Tag Archives: clinical development

Imaginary patients, Imaginary data, et Cetero, et Cetero…

The FDA recently issued a letter to a CRO based in Cary, NC, outlining serious violations at one of their facilities including “widespread falsification of dates and times in laboratory records… and the apparent manipulation of equilibration samples to meet … Continue reading

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Conference Recap – BayBio 2011

The BayBio Annual Conference 2011 was held on 20-21 April 2011 in Burlingame, CA.  The event was attended by more than 1,000 San Francisco Bay Area biotech and life sciences professionals from over 400 companies. This year’s conference focused on … Continue reading

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DIA 2010 – Week in Review

The DIA 2010 Annual Meeting was a great success and Washington, DC was a great location.  In addition to the thousands of industry attendees, the location made it possible for this year’s meeting to include FDA representatives from all areas … Continue reading

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Approval of Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines

Last month, Dendreon was granted approval for Provenge®, the first cell based cancer vaccine for treatment of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic metastatic castrate resistant (hormone refractory) prostate cancer.  Provenge is the first cancer treatment that utilizes the strength of the … Continue reading

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