Former competitors include British rowing legend James Cracknell, who completed the MDS in 2010.
Additionally, mid-stage trials in MDS and particularly in 5q- syndrome are continuing.
There are more than 10, 000 new cases of MDS diagnosed in the U.S. each year.
Currently, Celgene is enrolling patients for a phase III trial in MDS, List says.
One possibility is that one sales force will market products to doctors who specialize in MDS, and a second will market products that treat multiple myeloma.
"I am interested in Ellison's Raw Iron, " said Matthew Meyer, an NT administrator at MDS Harris, a pharmaceutical research firm in Lincoln, Neb.
Pharmion's most successful drug, Vidaza, is also approved to treat MDS, but it is used in a far more severe form of the disease.
Joining the Harvard Business School network "was an important factor" in choosing the school, says Riaz Bandali, vice president and general manager for MDS Pharma Services, who completed Harvard's advanced management program in the spring.
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So far the antiresearch crowd has forced the company to close a small operation that distributed primates in the U.K. Remarkably, antivivisectionists have not pursued Foster in the U.S. A bigger challenge to preclinical research may be to beat out such competitors as Covance, which originally specialized in human clinical trials, and MDS, a provider of contract drug discovery services.
Drew Rockwell, CEO at MDS Lavastorm Analytics, says one of the most common problems he sees in business operations is that companies are running their operations on Excel when they need more powerful, more comprehensive business software.
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Potentially, they may even reveal a form of the reverse assortative matching in that the top hospitals may be more likely to seek out MDs as leaders and vice versa.
In between spreadsheets and high end databases falls a whole class of problems which MDS Lavastorm Analytics wants to solve for companies.
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If you see no benefit, there are in general two paths your doctor might recommend (and I say doctor in the generic sense, given that many folks nowadays see physician assistants or nurse practitioners who often -- in my experience -- do a better job diagnosing and treating depression than do MDs).
Because MDS sufferers have a high response rate to Revimid, it is possible that appropriate trials could be conducted quickly in relatively small numbers of patients.
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