Q. CMR International pharmaceutical R&D factbook
I have been searching the online journals and I cannot find the CMR international pharmaceutical R&D factbook. I am looking for any of the previous versions. I need to find attrition of compounds in Phase I-III clinical trials and associated costs
Answer
The library does not own the book you cite below. However, we do have Parexel's Bio/pharmaceutical R&D Statistical Sourcebook. I scanned the chapter on Success Rates (and by implication failure rates). It is a pdf and you will need to rotate the pages. I am also sending an article separately about Big Pharma redirecting resources from early R&D from the Pink Sheet. You might want to search the Pink Sheet (under Quick Links on the library web page, select Databases A-Z and then select "Pink Sheet" from the list. I searched "attrition AND phase i."