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Pharma 2016: Hot Topics, Burning Questions

The Digital Platforms That Will Stick Around

Presidential Candidates & Rx Policy

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Top Feature
Industry Troubled by Last Obama Budget
There was scant praise from the medical community for the eighth and final budget plan from the Obama administration, as the $4.1-trillion spending plan for fiscal year 2017 proposes only limited increases in funding for FDA and seeks to curb R&D incentives
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CHI’s 15th Annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo
April 5-7, 2016 – Boston, MA
Building a global network for precision medicine by uniting the Bio-IT community. Event includes 13 parallel conference tracks, 16 pre-conference workshops, 200+ presentations, 3,000+ global attendees, and an expansive exhibit/poster hall. For full details and to register, visit http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com.
 
R&D
Vaccines Prove Effective and Cost-Effective
Vaccine R&D has grown exponentially in recent years, spurred by ethical and medical needs to combat lethal infectious outbreaks and increased funding from public and private agencies and organizations, writes Jill Wechsler
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Industry Trends
Supply Chain Integration or Bust ... or Both
The recent formation of mega supply-chain purchasing groups such as CVS-Cardinal denotes a shift in the balance of power between wholesalers, chains, generic pharmaceutical companies and branded pharmaceutical companies, writes Michael Kleinrock
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Europe
Orphans in the Storm
As a European politician attacks abuses of the orphan drug scheme, a new EU report extols its virtues. Reflector asks: in Europe, does the right hand know what the left hand is doing?
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Europe
Stakeholders React to Plans for England's Cancer Drugs Fund
Leela Barham reviews the stakeholder responses to the recent consultation on the future of England’s Cancer Drug Fund (CDF)
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Calendar
/ February 23–24: Speaker Programs 2016 /
Philadelphia, PA.
/March 15–17: eyeforpharma 2016 /
Barcelona, Spain
/ April 18–19: IRT Europe — Interactive Response Technologies in Clinical Trials /
Brussels, Belgium
/ June 21–22: Patient Engagement Solutions Summit /
Philadelphia, PA.
/ August 15–17: 10th Annual Forum on Transparency and Aggregate Spend /
Washington, DC.
 
 
Industry update
//Amicus Therapeutics (Cranbury, NJ) recruited Ellen S. Rosenberg as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary and Kurt J.W. Andrews as Senior Vice President, Human Resources.//MRIGlobal (Kansas City, MO) announced that Steve Phillips joined the as Vice President of Sales and Marketing.//Carmell Therapeutics (Pittburgh, PA) announced the appointment of Randy Hubbell to President and Chief Executive Officer.//Vensun Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Yardley, PA) appointed Joan Janulis as Senior Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Compliance.
 
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