Clinical research is essential in contemporary medicine. It is a source of knowledge to improve healthcare, as it which is based on evidence. It helps to evaluate new drugs and , therapies. It is a a necessary step to test new assets but also to develop and gather advice from the best key opinion leaders.
Across all industries 9 out of 10 start-ups will fail. This staggering statistic doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. In healthcare the failure-rate may not be as detrimental but remains cause for concern. Which begs the question: why do so many start-ups fail?
HiTT celebrates that Barcelona Activa recognizes Qbeast with an award for the best project of high technological impact and Hospital Vall d’Hebron obtains more than 1M€ benefit from the exploitation of a patent license.
Oriol Sola Morales has collaborated in the creation of an article about reimbursement decisions on new oncology drugs. You can access to the entire article in this link.
Health Innovation Technology Transfer (HITT) is working on the development of an European project in Big Data tools. This project tries to understand the needs of the professionals that use Big Data tools in its analytical procedures.
Today we learn that Amgen is lowering the acquisition cost of Repatha by 60% in the US.
On April 10th 2018, Goldman Sachs published “The Genome Revolution” report on gene therapy, in which its analyst posed the thought-provoking question: “is curing patients a sustainable business model?”
This week we learned that Merck & Co. was ending the Phase III APECS study of Verubecestat (formerly known as MK-8931) for the treatment of prodromal Alzheimer Disease. Yet another drug in AD graveyard!!