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But Don't Drug Companies Spend More on Marketing? 20 May 2013 | 04:50 pm
So drug companies may spend a lot on R&D, but they spend even more on marketing, right? I see the comments are already coming in to that effect on this morning's post on R&D expenditures as a percenta...
How Much Do Drug Companies Spend on R&D, Anyway? 20 May 2013 | 12:27 pm
How much does Big Pharma spend on R&D, compared to what it takes in? This topic came up during a discussion here last week, when a recent article at The Atlantic referred to these expenditures as "onl...
A Little Ranbaxy Example 17 May 2013 | 01:01 pm
Compare and contrast. Here we have Krishnan Ramalingam, from Ranbaxy's Corporate Communications department, in 2006 : Being a global pharmaceutical major, Ranbaxy took a deliberate decision to pool...
Ranbaxy: Looking Under the Rock 16 May 2013 | 06:37 pm
Here's an excellent, detailed look from Fortune at how things went off the rails at Ranbaxy and their generic atorvastatin (Lipitor). The company has been hit by a huge fine, and no wonder. This will ...
The Atlantic on Drug R&D 16 May 2013 | 12:55 pm
"Can you respond to this tripe?" asked one of the emails that sent along this article in The Atlantic . I responded that I was planning to, but that things were made more complicated by my being exten...
And The Award For Clinical Futility Goes To. . . 15 May 2013 | 07:51 pm
I was talking with someone the other day about the most difficult targets and therapeutic areas we knew, and that brought up the question: which of these has had the greatest number of clinical failur...
GSK's Published Kinase Inhibitor Set 15 May 2013 | 12:28 pm
Speaking about open-source drug discovery (such as it is) and sharing of data sets (such as they are), I really should mention a significant example in this area: the GSK Published Kinase Inhibitor Se...
A Specific Crowdfunding Example 14 May 2013 | 01:47 pm
I mentioned Microryza in that last post . Here's Prof. Michael Pirrung, at UC Riverside, with an appeal there to fund the resynthesis of a compound for NCI testing against renal cell carcinoma. It wil...
Crowdfunding Research 14 May 2013 | 01:09 pm
Crowdfunding academic research might be changing, from a near-stunt to an widely used method of filling gaps in a research group's money supply. At least, that's the impression this article at Nature ...
Astellas Closing the OSI and Perseid Sites? 13 May 2013 | 04:46 pm
I've heard this morning that Astellas is closing the OSI site in Farmingdale, NY, and the Perseid Therapeutics site in Redwood City, CA. More details as I hear them (and check the comments section; pe...
