The News Review:

- Acadia Clinical Research studies flu drug in Bangor
- Sanofi-Aventis CE Looks to Cut Research Spending
- Winthrop Earns Research Accreditation

Acadia Clinical Research studies flu drug in Bangor
Bangor Daily News
The privately owned company is recruiting adults 18 and older who have early influenza symptoms ? fever cough aches and pains ? for a clinical study of peramivir a new antiviral medication. Instead of spending a miserable week in bed you might be feeling much better in just a few hours. In the process you could get paid $300 and become a public health hero. According to Gail Baillargeon president of the research company peramivir has been tested through several winter flu seasons to determine its ability to reduce severe flu symptoms and prevent transmission of the potentially dangerous disease.
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Sanofi-Aventis CE Looks to Cut Research Spending
Wall Street Journal Blogs
Sanofi’s total annual R&D budget is more than $5 billion he said. Most of that goes toward mid- to late-stage clinical trials of promising experimental drugs. But the company also spends several hundred million dollars a year on pre-clinical research and early-stage clinical trials. He said he’d “like to take a major chunk” — about 50% — of the budget for pre-clinical research and early-stage trials and use the money to partner on drugs being developed by small companies. “Part of the reason the pharma model didn’t work is we just kept throwing money at things and hoping the next blockbuster would come along” he said.

Winthrop Earns Research Accreditation
Garden City News
Aloia MD the Hospital’s Chief Academic fficer. “AAHRPP accreditation is our assurance to them that multiple systems are in place to safeguard them throughout the research process. ” As part of its mission as an academic medical center Winthrop has a vigorous biomedical research program that includes both basic research (laboratory studies) and clinical research (studies that involve human subjects such as clinical trials). AAHRPP accreditation applies to the clinical components of the research enterprise. “The 159 accredited organizations have demonstrated that they can achieve AAHRPP’s high standards” said AAHRPP President and CE Marjorie A.