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MEMBERNEWS AMAG PHARMACEUTICALS RELYPSA AMAG Pharmaceuticals announced the appointment of Melissa Bradford Klug as senior vice president of business development and strategy. Klug joins AMAG from Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, where she completed a number of signiﬁcant transactions, including two corporate development transactions within six months of Mallinckrodt's spin out of Covidien. Daniel K. Spiegelman, executive vice president and chief ﬁnancial oﬃcer of BioMarin Pharmaceutical, has been elected to the Relypsa, board of directors. Also joining the board is Kenneth J. Hillan, president and chief executive oﬃcer of Achaogen. B. BRAUN B. Braun Medical U.S. and CeGaT GmbH have established a U.S.-based company to enter the U.S. diagnostics market. The new company, B. Braun CeGaT, LLC, is based in B. Braun Medical's Bethlehem, PA, headquarters. GLAXOSMITHKLINE Codexis has signed a platform technology license agreement with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Codexis granted GSK a license to use Codexis' proprietary CodeEvolver protein engineering platform technology in the ﬁeld of human healthcare. INFORMA Informa Training Partners has been awarded the New England Chapter American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) 2014 Will Solimene Award for Excellence in Medical Communication for two new training programs. "The Business of Oncology" and "Understanding Accountable Care Organizations: An Evolving Customer Category" were recognized for outstanding work in medical, biomedical and health communication. Informa also recently added two new products to their portfolio of training solutions; Navigator, a solution for crossplatform, media-rich content deployment, and inTegrator, a native IOS app that supports the aggregation and organization of content in a variety of ﬁle types. MERCK MorphoSys AG and Merck have signed an agreement to discover and develop therapeutic antibodies against undisclosed immune checkpoints. MorphoSys and Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical division of Merck, will join forces to develop therapies that modulate the immune system's natural ability to ﬁght tumors. QSTREAM Qstream announced that its game-based mobile platform is being used by American Medical Systems (AMS), a subsidiary of Endo International, to help sales reps remember what they need to know for eﬀective selling. AMS has launched its sixth Qstream initiative in support of the company's prostate health product line. SANOFI Aastrom Biosciences has completed its acquisition of Sanoﬁ's cell therapy and regenerative medicine (CTRM) business unit. Aastrom paid $4 million in cash and $2.5 million in a promissory note to acquire the CTRM business, which includes three marketed products in the United States and Europe as well as manufacturing and production centers in the United States and Denmark. Sanoﬁ and Medtronic also have signed a memorandum of understanding to enter into a global strategic alliance in diabetes, aimed at improving patient experience and outcomes for people with diabetes around the world. ZOGENIX Zogenix announced that David Brushwood, J.D., R.Ph., a recently retired professor emeritus of pharmaceutical outcomes and policy at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy, has joined the company's External Safe Use Board. HIGH QUALITY TRANSLATION IS JUST THE BEGINNING Your life science customers and Your life science customers and communities span the globe, yet communities span the globe, yet are more connected than ever. Now are more connected than ever. Now is the time to partner with a trusted is the time to partner with a trusted global expert for all your multilingual global expert for all your multilingual training needs. training needs. To learn more, visit To learn more, visit lifesciences.lionbridge.com today. lifesciences.lionbridge.com today. Qstream also announced that Excellerate is using the Qstream platform to power its innovative new program, "EngageRx: The 3 Keys to Patient-Focused Growth for Pharma Professionals." FOCUS | FALL 2014 | www.L-TEN.org 51 http://lifesciences.lionbridge.com http://lifesciences.lionbridge.com http://www.L-TEN.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Focus Magazine - Fall 2014

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From the President: Recognizing Value (and Vice Versa)
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Guest Editor: On the Cutting Edge of Training and Technology
Front of the Room: The Presenter's Burden
Neuroscience: Learning, Disrupted
LTEN Conference Wrap-Up
Creating a Foundation for Innovation Training
The Science of Learning: Improving How We Train
Sustaining Learning, Driving Results
Member Solutions: Training the Tenured
Podcasts: Delivering Information and Inspiration
Leader-Led Learning: Developing Capabilities
The Power of Virtual Coaching and Mobile Video
Diving into Product Launches
Virtual How: Onboarding Training Programs
Member News
Ad Index
Focus Contacts
5 Questions with DJ Mitsch

Focus Magazine - Fall 2014