Evaluating and Interpreting Data
Evaluating and Interpreting Data Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. –Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American essayist and poet. From Society and Solitude (1870). He who…
Extrapolating Animal Safety and Efficacy Data to Humans
Extrapolating Animal Safety and Efficacy Data to Humans Some of the drugs popular in (country X) and not elsewhere fall into the category of good ideas that lack good data…
Biotechnology
Biotechnology It has now been more than fifteen years since Robert Swanson, a young man who understood both finance and science, invited Herbert Boyer, a shy molecular biologist at the…
Golden Rules of Drug Development
Golden Rules of Drug Development How to win people to your way of thinking: The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. Show respect…
The Drug Discovery Process
The Drug Discovery Process The discovery of adrenaline came about through a mistaken impression. A certain Dr. Oliver had developed a gadget which he thought measured the diameter of that…
The Drug Development Process
The Drug Development Process The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate…
Golden Rules of Drug Discovery
Golden Rules of Drug Discovery One must learn by doing the thing, for although you think you know it you may have no certainty until you try. –Sophocles The difficulty…
Overview of Factors Affecting Drug Discovery
Overview of Factors Affecting Drug Discovery Laws of Project Management Murphy’s Law: If anything can go wrong, it will. O’Toole’s Commentary on Murphy’s Law: Murphy was an optimist. Nonreciprocal Laws…
Pharma-think, Academic-think, and Government-think
Pharma-think, Academic-think, and Government-think Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. –Albert Szent-Gyorgyi One of the signs of an approaching…
Pharma Sense versus Common Sense
Pharma Sense versus Common Sense Common sense ain’t common. –Will Rogers Common sense suggests that, although these estimates {an observer trying to estimate the length of England’s coastline from a…
