BTG Pharma Quiz September 2016

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BTG Pharma Quiz: Test Your Knowledge!

Challenge your understanding of the pharmaceutical industry with our engaging BTG Pharma Quiz from September 2016! This quiz consists of 8 carefully curated questions covering key events and breakthroughs in the biomedical field. Whether you are a professional in the industry or simply an enthusiast, this quiz is designed to enlighten and entertain.

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Test your knowledge on major companies and innovations
Gain insights into the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors

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On September 1st 2016, Europe's biggest biomedical lab opened in London after 5 years of construction.

The £650 million building, behind St Pancras station and the British Library, will be home to 1,250 scientists.

What is the name of lab?

Francis Crick Institute (Crick was one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA)

Alexander Fleming Institute (Fleming discovered penicillin)

Edward Jenner Institute (Jenner discovered the vaccine for small pox)

Joseph Lister Institute (Lister was the pioneer of antiseptic surgery)

Theresa May in Britain

Angela Merkel in Germany

Hillary Clinton in USA

Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland

Mary Barra at General Motors

Louise Makin at BTG

Is this the New World Order led by women?

Add one more to the list….

Emma Walmsley will become the most powerful woman in the Pharma industry when she takes over as CEO in March 2017.

She was appointed as CEO-designate on Sepetmber 20th 2016.

Which company will she become CEO of?

Johnson & Johnson

GSK

Novartis

Pfizer

In September 2016, the FDA approved Medtronic’s MiniMed 670G hybrid closed looped system.

This was the first FDA-approved device that is intended to automatically monitor glucose (sugar) and provide appropriate basal insulin doses with little or no input from the user.

It works by measuring glucose levels every five minutes and automatically administering or withholding insulin via the insulin pump strapped to the body.

What is this divide often referred to as

Artificial pancreas

Artificial gall bladder

Artificial bile duct

Artificial liver

On 9th September 2016, BTG announced the launch of X, a Radiation Safety Programme, designed to reduce the risk of radiation exposure when performing selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) with Therasphere.

Therasphere is a BTG product that uses 90-Yttrium glass microspheres to deliver high doses of radiation to liver tumors while sparing normal tissue.

X is an online resource featuring a range of educational tools and materials on radiation protection, health and safety. It offers advice and guidance on reducing exposure levels for healthcare professionals and patients pre, during and post procedure.

X is

Therasafe

Beta

Shield

GM-Zero

Monsanto is an American agrochemical company that is consistently crowned as the “most evil corporation on Earth!”

Despite its significant positive contributions to chemistry and biotechnology, it is viewed as a company that remains focused on developing innovative ways to harm the planet and its people.

The most controversial of its products include

1) Agent Orange - deadly toxin used during the Vietnamese war. Linked to birth defects

2) Roundup - a herbicide more deadly than DDT. Linked to birth defects and reproduction failure

3) Zyklon B gas - co-developed this gas that was used to kill Jews during the Holocaust

the list goes on…..

In September 2016, X announced its plans to acquire Monsanto for $66 billion

To remove itself of Monsanto’s stigma, the new company will drop the Monsanto name.

X is the largest pharmaceutical company in Germany

X is

Merck

Fresenius Kabi

Boehringer Ingelheim

Bayer

What are GMPs?

The formal definition can be found on the website of any regulatory agency - But in very basic terms, GMPs are a set of practices that help to prevent errors, mix-ups and contamination in the manufacturing site to ensure that patients receive safe and effective medicinal products.

We all know that GMPs is the abbreviation for Good Manufacturing Practices..

Nowadays, however, we often hear the terms cGMP and GAMP

What do the “c” and “A” stand for

A = Aseptic (complete exclusion of harmful micro-organisms)

c = compliant

A = Anaerobic (absence of oxygen)

c =certified

A = Automated (self-explanatory)

c =current

A = Class - A (most stringent cleanroom classification for environmental pollutants)

c =common

Every year, the Harvard Business Review releases a list of the best-performing CEOs.

In 2014, Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon topped the list.

In both 2015 and 2016, the best-performing CEO was Lars Rebein Sørenson, a CEO of a pharma company

On 1st September 2016, Mr. Sørenson announced that he would be stepping down in January 2017.

Mr. Sørenson is the CEO of which pharma company?

Novo Nordisk (Denmark)

AstraZeneca (UK/Sweden)

Lundbeck (Denmark)

Meda (Sweden)

magine seeing your child suffering from malaria or pneumonia or tuberculosis.

But it's OK, you think, because you bought medicine to combat the disease from the pharmacy.

Now imagine what it must be like to see your child die nonetheless because the drugs you bought were fake.

That is the brutal reality of the multi-billion dollar global trade in counterfeit drugs.

To combat this scourge of counterfeit drugs, the global Pharma Industry introduced the Serialization project.

In this project, every individual saleable unit of pharmaceutical drugs or medical devices will have a unique identifier (a 2D data matrix code) that can be scanned at any point along the supply chain to verify the product’s authenticity.

All manufacturers of medicinal products must comply to the serialization standards if they want to sell their products.

In UK and most of the EU, the deadline to comply to this directive is

07 February 2017

08 February 2018

09 February 2019

10 February 2020

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