The game, which comes available for desktop and iPad, aims to educate patients, physicians and the public about the challenges of managing type 2 diabetes and its associated complications. 

Boehringer’s Arnd Prilipp said: “The aim and design of the game is simple. However, effective management of type 2 diabetes and its complications is not. 

“To simulate this, players are tasked with simultaneously saving the healthy lifestyle items whilst combating the many complications – and it is not easy.”

Complications Combat is designed to raise awareness of the diabetes-related complications, such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, kidney disease, eye problems and foot ulcers.

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GSK has promised to supply doses of Cervarix® to four new GAVI demonstration projects at a significantly discounted price of $4.60 per dose.

GSK currently supplies more than 80% of its total vaccine volumes to developing countries and is a long-standing partner with GAVI. This latest commitment adds to existing agreements to supply up to 480 million doses of its pneumococcal vaccine to GAVI over the next 10 years and 132 million doses of its rotavirus vaccine to GAVI over the next five years.

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We have are performing a review of the IT recruitment  market to help us understand the salary brackets for IT professionals particlulary those who work in regulated GxP environments, such as CSV, GxP Validation, Clinical Systems, Safety Systems, Laboratory Systems and other industry specific positions. We are coming to the end of our review period so now is a great time to ensure you participate.

The survey only takes 5 minutes to complete  and the results of this survey will be published, and will help you with your job and salary expectations for 2013 so make sure you fill it in today!

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The Global Head of R&D IT provides the leadership, strategic vision, management and implementation of enterprise-wide, regulated and non-regulated, data and information management systems. 

Responsibilities

The successful Global Head of R&D IT duties will include:

• Provide leadership and oversight for the development and installation of major clinical, project management and regulatory information management systems.
• Provides the strategic planning for regulated and non-regulated global R&D information and data management services, processes and technologies.
• Collaborate wit Head of R&D Division  IT  in global headquarters
• Provide strategy with other global heads on the implementation and operation of, global drug development information and data management services
• Budget management
• Work closely with regional IT functions to develop and maintain an enterprise-wide infrastructure
• Lead the global R&D IT Committee

Qualifications

As Global Head of R&D IT, you will have the following qualifications, skills and experience:

• Educated to MBA, MSc or equivalent in an IT discipline
• Extensive experience in a IT leadership role within pharmaceutical environment
• Proven experience of IT clinical development environment (statistics, data management, clinical technology, regulatory submissions)
• Division and project budget management
• Solid knowledge of pharmaceutical R&D function
• Ability to express and negotiate R&D IT strategy
• Ability to conceptualize, launch and deliver multiple information system projects on time and within budget. 
• Understanding of and ability to implement business process architectures

How to apply

Apply online now

For more information or to apply for this  position, please contact Jake Phillips 01438870022 or email jphillips@ck-it.co.uk Please quote reference IT26861 in all correspondence. Entitlement to work in the EEA is essential.

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The deal, thoughto be worth $430m upfront, covers three key potential targets for therapies in type 2 diabetes which has been identified by Abide, and will provide Merck with worldwide commercial rights.

These targets are part of a group of enzymes know as serine hydrolases, which Abide says have potential in the treatment of metabolic conditions, such as diabetes.

Merck’s large fee demonstrates some level of confidence in their potential in diabetes – an increasingly competitive market as levels increase across the world. And comes just days after Merck announced it would collaborate with Pfizer on phase III diabetes compound ertugliflozin.

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CK Associates are thrilled to announce they have been presented with the exclusive 2012 Supplier Excellence Award for Science by Kelly Services at the official ceremony held last night in London.

Jonathan Hart Smith, MD of CK Associates, said,

 “Having supported Kelly Services with scientific recruitment since 2007 we are honoured to have been recognised for our hard work and hope this sees the continuation of a great partnership.”

John W Healy, Vice President and Talent Supply Chain Strategist, Kelly Services said, “As Kelly continues to apply increasing levels of management science and supply chain disciplines to our approach for delivering optimal workforce solutions, we continue to emphasize the value and importance of having the best supply chain model and supplier community supporting it.  We are pleased to honour our global supplier community with these awards.”

Kelly’s judging criteria were based on how suppliers supported multiple, strategic workforce solution programmes managed by Kelly in 2012.  They were also evaluated on their performance in the following areas:

• Program Scorecard Results
• Compliance
• Kelly Program Specific Survey Results
  • Service Delivery
  • Citizenship
  • Partnership
  • Innovation/Value Delivered
  • Program Recommendation
• Supplier Awards and Recommendation Committee Approval

For more information on the recruitment services provided by CK Associates, contact Group Marketing Manager Gail Whittle on 0114 283 9956 or gwhittle@ckagroup.co.uk

CK Associates background

CK Associates was established in 1991 as a recruitment company specialising in sourcing scientific and engineering staff for the chemical, environmental, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.  The CK Group now comprises three highly successful recruitment divisions trading as CK Science, CK Clinical and CK IT.  For more information visit www.ckagroup.co.uk

Responsibilities

The successful SharePoint IT Developer duties will include:

• Develop and implement projects using primarily .NET and C#
• Develop SharePoint applications and web parts.

Qualifications

As SharePoint IT Developer, you will have the following qualifications, skills and experience:

• Experience using .NET Framework, C# , ASP .NET,
• Experience with XML, SOAP, XSLT, HTML, DHTML, VBScript, JavaScript, CSS.
• Proven background of SharePoint (2007 or 2010 versions) development
• Experience with web parts design and development
• SharePoint Designer workflows experience

How to Apply

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For more information or to apply for this SharePoint IT Developer position, please contact Jake Phillips on 01438870022 or email jphilips@ck-it.co.uk. Please quote reference IT26586 in all correspondence. Entitlement to work in the EEA is essential.

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Responsibilities

The successful IT Developer duties will include:

• The full lifecycle of development
• Gathering requirements from end clients and internal scientists
• Microsoft, .Net framework, C# development
• Designing mobile phone/tablet applications to record client requests
• The role is very client facing and can involve putting on a white coat and being on ground level with the lab staff or gathering requirements directly from clients. 

Qualifications

As IT Developer, you will have the following qualifications, skills and experience:

• Strong interaction and client facing skills
• Microsoft SQL 2008 development experience
• .Net and C#, T-SQL development experience
• Exposure to VB6 and VBScript advantageous
• Mobile platforms (Android, iOS) knowledge required

How to apply

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For more information or to apply for this IT Developer position, please contact Jake Phillips on the contact details provided. Please quote reference 26728 in all correspondence.  Entitlement to work in the EEA is essential.

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We are performing a review of the IT recruitment  market which will help us understand the salary brackets for IT professionals particlulary those who work in regulated GxP environments, such as CSV, GxP Validation, Clinical Systems, Safety Systems, Laboratory Systems and other industry specific positions.

The survey  only takes 5 minutes to complete  and the results of this survey will be published, and will help you with your job and salary expectations for 2013.

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Forward thinkng companies have already begun with business operations through expanding into new markets, adopting more flexible and inclusive approaches to R&D and trying to make their processes more efficiently.

However this also needs to include technology, with cloud computing and mobile devices already making headlines. Though to truly engage with healthcare professionals, payers and patients companies need to start looking beyond these developments.

Management company Accenture have identified six cross-industry technology trends that will influence companies over the next three to five years, including:

1. 1. Context-based services
2. 2. Converging data architectures
3. 3. Industrialised data servics
4. 4. Social-driven IT
5. 5. PaaS-enabled agility
6. 6. Orchestrated analytical security

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