Pharma R&D Today
Ideas and Insight supporting all stages of Drug Discovery & Development
Pharma Industry Conferences Have Gone Online – Will They Stay There?
Posted on December 3rd, 2020 by Xuanyan Xu in Pharma R&D
Back in 2014, writer Nick de Cent posed the question Is it time for the conference to go virtual? He interviewed digital healthcare consultant Len Starnes, who argued that bringing pharma and healthcare conferences online could be beneficial in many ways, most notably in expanding participation. Six years later, and COVID-19 forced the issue, prompting many conferences to go fully virtual.
(more…)Treating Pharma Data as an Asset: moving from an application centric to an information-centric organization – presented by Dr. Martin Romacker, Roche
Posted on July 14th, 2020 by Ani Marrs in Pharma R&D
Pharma knows there is a need for clean, reusable, FAIR data to fuel effective machine learning-driven R&D – but driving effective information and knowledge management is a long process, needing a step change where individuals learn their roles in data stewardship and reduce them to practice in a way that doesn’t constrain or impede their research activities.
(more…)A Systems Thinking Approach for Pharma
Posted on May 21st, 2020 by Paul Dockerty in Chemistry
Systems thinking asks scientists to look at the bigger picture and take a more holistic approach to their work. Systems thinkers consider how their field of study might relate to other disciplines, and how their research might inform or benefit from the broader knowledge stream.
(more…)Personal Health Train initiative gives researchers data access FAIRly
Posted on March 19th, 2020 by Mark Siebert in Pharma R&D
Health data is everywhere. It is managed by universities, research centers, medical institutions and by individuals themselves. With this valuable data located in so many disparate places, and organized differently in each place, it can be difficult for researchers to access and make use of it.
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