Your relationship with recruitment agencies and consultants is of critical importance if you are to quickly secure employment. This article will help you to better understand the dynamics of this rela
Jeremy Tromans
LeadDiscovery is pleased to announce the completion of it's most recent DiscoveryDossier describing a new licensing or co-development opportunity relating the treatment of erectile dysfunction and fem
Dr Jon Goldhill
This week’s TherapeuticAdvances focuses on new targets for Alzheimer's disease. In particular the topic of the moment, GSK-3 (which is also featured in our recent DiscoveryDossier) and clusterin have
Dr Jon Goldhill
A successful conference can play a vital part in the sometimes onerous management task of keeping employees motivated and well trained and in the last decade conferences have become an essential part
Mark Stacey
This week we focus on new targets for asthma (MMP-9 & LXA4). We also identify emerging approaches to the unmet CNS diseases, Alzheimer's disease (Protein phosphatase 1) and stroke (ATII receptor antag
Dr Jon Goldhill
The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most highly R&D-intensive industries, more so than the electronics, communications, and aerospace industries. The industry faces a continuing challenge in emp
Dr Faiz Kermani
You could spend days trawling through the situations vacant, ringing and writing to prospective employers “on spec” and buying numerous beers for your buddies in return for their “putting a good word
Elaine Ford Futures Resourcing
This week’s TherapeuticAdvances focuses on emerging indications for histone deacetylase modulators including breast cancer and asthma. In addition we feature premature ejaculation, an indication that
Dr Jon Goldhill, LeadDiscovery
It has been an interesting journey for e-detailing; something that has for a while now been hyped as the ‘killer’ e-business application for today’s pharmaceutical sales & marketing teams with which t
Colin Williams
Mental disorders affect 44.3 million Americans in a given year. According to analysts the current global CNS therapeutics market is estimated at $40-55 billion, accounting for around 15% of the total
Dr Jon Goldhill
In March, 1998, Pfizer launched sildenafil (Viagra) for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. This move had an explosive effect on Pfizer's financial figures. More generally, this pharmaceutical mile
Dr Jon Goldhill
The day of your interview for your dream job has finally dawned. You’ve researched the role and the organisation, prepared your examples of skill and competency and polished your shoes!
Trudy Lowe
The “Comfort Zone” is not a productive place to be for representative or manager. This zone leads to inaction, and poor, or at best, average results.
Allan Mackintosh
In its Report on the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, the House of Commons Select Committee on Health has recommended that all information which NICE uses in its decision-making processes b
Richard Best
LeadDiscovery, Dr Chris Berrie and Dr Victoria Richon (Executive Director of Biology, Aton Pharma and HDAC field-leader) have collaborated to produce one of the most comprehensive reviews of HDAC rese
Lead Discovery
Well, you’ve done it – you’ve been selected for the all-important interview for your dream job in the pharmaceutical industry! But does the thought of it fill you with adrenaline and a sense of chall
Trudy Lowe
Nurse teams are becoming ever more prominent in the sales and marketing plans of pharmaceutical companies. Nurses can offer pharmaceutical companies a unique opportunity to deliver multiple outcomes s
Karen Ashurst
For many reps the GP’s secretary is the key to the practice, fitting in details amongst the never-ending and myriad demands of the local ill. But what do these zealots of the appointments diary really
Sukhveer Khera
Increasingly, companies are opting for a formalised, objective structure as a means to standardise the interview process. To a certain extent, this allows all candidates an equal opportunity to presen
Jeremy Tromans
Increasingly it seems that locational flexibility may be an essential point to mention on the CV for a career-minded corporate animal in the Life Sciences sector.
Maurice Herring
Pfizer's acquisition of Pharmacia for nearly $60 billion in stock has created the largest pharmaceutical company in the world with annual revenues of $48 billion.
Imran Khalifa
Just when we were thinking that the EU was a complete waste of money, news reached PharmiWeb Towers this week about a ground breaking plan concocted by bureaucrats in Greece to standardise all cvs/res
Daniel Judge
“I can’t get in – there is no appointment system.” And yet, there are sales representatives who do manage to access these so-called “difficult to see doctors”. How is this, when the majority of sa
Allan Mackintosh
Jon Parton, Director, Direct Marketing, Strategic and Medical communications, AstraZeneca and Head of their global branding initiative will this September chair a conference programme dedicated to glo
Vision In Business
Allan Mackintosh started in the industry in 1982 working as a sales representative with a subsidiary of the then Ciba-Geigy called Zyma UK Ltd.
Allan Mackintosh
You’ve assessed your strengths and weaknesses, set your career and life goals and prepared your CV to ensure you market yourself in the best possible way.
Trudy Lowe
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