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DARPA Network Challenge: DARPA: 2009: Contest to use social networking to locate ten red balloons placed around the United States. Won in less than 9 hours. United States: DARPA Shredder Challenge 2011: DARPA: 2011: Contest to reconstruct documents shredded by a variety of paper shredding techniques. United States: DARPA Spectrum Challenge ...
Founded in 1958, PhRMA lobbies on behalf of pharmaceutical companies. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] PhRMA is headquartered in Washington, D.C. [ 1 ] The organization has lobbied fiercely against allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices for Medicare recipients, [ 4 ] and filed lawsuits against the drug price provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act . [ 5 ]
Along with the award, NeOnc was featured as the cover story in the recent edition of Pharma Tech Outlook. Entitled, A Novel Approach to Treating Brain Cancer , the article highlighted the ability of the NEO™ technology platform to produce novel drugs and delivery methods designed to overcome the persistent challenges in delivering ...
The Shingo Prize for Organizational Excellence is an award for organizational excellence given to organizations worldwide by the Shingo Institute, part of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. In order to be selected as a recipient of the Shingo Prize, an organization "challenges" or applies for the ...
Inducement prizes have a long history as a policy tool for promoting innovation and solving various technical and societal challenges. These prizes offer a compensation reward, which can be in the form of monetary or non-monetary benefits, and aim to engage diverse groups of actors to develop solutions with low barriers to entry. [4]
Dec. 6—The California State Association of Counties (CSAC) announced on Wednesday that Sutter County was awarded the top distinction for county innovation, with Yuba County also receiving an ...
Medpace Holdings, Inc. is a global clinical research organization (CRO) based in Cincinnati, Ohio, [2] [1] [3] employing approximately 5,400 people. Medpace's mission statement is "to accelerate the global development of safe and effective medical therapeutics" through its high science and disciplined operating approach that leverages local, regulatory, and deep therapeutic expertise across ...
The book Bad Pharma also discusses the influence of drug representatives, how ghostwriters are employed by the drug companies to write papers for academics to publish, how independent the academic journals really are, how the drug companies finance doctors' continuing education, and how patients' groups are often funded by industry.