Showing posts with label FierceBiotech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FierceBiotech. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Europe's Top 5 Biotech Hotspots

Fierce Biotech has compiled their list of the top 5 biotech hotspots in Europe.

They are as follows,

• United Kingdom

• Norway

• Sweden

• Germany

• Czech Republic

From Fierce Biotech:

This year, for the first time, FierceBiotech looked into the development scene solely in Europe to see which countries have hatched the best programs to support drug discovery and innovation. That doesn't mean simply listing the largest clusters. Switzerland has had one of the best track records in Europe for developing a homegrown drug development industry, but it's done it all with private capital and virtually no public support. Eastern European countries which have been late to the biotech party have the furthest to go to catch up. But in places like the Czech Republic and Hungary they're pushing ahead quickly, anxious to leapfrog into the global mainstream. All of these project initiatives bear close observation in the U.S., where public support for biotech has been a prominent feature in a slate of key states.

For more information about the countries chosen by Fierce Biotech, please visit the article.


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Monday, February 23, 2009

Raising alarms, study sees trials migrating abroad

John Carroll at FierceBiotech.com reports that the U.S. drug industry has shifted most of its clinical trials to overseas sites in a trend that experts warn raises serious ethical concerns. According to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, 13,521 of 24,206 trial sites being sponsored by the top 20 U.S. drug companies in late 2007 were taking place beyond our borders, where data can be harvested cheaper and faster than the data gathered inside the U.S. And the study adds that the number of countries hosting trials has doubled in 10 years. Most of the countries hosting clinical trials may be using individuals who could never afford the medications and approval for these trials has been less than half. What are your thoughts?


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