Tag Archives: Phase 1

Fifth China Medicinal Biotech Forum – Conference Recap

I recently returned from the Fifth China Medicinal Biotech Forum held in Beijing, China from 07-09 November 2011.  The purpose of this conference was to update graduate students in China on the latest trends in biotechnology.  This forum also allowed … Continue reading

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Free Webinar – Optimal Clinical Study Designs and International Regulatory Strategies

Please join us at a joint webinar between the Netherlands Centre for Human Drug Development (CHDR) and Cato Research that addresses current challenges and provides clinical and regulatory strategies to the most expeditious and cost-effective path towards clinical proof of concept and approval. The webinar will be held on Tuesday, 15 November 2011 from 1:00 to 2:00 PM ET. Continue reading

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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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Bridging the Valley of Death: Bringing New Drugs from the Bench to the Clinic

To bring a new medicine to the stage of clinical trial testing requires on the order of $500,000 to one million dollars and then seven to ten years of clinical trials and around $800 million dollars before getting to market.  … Continue reading

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Conference Recap – Biomarker World Congress 2011

  Everywhere in the news today, we hear that we are in the era of personalized medicine – where new medicines will be tailor-made for individual patients.  Specifically, personalized medicine is dedicated to the concept hat the right drug is … Continue reading

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