 with biogenerics playing an increasingly important rol
- A federal jury in Texas Monday upheld the patent on Johnson & Johnson's arthritis treatment Remicade and ordered Abbott Laboratories to pay its rival $1.67 billion for infringing on the patent
- Transdermal delivery represents an attractive alternative to oral delivery of drugs and is poised to provide an alternative to hypodermic injection tool
Differentiated Generics
- Teva may lose patent challenge
- Labopharm receives notice of ANDA submission with paragraph IV certification for generic of Ryzolt
- Depomed (DEPO) Receives Paragraph IV Notice from Lupin Limited Over Patent Filing for Generic Glumetza Tablets
- The rate and number of successful Paragraph IV challenges is reducing the average effective patent life for innovator drugs
- Teva Sues Mylan Over Multiple Sclerosis Drug COPAXONE
Nanoparticles world
- Nanoparticle created to attack cardiovascular plaque
- Nanoparticle lung threat blocked
- Newly-developed nanoparticle to build therapies for treating individuals with cardiovascular disease.
- Nanoparticle Processing in the Solid State Dramatically Increases the Cell Membrane Permeation of a Cholesterol-Lowering Drug, Probucol
- Erectile dysfunction could be treated by a nanoparticle formulation applied directly to the penis