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Anti-cancer collaboration

|Academic and industry collaborations could be the answer to conducting cost-effective and flexible trials, which are able to assess rare diseases.|MD Anderson, which is located in Houston, entered into a groundbreaking partnership with BMS to change the face of cancer research.

Check the small print: smart-labelling

|Unlike today’s labels, which are churned out by machines, pre-industrial medical packaging tended to be printed from woodcuts, on homemade paper.|Labels would have been stuck on by the doctors themselves, and were not guaranteed to be informative, accurate or even legible.

Sourcing on a global scale

|Local sourcing experts can meet with manufacturers to make demand planning much easier. Sourcing directly from producers also enables pharmaceutical companies to gain access to comparators with a long shelf life and specific batch numbers.

Getting the writing right: importance of medical writing

|Gerry McGregor received his PhD in human physiology in 1984, and then worked in academic medical research. By 2000, he had moved to the pharma sector, joining Pascoe pharmaceuticals, where he began medical regulatory writing. Since June 2017, he has been a principal medical writer at Trilogy Writing & Consulting.

Focusing on the future

|Visitors to Vitafoods Europe can experience products and services first hand at the event.

Seed It and reap

|Hemp is used in as many as 25,000 products; its bres can be used to make rope, paper and textiles, the seeds can be eaten and the oil can be used as a lubricant, among other things.|Hemp’s non-GM status, and freedom from allergens, gluten, lactose, soy and phytoestrogen are great selling points.