March 30, 2011
Productivity is not a four-letter word.
On that global stage called “The Pharmaceutical Industry,” one of the dramas unfolding is the urgency to improve productivity at all levels—industry, team, and individual.
March 16, 2011
Astronomy picture of the day.
During the time that I was a clinical pharmacology fellow, I joked that a working session with Lewis Sheiner was like a trip to the outer reaches of the solar system.
March 1, 2011
Computers win on Oscar night.
Being partial to computer power here at Cognigen, we were amazed to learn that a Sun Grid Engine - the same software Cognigen uses on our very own NONMEM grid - was used to create the movie Avatar.
January 24, 2011
So, how cold was it?
Snow in Alabama, a blizzard in Boston, the AFC championship game played at a wind chill of 5 degrees. . .Yep, it’s cold outside.
January 5, 2011
A short tour of the universe.
In this animation, every satellite, moon, planet, star, and galaxy is represented to scale and in the correct, measured location according the best scientific research to-date.
December 15, 2010
Impressions of Monet.
I never realized how many shades of red there are until I saw Red Chrysanthemums at the Monet exhibit in Paris.
November 22, 2010
Learning to be an architect of ideas.
Interviews with writers are a source of insight and inspiration for my work in the Pharma of the Future™ project.
November 2, 2010
You WILL innovate!
Innovation is something that comes from a mysterious creative force that strikes like lightning to the fortunate inventor—or is it?
September 15, 2010
But. . .my projects are special.
To be successful, interdisciplinary R&D needs a conceptual synthesis to bridge the disciplines and allow research results from one discipline to be applied to the questions of another. Disease-drug models can provide this conceptual synthesis.
September 15, 2010
Model hurricanes.
Although some meteorological modelers may disagree, it seems to me that models predicting development and movement of hurricanes are getting more and more accurate.
