Following the tenets of Radical Transparency, LifeSciHub is an open-source business case study in real time. What is more important to a business than its income and expenses? As a member of the community you are welcome to join LifeSciHub’s Radical Transparency Annual Report coming on April 26, 2023 at 12 noon ET, just in […]
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Dr. Alexander Schacht is a drug development expert well known for Real World Evidence statistics. Having spent many years honing his craft at Lilly, Boehringer Ingelheim, UCB and others Alexander left full time employment for the adventurous landscape of independent consulting and small business. His podcast, The Effective Statistician, which just celebrated its 300th episode, […]
READ MORELifeSciHub is an ever-growing network of independent drug development subject matter experts. Every year, more and more industry veterans leave the corporate ladder to become independent consultants. From manufacturing experts to medical affairs, there is a vast abundance of the highest quality, most valuable drug development talent available to industry. The average member of the […]
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Thanks to the “gig economy” some of the best drug development talent has left the drug sponsor to work as independent consultants. From manufacturing tech transfer experts to commercialization analysts, regulatory strategists to biostatisticians, every drug development department now has an abundance of choice for on-demand, highly experienced drug development expertise. A common challenge is […]
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LifeSciHub is excited to welcome all drug development independent consultants to this Meetup being held in conjunction with the Drug Information Association Annual Meeting in Boston, June 26-29. Whether you are attending the conference or not, if you are an independent consultant in drug development, come to this meet up, network with other small business […]
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The DIA Professional Development Community is looking for volunteers who are attending the DIA Annual in Boston, June 26-29, 2023, for a fun and interesting project that will help build your brand, visibility and network. And did I mention fun? Following last year’s wildly successful “Tchotchke Awards” we need more judges! Requirement: you must have […]
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LifeSciHub, a strategic, radically transparent subcontracting channel for drug sponsors to engage with small drug development subject matter expert (SME) businesses, provides an attractive opportunity to small businesses: the Connector Model. A small SME business is focused on its “brand”: its particular area of subject matter expertise, that which it does well, it curates excellent […]
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As businesses kick off 2023 we all look towards the future, excited about what’s to come, thinking about what’s gone before, and how best to use those lessons learned towards future prosperity. Networks are the future, and LifeSciHub is a nascent “Monetized Network”. To our knowledge no one has created a business quite like this […]
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LifeSciHub is thrilled to present Greg Ball of ASAP Process Consulting, Inc. Greg, one of a handful of leading Aggregate Safety Assessment Planning (ASAP) experts in the world, recently left Novovax to help industry as a whole adapt to this new multidisciplinary process, soon to be required by FDA. It’s a long time coming. The […]
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It should come as no surprise that drug sponsors are very concerned with compliance. LifeSciHub Current Administrator Sheila Mahoney: “As a regulatory person at heart, I had thought a drug sponsor’s primary risk concerns were related to drug safety and efficacy. Only when I started LifeScihub, and began encountering drug sponsor HR and legal groups, […]
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An R&D SME’s Cautiously Optimistic Journey Into The Land Of HR- A Report From BioNJ’s HR Conference, September 23, 2022 As a regulatory and clinical operations SME I was a bit of a fish out of water at September’s BioNJ’s Pharmaceutical Human Resources Conference. Representing LifeSciHub, a network of independently incorporated experts from all across […]
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Today on the Center for the Transformation of Work thought leadership call we heard from Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski 🧠creator of Braintrust, a marketplace for creatives. Although LifeSciHub and Braintrust have followed different pathways, we’ve both arrived at the same conclusions: -That “Take Rates” (mark ups) should decrease -That operating as a #dao unlocks value that would […]
READ MORELifeSciHub is grateful to have been instrumental in DIA ‘s recent decision to create a new conference attendance pricing category- Independent Contractor Rates- a 25% discount off industry registration rates Please, use this to spread the word and put pressure on any and every conference you would like to attend. This is just a little […]
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LifeSciHub’s believes in radical transparency, and as such, the entirety of LifeSciHub’s Profit & Loss is reported to members, both Expert Provider small businesses and Hiring Entities. We reviewed all 2021 inputs and outputs, all fees, expenses, and investments in: software development, office support, management and administrative staff payments, marketing, legal and insurance, everything. Also […]
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This post will explain the recent birth of the “DAO” concept, and why adapting it to the LifeSciHub business model might be not only possible, but amazing- a new way for a group of human beings to collaborate together, create value, and distribute that value. Not up and out to the 1%- execs and investors- […]
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LifeSciHub is a strategic response to the Great Resignation. Many happy and thriving independent experts may not realize how challenging it is for drug sponsors to find and engage independent experts. There are two reasons for this: 1) Many independent experts work mostly with small pharmbio, because there are far fewer administrative hurdles to go […]
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Everyone in the pharmaceutical industry knows there’s a big difference between small pharma and large pharma. Although the regulations, requirements and standards are exactly the same, the cultures and buying behaviors can be quite different. To add clarity to the discussion LifeSciHub describes and (loosely) quantifies the “Tier” structure of the pharmaceutical industry. There is […]
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LifeSciHub FAQ I already work directly with sponsors, why should I work with LifeSciHub? The LifeSciHub platform seeks to provide value in areas where small businesses can experience gaps, such as: Transparency Even the busiest small, independent businesses end up in a “subcontracting” type of arrangement sometimes, wherein a third party introduces but is not […]
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Expert Provider Problem: From Chris, a 25 year veteran of regulatory and clinical operations at Pfizer/Novartis/J&J/Amgen/Merck [one of these]: “I had a former colleague who took a role as Director of Regulatory Operations at Roche/AstraZeneca/AbbVie/GSK [one of these]. When she heard I became an independent consultant she called me right away for an eTMF inspection […]
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LifeSciHub appreciates independent workforce advocates across the globe, and Robert Vlach, author of The Freelance Way, is one of those amazing fellow advocates! From his newsletter this morning, 28 February 2022: —————– From: Freelancing.eu <hello@freelancing.eu> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2022 1:50 PM To: Sheila Mahoney <sheila@lifescihub.com> Subject: Freeletter 💙💛 Independence. Liberty. Freedom + Why to […]
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