Jon Alterman is head of the Middle East program at the Center for Stategic and International Studies in Washington.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

But Professor Cengiz Aktar, head of European Union studies at Istanbul's Bachesehir University, says such reports from the commission are becoming just an academic exercise.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Such head-to-head studies are rare, because there is the risk that the new drug won't work as well as the old one--torpedoing sales.

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Novartis is also conducting full-scale head-to-head studies with Vioxx and Celebrex to try and prove that Prexige is the safest of the three, but these are not expected to be finished until after the drug goes before the Food and Drug Administration.

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He is the Head of Peace Studies Department and currently serves as Commissioner for the UK Commonwealth Scholarship Commission.

UNESCO: Professor David J. Francis