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In recent decades the types of therapy in research and the marketplace have undergone some radical transformations. Where most therapies were once squarely aimed at endemic diseases of the West, the recent biotechnology revolution has hugely increased the number of therapeutic targets, with more complex medicines – often parenteral – aimed at less common illnesses or at more specific sub groups of patients with more common conditions. For example, we are seeing oncology therapies targeting smaller sub groups of patients, the rise of therapies for orphan indications, the targeting of antibodies and proteins for specific complications of illness such as preventing SLE crisis and so on. The drive towards community medicine means an infrastructure has grown up to administer these medicines in the home and to run clinical trials in the same way.

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Dr Graham Wylie is CEO of the Medical Research Network Ltd, an affiliate company of Healthcare at Home. Graham, who trained as a physician, has 18 years of experience in clinical trials, starting with 10 years at Pfizer in clinical development and corporate HQ, with roles ranging from project management of trials to global implementation of standard trial processes and IT tools. He then joined Parexel International in 1999 as Medical Director for Northern Europe, progressing to Vice President of Account Management for Europe by 2003. In 2005 he joined Healthcare at Home to develop their clinical trials activities into a full business unit, known as ‘The Medical Research Network’, spinning the division off as a separate company in 2006.
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