OSI Pharmaceuticals

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OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

• 700 Employees Worldwide
• Three Business Units
• Oncology
• Flagship product Tarceva
• Diabetes
• On-going clinical trials
• Eye Disease
• Flagship product Macugen

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Boulder Site

• Clinical Research
• Biostatistics and Data Management
• In-Vivo Pharmacology
• Project Management
• G A primarily support Oncology
• Core Services Group Support all three business
  units
• Regulatory Pathology
• Drug Safety Pharmacokinetics
• Quality Assurance Toxicology

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OSIs Top 12 Challenges

• Candidate Pools
• 1 Candidates with specialized backgrounds
  difficult to find locally
• 2 Trailing spouses find limited opportunities
  locally
• 3 The What If syndrome
• 4 Visa's quickly depleted

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More Challenges

• Candidate Backgrounds
• 5 Often unable to hire newly graduated
  candidates because OJT experience needed
• 6 Outplaced SAS/IT professional wages higher
  than skills offered
• 7 Competition from national biotechs
• Salaries, Perks and Geography

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And More

• 8 Students lack practical lab skills
• 9 Entry level candidates with vet technician
  backgrounds very limited
• 10 Students lack adequate communication and
  interpersonal skills
• 11 GLP exposure needed at entry level
• 12 Career counseling not broad enough at early
  stages in college

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Real World 101

• If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you
  get a boss.
• Television is NOT real life. In real life people
  actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to
  jobs.

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Looking for Talented People
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Challenging Skill Sets

• MD Oncologist
• Board certified
• Minimum 5 years clinical research experience
• 3 years in clinical development activities in
  Pharma company
• IND/NDA experience
• Interactions with Regulatory Agencies
• Experience Managing Clinical Trials

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Looking for the Best

• Students with common sense
• Practical exposure to laboratory techniques
• assays
• procedures
• equipment used in the pharmaceutical industry
• Keeping good records
• Knowledge of graphing and analysis
• Communication Skills

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Intern History

• Approximately 20 interns in the last 4 years
• Three hired full-time
• Project Management
• Medical Writing
• Biopharmaceutics
• One long-term intern
• Started in Data Management
• Now pursuing Masters in Biostatistics

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Thinking Outside The Box

• Bring your professor and/or teacher to work
• Add community college vet tech programs to
  university curriculum
• Expedite timing of curriculum changes
• Offer Clinical Research Associate
  Program/Certification in academic setting
• Recruit new businesses to the area (contract
  labs, other large Biotech/Pharmaceutical
  companies)

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Ideas for Change

• Are there curriculum models in existence that
  meet industry needs?
• Can internships be created that minimize
  integration to industry faster?
• Marry intern feedback to curriculum
• Industry assist with career counseling by
  creating reference tool/library
• Industry representatives collaborate on GLP issues

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