• Compound Management Challenge
• Solutions to Materials and Substance Handling
• Compound Management: The Hub of Drug Research
• A Typical Screening Procedure
• Inventory Management Software: The Missing Link
• The Compound Management Solution
• Compound Management Solutions Drive Process Improvement
• Open And Integrated Operations

2. High Velocity Laboratory - Applying Manufacturing Process Systems to Research - Zymark Corporation

• Research Applications of Manufacturing Principles
• Pipeline Velocity
• Traditional Departmental Manufacturing
• Cellular Manufacturing
• Pull Systems
• The Visual Factory
• Process Analysis
• From the Manufacturing Plant to the Discovery Factory

3. High Throughput Target Discovery and Validation - Maximizing Productivity in Genomics -
Millennium Pharmaceuticals

• Industrialization of Target Identification and Validation
• The Structure of a Research Organization
• Components of a Self-Learning Discovery Effort
• The Old Paradigm of Disease Target Discovery
• The New Paradigm of Disease Target Discovery
• The New Paradigm of Target Validation and Lead Generalization
• Academic Collaborations to Procure Technology
• Challenges in the Post-Genomic Era
• Building an Industrialized Target Discovery Process
• Integrated Information and Knowledge Management Systems
• Resource Allocation Management
• Specific Goals of Production Teams
• Industrialization of Later Stages in Drug Discovery

4. An Operations Approach to Combinatorial Chemistry and Assay Development - Axys Pharmacuticals

• The Task of Optimizing Combinatorial Chemistry Operations
• The Insatiable Demand for Chemical Compounds
• A Laundry List of Problems and Inefficiencies
• The Need for Speed in Chemical Synthesis
• Re-Organization: Separating Development and Production
• Protocol Development is the Rate Limiting Step
• Quality Control for Chemical Libraries
• High Quality Chemical Libraries
• Combinatorial Chemistry is a Process Development Function
• Optimization of Lead Discovery Timeline
• Full Automation vs. Partial Automation
• Database Quality and Materials Management
• of Balancing Powers to Conduct R&D Quality Control
• Organizational Buy-in to Project Management
• Follow-up Libraries
• Reintegration of the Chemical Development and Project Teams
• Overcoming Cultural Obstacles to Productivity
• The Future of Combinatorial Chemistry

Report Format
• 72 pages of transcripts and commentaries
• 25+ exhibits
• 25+ weblinks
• Fully indexed and searchable for easy navigation

Who Should Read This Report?
Executives in Project Management, Program Management, Discovery or Clinical Operations working in Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Companies

Price -  $895 

Published in September, 1999

ORDER NOW