Let’s see the sequence of events and the players who would have to be all on the same page to hide a cure for cancer by a Big Pharma company. There’s this brilliant scientist,...
This type of questions get asked a lot, aren’t they? Here’s my answer which I’d posted on Quora. Yes. It is true. As a matter of fact, it has happened in the past and...
When you google “cost of developing a new drug”, you get over 197,000,000 results. Some of the top search results are from Scientific American, Forbes, JAMA, Policy& Medicine, Wikipedia,and New England Journal of Medicine,...
Jack Campion is Principal at the Hart Companies. He is the immediate past president of the ISPE Boston area chapter. Jack and the show host Samir have known and worked with each other...
(Dr. Monika Weber with an early prototype of her lab-on-a-chip) Dr. Monika Weber is the Founder and CEO of Fluid Screen, a startup in Boston, MA with a revolutionary chip-on-a-technology to detect and...
(Image Source: www.che.neu.edu) Professor Webster directs the Webster Nanomedicine Laboratory in Northeastern University, Boston which designs, synthesizes, and evaluates nanomaterials for various implant applications. To date, his lab group has generated over 9 textbooks,...
The word “myth” is defined in the dictionary as “a widely held but false belief or idea.” In other words it’s a lie that everybody treats as truth. The validity of the statement is...
“I’m telling you, the pharma companies make money by treating a disease, not curing.” How many times have we heard the above or some sort of variation of the above from family, friends, and...
I was recently at a dinner party. First of all, if you work for a pharma company, you don’t get invited to a lot of dinner parties. But when you do and meet someone...
Every year in August, Gallup does a poll asking the Americans about their opinions on various business sectors in the country. Not sure why August – maybe so that the adults can take care...