Gilead Sciences has used Project Insight, web-based project management software, since 2005 to streamline their product development, and make it more efficient and productive. It is not surprising that they consistently apply innovative technology to remain ahead of the curve.
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The Northern California biopharmaceutical company, scored a huge success earlier this decade when it sensed an opening for HIV drugs that were simpler and cheaper than standard treatments, which required patients to pop dozens of different pills throughout the day. Gilead's researchers responded with a new manufacturing process allowing them to produce compounds of several drugs to be released into the bloodstream at different times. The result was a daily-dose pill that replaced the old drug cocktails for a fraction of the cost. Now the company is going after another big market: patient-friendly treatments for hepatitis C, a chronic liver disease that affects 170 million people worldwide.
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