As the world awaits the production and distribution of hundreds of millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines that have been granted emergency use authorization, biopharmaceutical companies and manufacturers are developing the next wave of vaccines and therapeutics to combat the pandemic.
Med Ad News talked to Bill Dreitlein – Senior Director, Pipeline & Drug Surveillance at OptumRx – about some of the most promising new molecular entities in the industry pipeline and challenges the FDA has faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Todd Wills, Managing Director, Consulting Services at CAS, talked to Med Ad News about what COVID-19 has taught us about pharmaceutical R&D; insights and predictions on future drug approval trends; and other topics.
The promise of personalized medicine, with its potential for treatments tailored to individual patients’ genomic footprints to generate better outcomes, has long tantalized the life sciences industry. Now, advanced imaging analytics and the extraction of high dimensional data from medical images, called radiomics, is emerging as the other side of the personalization coin.
Kevin Jacob, Head of Imaging at Illingworth Research Group (a SYNEOS HEALTH company), touches upon the myriad potential applications of medical photography and explore key considerations for use of these highly technical imaging techniques in clinical trials.
Perhaps the synergy of federal spending and pharma/biotech ingenuity we witnessed during Operation Warp Speed should continue beyond the COVID-19 pandemic to address other medical crises. Turning the race for a vaccine into something like the 1889 Oklahoma land rush was a masterstroke.
Fighting COVID-19 – both the pandemic and the recession it provoked – is President Biden’s top priority, and he is asking Congress to pass two huge economic packages. Few dispute that more relief and stimulus is needed. There’s a growing risk, however, that the new fiscal reality facing the federal government resurrects the idea of a pharma marketing tax.
Ogilvy Health’s Andrew Thorn, EVP, Head of Planning, looks toward what the post-pandemic world will look like.
Sapphire Biotech Chief Clinical Officer Douglas F. Lake, PhD, analyzes neutralizing antibodies in the framework of COVID-19 vaccines.
ExplORer Surgical CEO Jennifer Fried discusses the evolving need for AI and AR technology in the healthcare industry as a whole and the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on the medical device industry.