QUALITY OVER QUANTITY, AN EXPERT-BASED EVALUATION
The R&D response to the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak has been massive, promoted by unprecedented funding to support innovative solutions to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
Clinical research and its benefits for the National Health Care System
Clinical research is essential in contemporary medicine. It is a source of knowledge to improve healthcare, as it which is based on evidence. It helps to evaluate new drugs and , therapies. It is a a necessary step to test new assets but also to develop and gather advice from the best key opinion leaders.
The Start-up Graveyard
Across all industries 9 out of 10 start-ups will fail. This staggering statistic doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. In healthcare the failure-rate may not be as detrimental but remains cause for concern. Which begs the question: why do so many start-ups fail?
Two companies supported by HiTT get outstanding reward.
HiTT celebrates that Barcelona Activa recognizes Qbeast with an award for the best project of high technological impact and Hospital Vall d’Hebron obtains more than 1M€ benefit from the exploitation of a patent license.
Perspectives to mitigate payer uncertainty in health technology assessment of novel oncology drugs
Oriol Sola Morales has collaborated in the creation of an article about reimbursement decisions on new oncology drugs. You can access to the entire article in this link.
Big Data analytical tools project
Health Innovation Technology Transfer (HITT) is working on the development of an European project in Big Data tools. This project tries to understand the needs of the professionals that use Big Data tools in its analytical procedures.
New acquisition cost of Repatha
Today we learn that Amgen is lowering the acquisition cost of Repatha by 60% in the US.
Gene therapy: Will it deliver its commercial promise?
On April 10th 2018, Goldman Sachs published “The Genome Revolution” report on gene therapy, in which its analyst posed the thought-provoking question: “is curing patients a sustainable business model?”