July 28, 2010
Enterprise Productivity Paper Published
A paper by Ted Grasela and Bob Slusser has been published in the August 2010 issue of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Grasela and Slusser propose in the paper (titled Improving Productivity With Model-Based Drug Development: An Enterprise Perspective) that model-based drug development can be used to guide the design, analysis, and interpretation of innovative trials that can be done faster, at less cost, and with a greater yield of information than possible with the current empirical drug development paradigm. According to the authors, a shift to model-based drug development, effective integrated project teams, and a structured, disciplined, and continual evaluation of the probability of new drug’s success will improve productivity and thus help ensure the survival of the pharmaceutical industry.
