Drug Development/R&D
New medicines lead to improved patient outcomes and societal benefits, but R&D is a long and costly process. Ongoing health economics research aims to find the right balance between incentivising manufacturers to innovate and ensuring affordable access for health systems.
Opportunities for Utilising ‘Real World Data’ in South Korea
20 October 2017
OHE publishes a report assessing the capacity in South Korea for the collection and use of real-world data in health care.
OHE Lunchtime Seminar: The UK Biotech Sector and Brexit: Past Performance and Future Prospects
25 September 2017
OHE Lunchtime Seminar with Sir Geoffrey Owen and Professor Michael Hopkins. The biotech sector of the US has enjoyed a success that the UK sector has…
An Insurance Framework for Funding New Antibiotics
22 September 2017
A new paper sets out an insurance model as part of a global solution to incentivise R&D for new antibiotics to tackle multi-drug resistance. It offers…
Postdoctoral Position in The Economics of Life Sciences R&D
27 June 2017
The Structural Genomics Consortium Oxford, University of Oxford, in collaboration with OHE (Prof Adrian Towse) and Dr Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz, is recruiting for a Postdoctoral Position in…
Professor Dame Sally Davies: Ten Years of the NIHR: Achievements and Challenges for the Next Decade
15 June 2017
In November 2016 Professor Dame Sally Davies delivered the 23rd OHE Annual Lecture on the topic of: Ten Years of the NIHR: Achievements and Challenges for…
Assessing the Value of New Antibiotics: Additional Elements of Value for Health Technology Assessment Decisions
30 May 2017
Without new antibiotics, more patients will die from previously treatable infections. A key issue is how the value of antibiotics can be appropriately assessed by payers…
New Publication: ‘Macro’ Evaluation of the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
22 May 2017
OHE and RAND Europe were commissioned by the Oxford BRC to undertake a programme of top-down evaluations of aspects of the impact of the BRC. This…
Incentives for New Drugs and Vaccines to Tackle Anti-Microbial Resistance
16 May 2017
Resistance to antibiotics is growing. Additional R&D is required. Both Transferable Intellectual Property Rights and Market Entry Rewards should be explored for use in Europe as…
New Publication: Gene Therapy: Understanding the Science, Assessing the Evidence, and Paying for Value
7 March 2017
Just published is a new report entitled: Gene Therapy: Understanding the Science, Assessing the Evidence, and Paying for Value. The publication is a report of the…