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Improving Pharma R&D Efficiency
With development cycles becoming too long, trial complexity increasing, and greater scrutiny of the economic value of new treatments, pharma R&D business models are under significant pressures to improve R&D efficiency. In an ICON industry survey of pharmaceutical executives and professionals on Pharma R&D Efficiency, the challenges most frequently cited are explored. Learn more in this Applied Clinical Trials Industry Trends 2019 article.
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Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Trials
An Outsourcing-Pharma (OSP) article exploring Parkinson’s disease clinical trials, featuring commentary from ICON Central Nervous System (CNS) experts Dr Peter Schueler (Sr VP, Drug Development Services) and Haichen Yang (VP, Global Therapeutic Lead). For neurological research areas, digital endpoints may soon be used as primary endpoints, allowing for in-home trials to be conducted over longer periods of time.
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ICON Issues Financial Guidance for Full Year 2019
ICON announced its financial guidance for the year ended December 31, 2019, featuring commentary from Steve Cutler
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Centre of the pharmaverse
Patients’ role in their own health has evolved more in the past decade than in the previous six combined. Consequently, an all-encompassing digital era has opened unique opportunities for industry to engage with patients meaningfully, while also creating a modernised healthcare landscape which yields trust and cooperation. Read more in PharmaTimes' January 2019 article, Centre of the pharmaverse, featuring insights from ICON experts Kelly Franchetti and Caroline Forkin.
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How Value-Based Healthcare Affects Medical Device Development
Read this MPO Magazine article written by ICON expert Vicki Anastasi on how value-based healthcare (VBHC) models are expected to transform the health sector, impacting every aspect from patient care to drug pricing, and how partnering with a CRO can help manufacturers to demonstrate clinical efficacy and cost impact of new devices.
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Pharma R&D Business Models Under Pressure To Improve Efficiency
Read this World Pharmaceuticals article featuring ICON insights to explore the drug development cost pressures driving the search for savings, and discover why many pharma organisations that institute large-scale operational efficiencies need to integrate efforts if they are to be effective.
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Ten Developments to Watch Out For in Life Sciences
Read The Irish Times’ article featuring commentary from ICON’s Tom O’Leary on the top digital and technological developments in the life science industry, including mHealth, AI, robotic process automation, blockchain and virtual technologies.
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Optimizing Study Design in Real-World Evidence Generation
An Applied Clinical Trials article written by ICON’s Rob Sambrook exploring the importance of specialist epidemiology knowledge, due to their specialised focus on pharmacoepidemiological study design, to ensure robust and reliable downstream study findings.
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Connecting With The Patient
E.B. McLindon, Senior Vice President, Site and Patient Solutions, explains how ICON is taking a different approach with its Integrated Site Network and how getting more connected with the patient and easing the burden is really making a difference to enrollment rates in this Scrip 100 article.
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A Look at Cost Challenges of Precision Medicine & Rare Disease
Published by Pharmafocus, authored by Will Maier, Chief Scientific Officer, Head of Rare Disease Research, ICON Commercialization and Outcomes, this article explores the cost challenges presented by precision medicine in rare disease and the strategies that can be employed to overcome them.
