"This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions should now be undertaken with increased urgency, and at an accelerated pace,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.29

Talapan launched and sold the pharmaceutical software company formerly Clarix, now Phase Forward, to Oracle.

FORBES: Are the Trenches of Entrepreneurship Dug In War?

That phase of his high-octane career culminated in the sale of his Miami-based pharmaceutical company, Ivax Corp.

FORBES: Teva Chairman Continues To Seek Undervalued Biopharmaceuticals