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GLG Topic: Pharmaceutical Industry

The Pharmaceutical Industry is the business sector typically encompassing the production and use of small molecule drugs derived from chemical sources. These substances are aimed at treating, curing, preventing, or recognizing disease.

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Leading Experts: Pharmaceutical Industry

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Mark Capriani, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer
AciesHealth

Mark Capriani, MBA, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of AciesHealth, a specialty pharmaceutical company in Pennsylvania. He has over 15 years of experience in pharmaceutical industry including biotech, branded and multi source pharmaceuticals, consumer products, device, and wound and burn...

Nailesh Bhatt, Managing Director, Proximare, Inc.Nailesh Bhatt
Managing Director
Proximare, Inc.

Nailesh Bhatt is the Managing Director of Proximare, Inc., a leading strategy consulting firm that exclusively serves the pharmaceutical industry with offices in New Jersey and India. In this role, Mr. Bhatt works with senior pharmaceutical executives to develop and implement growth strategies for R&D,...

Kuldeepak Sharma, PhD
President/Pharmaceutical Consultant
Dr. Kuldeepak Sharma

Kuldeepak Sharma, PhD, is a pharmaceutical consultant with twenty years of experience in research, clinical trials, business, patent and product development including: new process & technology development; clinical, project leadership; project planning; project management; patent research; managing...

Thomas Saunders, Partner, SEYFARTH SHAW LLPThomas Saunders
Partner
SEYFARTH SHAW LLP

Thomas Saunders is a Partner at Seyfarth Shaw in Boston, Massachusetts, where he specializes in representing emerging medical technology, biotechnology/genetic engineering and pharmaceutical concerns, particularly as to patent prosecution, patent strategy, IP licensing matters and ANDA Paragraph IV...

Joseph Franciosa, MD, Owner, Joseph A. Franciosa, MD, ConsultantJoseph Franciosa, MD
Owner
Joseph A. Franciosa, MD, Consultant

Joseph Franciosa, MD, is an Independent Consultant to the pharmaceutical and medical devices industry and is also an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York. He has pioneered in new treatments for heart failure and helped...

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GLG NewsSM Analysis: Pharmaceutical Industry(?)

Opinions and analyses expressed in GLG News are solely those of the author. See the Terms of Use for details.
Price Controls are Not the Solution to the Annual Increases in Pharmaceutical Costs | 03-31-2008
Author: Frederic Goldstein, President, SPECIALTY DISEASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES

While pharmaceutical companies raised prices at a higher level than general inflation, implementing price controls is not the appropriate means to control drug spend.  More effort needs to be placed on clinical trials and the demonstration of efficacy and value prior to a products release. ...

NY Times Editorial Misunderstands, Misrepresents Pharmaceutical Development | 04-16-2008
Analysis of: When Drug Costs Soar Beyond Reach | www.nytimes.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

The cost of certain drugs is high -- but so are the regulatory costs and the financial risks of drug development.  The process is overseen by the FDA, whose increasing risk-aversion continues to make drug development more expensive and uncertain.

Are physicians who represent plaintiffs any less biased than researchers working with a pharmaceutical company | 04-21-2008
Analysis of: Reports: Data on Vioxx was misused | www.usatoday.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

The authors of this study obtained the data while representing plaintiffs and their lawyers.Surely they come from a biased viewpoint and perhaps more biased than groups of researchers who have performed a study may not have written all of a final manuscript but had the chance to review it.      ...

Adulterated Chinese Heparin, It Happens. | 03-26-2008
Analysis of: Heparin Find May Point to Chinese Counterfeiting | www.nytimes.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

The FDA at the end of it's investigation finds a firm in compliance or the firm gets a form 483, the pharmaceutical version of a speeding ticket.

Big Pharma R&D shrinks as small Pharma and Biotechs Rise to Fill the Gap in R&D | 04-14-2008
Analysis of: Where The Jobs Aren’t: Research & Development | www.pharmalot.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

1. PHRMA's R&D budget may have grown by a smaller percentage and positions have been cut due to mergers and acquisitions. 2. Biotech and non-PHRMA pharmaceutical company growth with increasing headcount , growing budgets and improved cost efficiencies may account for a portion of these...

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