September 2009

This week’s contribution to ’52 Perspectives’ comes from Debbi Lindgren-Clendenen, APRN-BC, GNP and Vicki Carmack, both Principal Consultants at NaviGo Research, a full service contract research organization providing clinical trial guidance and resources to the Medical Device, Pharmaceutical and Biotech industries. 1.  What are some steps your company takes to make the recruitment process go [...]

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This week’s submission to ’52 Perspectives’ comes to us from Michael J.S. Thompson, Director of Business Development at Celltrion USA Inc., one of the world’s leading biologics contract manufacturing organizations for supply of clinical and commercial material 1.    What are the ranges of development and manufacturing services Celltrion, Inc. offers the pharma/biopharma industry? Headquartered in [...]

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I was planning to attend the Contract Pharma conference in New Brunswick, NJ to catch up with old friends and colleagues.  However, it appears this won’t happen. In the past hour, I was informed by their editor that my pass was going to be denied. Why? It appears they believe our businesses overlap too much [...]

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I attended the ChinaBio Conference in San Francisco.  ChinaBio is an organization that connects the Chinese Life Sciences industry with the rest of the world through partnering conferences along with a range of consulting services.  This was the first time the conference was in the US and I found it to be a great opportunity [...]

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Our friends at Pharma-marketer.com have graciously provided me with a forum to address questions from the global pharmaceutical community.  If you get a moment, check out their site. They provide interesting perspectives on issues pertaining to marketing for the life-sciences.

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This week’s submission of “52 Perspectives” comes to us from Britton Jimenez, the Vice President of Business Development at Penn Pharma, a leading provider of fully integrated and cost effective pharmaceutical development and custom manufacturing services to the international healthcare industry. 1.  What are the ranges of development and manufacturing services Penn Pharma offers the [...]

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Article authored by David Levin, Vice President at Clinipace. Strategic relationships with CROs have typically been the exclusive domain of large biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms with multi-millions to spend on clinical trials. But, as the face of the biopharma world is being altered by smaller firms, these strategic relationships have taken a new form. Now, [...]

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At goBalto, our mission is to accelerate drug development timelines to get medicines to those in need faster. We do this by providing solutions, which make it easy for professionals to collaborate with colleagues and teams from all over the world. (You can view a short demo by clicking here).  A key bottleneck users encounter in [...]

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New goBalto “demo”

by Jae Chung

Here’s the demo we will be showcasing at the LifeScienceFest.  Provides a short (but sweet) two and a half minute video of some of the key features on goBalto as well as a sneak-peak at our upcoming web-based project management solution. Voiceover courtesy of Erik Sam.

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With the pharma & biotech job market still in turmoil, we invited Jeff Schwartzman (a Partner at Laguna Source) to share his thoughts on the current state of affairs in the job search and shares his insights on where he things are at, and more importantly his advice on what candidates can do to land a job. 1) [...]

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