R&D Solutions
FOR PHARMA & LIFE SCIENCES
Make data-driven drug discovery & development decisions and streamline literature monitoring for pharmacovigilance
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Developing effective, safe and affordable drugs today requires targeted and data-driven R&D. Managing compliance and safety risks as available data increases requires scalable and streamlined adverse event monitoring.
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Elsevier’s R&D Solutions integrate data, analytics and technology to help you make data-driven drug discovery and development decisions and streamline literature monitoring for pharmacovigilance. Our pharma & life sciences solutions — Reaxys, ScienceDirect , Scopus, Embase, QUOSA PV, PharmaPendium and Pathway Studio — are all backed by Elsevier's unique and deep expertise in data, science and technology.
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R&D Solutions for Drug Discovery & Development
Realize the potential of data-driven drug discovery and development with solutions that help you increase research efficiency and ensure a thriving R&D pipeline.
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R&D Solutions for Pharmacovigilance
Achieve pharmacovigilance with less pain with solutions that help you identify critical patient safety signals and automate the process of capturing and managing adverse drug reaction and safety information.
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Our customers
Thousands of researchers and other pharma R&D professionals working in drug discovery, development and pharmacovigilance rely on our solutions. We serve:
- 47 of the top 50 biopharmaceutical companies named by PharmExec
- 22 of the 25 world's largest pharmaceutical companies ranked by Forbes
- All 10 of the most innovative pharmaceutical companies, as recognized at the 2016 JP Morgan Healthcare conference
Precision Medicine in R&D
Drug makers are turning their focus from developing blockbuster drugs to making advances in precision medicine treatments. But what will they need to do to succeed?
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Holistically addressing drug development bottlenecks and attrition rates
High-quality data and in silico tools have considerable potential to reduce bottlenecks and attrition rates across the drug development process, if applied innovatively.
A Practical Guide to End-to-End Pharmacovigilance
Pharmacovigilance leaders must be both strategic and practical in their approach to achieving more with less, making wise use of existing resources.
Elsevier's R&D Solutions for Pharma & Life Sciences
Reaxys
Drive successful early drug discovery by providing chemists the shortest path to relevant literature, patent information, valid compound properties, and experimental procedures.
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Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry
Achieve more efficient hit identification and lead optimization by providing chemists the shortest path to normalized compound–target affinity data and comprehensive pharmacokinetic, efficacy, toxicity, safety and metabolic profiles.
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Embase
Uncover drug-disease relationships and drug-drug interactions by increasing the discovery of biomedical evidence and providing comprehensive relevant, up-to-date biomedical information.
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PharmaPendium
Make more informed drug development decisions on safety and efficacy, risk assessments and mitigation, and study designs by providing researchers with searchable FDA/EMA drug approval documents and comparative drug safety data.
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QUOSA PV
Promote efficiency and organizational compliance by centralizing the discovery of adverse event information and automating information monitoring and triage in a scalable environment.
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Pathway Studio
Streamline target and biomarker identification and drug repurposing by providing biological researchers with greater insight into the mechanisms of disease and facilitating the interpretation of experimental data.
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Professional Services
Drive innovative pharmaceutical research by resolving challenges with data quality and integration and making data easier for researchers to compare, analyze, interpret and share.
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Text Mining
Help pharmaceutical R&D professionals and other researchers get meaningful answers to complex pharmaceutical research questions through rapid retrieval of highly specified information from unstructured content.
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ScienceDirect
Help researchers understand the entire breadth of research surrounding a disease by helping them more effectively and efficiently search authoritative, full-text scientific, technical and health content.
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Scopus
Detect trends, find partnerships and identify experts to stay on the cutting edge of research through the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, including tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
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