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| February 3,
2011 | ISSUE NUMBER 185 VOL 8 |
People
Pfizer CMO Named Woman of the Year
Freda Lewis-Hall, Pfizer’s Chief Medical Officer, has been named 2011 Woman of the Year by the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association.
Biotechnology
California Biotech: Good Governance Tops Wish List
New industry survey data documents a fraying investment base marked by a distant and unresponsive FDA as well as an unprepared workforce complacent about hungry foreign competition.
Regulatory
New Opportunity in the Absence of Avastin
In July 2010, FDA was urged to withdraw the use of Avastin in metastatic HER2-negative breast cancer. Since then, it has been dropped across all lines of therapy—but for other products in the breast cancer market, this does not necessarily open the door for new therapies.
Oncology
Fighting Cancer—A Checklist for Change
Payer and regulatory pressures are likely to take some steam off of heady projections of market growth in this sensitive therapeutic area.
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 // Amarin Corp. (Mystic, Conn., and Dublin, Ireland), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced that Paul E. Huff has joined the company as Chief Commercial Officer.
// Lannett Co. (Philadelphia), a specialty pharmaceutical company, announced the promotion of William F. Schreck to Chief Operating Officer.
// Qforma (Sante Fe, NM, and Princeton, NJ), a provider of advanced analytics and predictive modelling technologies, announced the appointments of Ted Pine and Devon Reimer as Vice Presidents of Business Development, and Michael Murphy as Software Engineer. //
Susan Schniepp, Vice President of Quality at OSO BioPharmaceuticals Manufacturing (Albuquerque, NM), has been elected to the Board of Directors at the Parenteral Drug Association (Bethesda, MD). |
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March 22-23: iPharma Connect—Digitally Connecting with Patients, Physicians, and Payers
Philadelphia, PA
April 8-10: Asian Oncology Summit 2011
Hong Kong
May 5: Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association Woman of the Year
Fairfield, NJ
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CBI’s 12th Annual Patient Assistance and Access Programs
Assess the Impact of Reform and Discover New Models for Ensuring Assistance, Advocacy, Continuity of Care and Access for Your Patients
March 1 – 2, 2011
Baltimore, MD
 www.cbinet.com/PAP
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CBI's 2nd Annual Risk Sharing and Innovative Contracting Models
Evaluate Outcomes-Based Agreements - Apply Value-Based Pricing - Achieve Preferred Status - Gain Competitive Advantage
March 24-25, 2011
Join all key stakeholders for a high-touch update on the future of contracting and hear measurable results about agreements that have actually been implemented in the United States. Learn how to best apply these contracts to optimize success.  www.cbinet.com/risksharing |
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