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Opinion: STAT+: A California court is setting a dangerous precedent over drug development (or lack thereof) liability

STAT

Recently, the First Appellate Division of California Appeals held that companies not only have to defend products they have developed and marketed, but also those they have not.

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Opinion: STAT+: 3 keys to successful biopharma-academia drug development collaborations

STAT

Academia can be an excellent source of novel drug targets and new technologies that can enhance medicinal discovery. Indeed, academic inventors or founders contributed to more than one-quarter of all medicines approved from 2001 through 2019. Yet many sponsored research collaborations that hope to tap into academia fail.

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Roivant joins RNA splicing push with Eisai deal

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Roivant is the latest pharma group to take a position in the emerging field of therapies targeted at RNA splicing, licensing exclusive rights to a drug developed by a unit of Japanese drugmaker Eisai. . In preclinical testing, H3b-8800 showed antitumour activity by modulating the disruption of mRNA splicing in cancer, it said.

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Nuclear Pharmacist by Day, DJ by Night

Pharmacy Is Right For Me

There are so many different types of careers within the field of pharmacy—from research and drug development to pharmacy informatics! I worked in Dallas from 95-2001, then moved to NYC, then years later went to the University of Colorado for the NTPD program and received the PharmD. What led you to this career path?

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2022 spells change for EU pharmaceutical legislation

European Pharmaceutical Review

But what are the key potential changes and how could they impact drug developers and manufacturers? He noted that within the proposals, there is likely to be a differentiation in incentives for drug development in the orphan and unmet medical need areas. Key areas of potential legislative change. Future outlook.

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Rare Disease Spotlight – tracing the rise of orphan drug designations over almost 40 years

Pharmaceutical Technology

Almost 40 years since it was instituted, some have described the FDA’s orphan drug program, which is meant to foster innovation, as “ one of the most successful US legislative actions in recent history ”. During 2001–10, the number of granted designations almost tripled, with 1,527 drugs receiving their first orphan drug designation.

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Understanding the evidence used in drug product withdrawals

European Pharmaceutical Review

Between 1999 and 2001, it supported 17 percent of withdrawals, between 2002 and 2011, it supported 26 percent of withdrawals and by 2012 to 2016, 80 percent of withdrawals were supported by observational studies (cohort, case-control, or other epidemiologic design). Meta-analyses contributed least frequently (31.4