Hiroaki Fukumoto,1* Hideki Takahashi,1* Naoki Tarui,1 Junji Matsui,1 Taisuke Tomita,2 Mitsuhiro Hirode,1 Masumi Sagayama,1 Ryouta Maeda,1 Makiko Kawamoto,1 Kazuko Hirai,1 Jun Terauchi,1 Yasufumi Sakura,1 Mitsuru Kakihana,1 Kaneyoshi Kato,1 Takeshi Iwatsubo,2,3 and Masaomi Miyamoto1 1Pharmaceutical Research Division, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Yodogawa-ku, Osaka 532-8686, Japan, and ...

João Carapinha (BPharm, MM P&DM) is the owner of PharmaLogica, a consulting company active in South Africa and the USA. Its aim is to respond with effective and innovative insight to the needs of the pharmaceutical sector in developing countries. PharmaLogica has worked for non-profit institutions, government agencies and also consulted on a project basis for pharmaceutical companies. This rese...

46 INTERNATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY Winter 2013 Volume 5 Issue 4 A future without antibiotics is deemed to be bleak, if bacteria continue to develop new resistance mechanisms and the pharmaceutical industry have to produce novel classes of antibiotics at the existing rate. Things may change, though. Recently, a UK-based company announced a major collaboration in the fight against resistanc...

I began to wonder about the larger question of whether there was any ethical obligation of these pharmaceutical companies to develop, produce or supply medicinal products to markets that either cannot afford them or that are too small to bring a return on the investment. After all, few would argue that a computer company has a moral obligation to develop a product for a small unprofitable marke...

Cocrystallizaiton could improve most physicochemical properties of specific active pharmaceutical ingredients, which has great potential in pharmaceutical development. In this study, the cocrystal of nitrofurantoin and 4-aminobenzoic acid was prepared with solid-state (solvent-free or green-chemistry) grinding approach, and the above cocrystal has been characterized by Raman and terahertz vibra...

Pharmaceutical funding plays an important role in medical progress. Thus, clinical and academic research has been significantly commercialized (1). There are data to suggest that economic interest from industry may have a negative influence on the objectivity of science, research publication, and even patient management (2,3). For example, a manufacturing company has been engaged “... in mislea...

Bristol-Myers Squibb is a diversified worldwide health and personal care company with principal businesses in pharmaceuticals, consumer medicines, nutritionals and medical devices. We are a leader in the research and development of innovative therapies for cardiovascular, metabolic and infectious diseases, neurological disorders, and oncology. In 2001 alone, Bristol-Myers Squibb dedicated $2.1 ...

The financial assessment of a company has been the topic debate among policy leaders as administrators, planners, economists and research workers for several years. It is method calculating effects monetary policies activities company. Financial performance review shall involve examination evaluation results in such manner to allow complete diagnostic viability soundness This study based upon 5...

Although an increasing number of literature indicate the positive impact of sponsoring major sports events or themed competitions, few studies have examined how a match-fixing scandal occurring in the most popular and national professional sports impacts the stock abnormal returns of the parent company and sponsor. Using event study method with content analysis, this study focused on the spillo...

In this paper we present several algorithmic techniques for inferring the structure of a company when only a limited amount of information is available. We consider problems with two types of inputs: the number of pairs of employees with a given property and restricted information about the hierarchical structure of the company. We provide dynamic programming and greedy algorithms for these pro...