Examples - Challenge, Action, Results

Oncology

Start-up company with drug delivery platform needed to determine which cancers were suitable targets for their technology and which would have the greatest chance of business success

• DPS performed in-depth analyses of the major types of cancers including incidence and mortality, current diagnosis and therapy, marketing issues and future treatments in development
   
• Company decided to concentrate efforts on two types of cancer

Large pharmaceutical company needed to know status of SERM’s in development for breast cancer and osteoporosis

• DPS conducted literature searches, attended scientific meetings and interviewed key opinion leaders
   
• Company was able to make decisions on where their product would most likely rank in the future and choose to allocated R&D resources to other areas