All articles by Daniel Garrun

1. Obama’s $1 billion ‘moonshot’: is curing cancer realistic?

   In his final State of the Union address, President Obama announced the launch of a new national effort, to be…
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   3 May
2. A guide to starting up clinical trials

   Getting a clinical trial underway is no simple task. From patient recruitment to study completion, the drug maker must undertake…
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   17 Apr
3. Could farm dust be key to developing a vaccine against asthma?

   Could living on a farm protect a child from allergies, hayfever and asthma? On the surface, this sounds like a…
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   10 Mar
4. Different agendas: the GP–Pharma divide

   In theory, healthcare providers (HCPs) and the pharma industry ought to be on the same page. Both must operate within…
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   2 Mar
5. Safe, simple, secure: top trends in pharma packaging

   The pharmaceutical packaging market is growing fast. Climbing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 6.5% a year…
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   15 Oct
6. Fake medicines: are we on the verge of a pandemic?

   A global pandemic of poor quality medicines could undermine decades of efforts to combat diseases such as HIV, malaria and…
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   23 Sep
7. Good gut feeling: using bioengineered bacteria to treat disease

   Obesity can be an expensive and complicated problem to treat. Although lifestyle changes and medication may work on a short-term…
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   13 Jul
8. Leveraging big data to solve Pharma’s hard to cure problems

   The pharmaceutical industry is notoriously data-intensive, with a typical pharma company having reams of information at its disposal. Most obviously…
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   15 Jun
9. ResearchKit: unlocking patient data with Apple’s open source framework

   In March 2015, Apple announced the launch of ResearchKit, an open source software framework designed to help doctors and scientists…
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   27 May
10. ADDF 2015: overcoming the issues stalling new drugs for Neurodegenerative diseases

    At the 9th Annual Drug Discovery for Neurodegeneration Conference in March, the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) featured an exciting…
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    18 Mar