Myths about the Pharmaceutical Industry and Drug Development The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another…
Personnel Issues in Drug Discovery and Development Basic research is very competitive … The competition starts at the lab bench. Alfred W. Alberts, Merck & Company Inc. If you have…
Managing Research and Development and Avoiding Tangents There is, indeed, a specific fault in our system of science, and in the resultant understanding of the natural world … This fault…
Organizing Research and Development The success of a corporate R&D program becomes visible only in the light of its mission and purpose. If the choice is to adopt a generic,…
Interactions and Relationships with the Media The great advantage of a strong and clear signal from the top is that even quiet junior managers, when they are tuned into it,…
Patient Package Inserts The time is always right to do what is right. –Martin Luther King Jr. Printed information for patients about a drug that is included in a package…
Interactions with Patients and the Public The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of him who studies man…
Interactions and Relationships with Healthcare Professionals A bad doctor treats symptoms. A good doctor treats ailments. A rare doctor treats patients. –Sidney Harris But nothing is more estimable than a…
Interactions with Legislators and Government Agencies Lowering the time it takes for drugs to be approved for the market would probably go much farther in reducing drug prices than instituting…
Interactions with Trade Associations It is interesting to reflect on the defecatory habits of the hippopotamus. The male indicates to other hippopotami the extent of his own territory by defecating…
