How Do I Find a List of Companies Working on a Particular Therapeutic Class of Drugs?

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Find a List of Companies Working on a Particular Therapeutic Class of Drugs?

TOPIC: R&D databases summarize information about forthcoming products and provide additional drug nomenclature for follow-up in medical bibliographic files. IMS R&D Focus (File 445) provides information on scientific and commercial developments in international pharmaceutical research and development. File 445 also highlights new drugs in research, changes in development phases, and licensing opportunities. In this example, you want to find companies that are working in the area of antiarthritic drugs that are in clinical trials.

You will use the therapeutic class code for antirheumatic drugs (M2). Then using the RANK command you can retrieve a list of companies that have drugs in this therapeutic class in a stage of development beyond the preclinical stage. Companies with most entries will be listed first.

COMMAND SUMMARY

BEGIN 445
SELECT PHASE OR CLINICALS OR IND OR PRE()REGISTRATION OR NDA
SELECT S1 AND TC=M2?
Click S2 > Tasks > Rank
Check Company Name

HOW TO...

1. BEGIN File 445, which contains data on drugs in clinical trials worldwide. 2. SELECT keywords for new drugs and clinical trials and OR them together. 3. SELECT the therapeutic class code for antirheumatic drugs (M2). Use truncation to retrieve narrower classes. 4. From the Set Links pane, click S2 > Tasks > Rank to see a list of fields to rank.
5. Check the field to rank, in this example company name (CO) and click OK.
A ranked list displays of those working in the area of antiarthritic or antirheumatic drugs. 6. To see a record, check the entry you want to view, select the format and click Search or use the View command.
Note in this example, one of the scientists from the Korea Research Institute is working on drugs in this therapeutic class.

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