Patrick Smith

United Kingdom

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Council Post: Adoption Of Model-Informed Drug Development Can Improve Pharma ROI

Nov 27, 2024 | forbes.com | Patrick Smith

Patrick Smith, President of Drug Development Solutions, Certara. Inflation and the Covid-19 pandemic have put pharmaceutical productivity front and center in recent years. Thus, drug companies are under mounting pressure to prove that new treatments are safe and effective and deliver R&D ROI. It’s a terrible outcome when a drug fails to receive regulatory approval in later phases of clinical development. This represents a huge amount of sunk costs for pharmaceutical companies.
ICE: Municipal bonds - reliable pricing for a fragmented market

Sep 17, 2024 | fi-desk.com | Ian Rycott |Patrick Smith

By Patrick Smith, Senior Director, Head of Municipal Evaluations, ICEThe complex and fragmented municipal bond market – comprised of around one million securities and 50,000-plus issuers – has long been a challenge to price. Data can be scarce, dated, and not standardized. ICE has been working to address this challenge over the past few years, drawing on our expertise in evaluations and depth of our pricing data.
The American Lawyer - How to spot the rainmaker: these attorney types thrive in business development

Oct 25, 2023 | intapp.com | Patrick Smith

Patrick Smith, Reporter at The American Lawyer, published an article on the findings of The Rainmaker Genome Project. The article highlights what makes the top rainmakers stand out from their peers as well as how this research will have an impact on they way firms compete for business. The American Lawyer – October 23, 2023How to spot the rainmaker: these attorney types thrive in business development
Israel declares a "long and difficult" war on Hamas. Blinken fears there will be U.S. citizens. U.S. among the dead and kidnapped

Oct 8, 2023 | newsrnd.com | Patrick Smith

By Patrick Smith - NBC NewsThe Israeli Security Cabinet officially approved this Sunday "the state of war", according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on the social network X (before, Twitter). The Israeli parliament gave the green light to "take meaningful military measures based on Article 40 of the Basic Law," he added, referring to the constitution's rule on declarations of war or large-scale military operations.
Six new species of Western Australian trilobites discovered

Sep 21, 2023 | phys.org | Patrick Smith |Heidi Allen |Australian Museum

Six new species of trilobites have been found deep underground in the Canning Basin of Western Australia. Dr. Patrick Smith at the Australian Museum and Heidi Allen from Geological Survey of WA tell us how this discovery has reshaped our understanding of ancient life and geological time in the region.
Libya floods: 10,000 feared dead after Derna dams collapse

Sep 12, 2023 | pressnewsagency.org | Patrick Smith

By Patrick SmithSome 10,000 people are feared dead after a Storm hits Libyaunleashing a devastating wave of floods throughout the east of the country. A disaster triggered by heavy rain from Mediterranean Storm Daniel intensified when two dams collapsed, with more than 2,000 people dead in a coastal town and thousands more missing, aid agencies and officials said Tuesday.
U.S. citizen detained in North Korea who crossed border without authorization

Jul 18, 2023 | newsrnd.com | Patrick Smith

By Patrick Smith - NBC NewsA U.S. citizen has been detained by North Korea after crossing the border from South Korea, the United Nations said Tuesday. "A U.S. citizen participating in a Joint Security Authority orientation tour crossed the Military Demarcation Line without authorization and entered the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)," the U.N. command said in a tweet in English and Korean.
Wooded utopias or expensive holiday camps? How Center Parcs divided the UK

Jun 23, 2023 | inkl.com | Patrick Smith

But for the devotees, the parcs are wooded utopias reachable by motorway, where kids can enjoy (yes, expensive) sport and craft sessions while grown-ups exhale in the Aqua Sana spa. They might reminisce about being buffeted by the wild water rapids (“I was so obsessed with them, but I also nearly drowned,” recalls The Independent’s Patrick Smith. “I got pulled under and then someone had to dive in to save me.”).
Functional absolutism is better for society than moral relativism

Feb 19, 2023 | news-leader.com | Patrick Smith

When I first started college, one of the courses I took was an ethics class introducing the idea of moral relativism. The takeaway, as I recall, is there are no moral absolutes. I have often wondered if such thinking began with a desire to emulate scientific expressions. How often have we heard the phrase, "everything is relative"? Though one has little to do with the other, is this a phonetic aping of the scientific concept of relativity?
New survey shows 'disturbing' lack of Holocaust awareness in the Netherlands

Jan 25, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Patrick Smith

CAIRO — Known as Egypt’s “golden boy,” the mummified remains of a teenager buried 2,300 years ago have long remained shrouded in mystery. Now they have been “digitally unwrapped” by scientists, revealing intimate details that went undiscovered for over a century. Radiologists at Cairo... 17 HOURS AGO