Global Project Management and Drug Safety
Global Project Management (GPM) includes several functions that focus on our portfolio of R&D projects: project leadership, project management operations, and research alliances (including Discovery alliances and Development alliances). GPM owns the CCPF process, facilitating the project teams and governance committees across all therapeutic areas to develop projects to their full potential and providing objective strategic direction, planning, and operational expertise. GPM manages each project with clear vision along the complexity of the development pathway, while building team ownership of each functional role in the integrated plan.
Drug Safety (DS) is made up of a diverse array of scientists whose primary function is to define potential risk to human subjects of serious adverse effects from novel pharmaceutical agents. By partnering closely with scientists in Discovery, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Early Clinical Research and Experimental Medicine, scientists in this area generate data on toxicology in preclinical species to enable the safe and rapid exploration of efficacy and safety of new therapeutic agents in human clinical trials. The data generated by this group form a key part of communications to global regulatory agencies in support of world-wide drug development activities.