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NN history and competitors
100

This phrase is great when a topic comes up that members in a meeting will feel more comfortable talking about outside the meeting

What is :"Let’s take it off-line"

100

This statistical principle, often achieved by randomly assigning participants to treatment groups, to help minimizing selection bias and confounding.


What is randomization?

100

Disease that co-founder Dr. Marie Krogh suffered from

What is: Type 2 Diabetes

200

Taking a high level overview of something and digging into the detail behind it

What is: "Double-clicking"

200

A placebo procedure used to blind participants and assess the real effect of an operative intervention.


What is a sham surgery?

200

First employee in Novo Nordisk who won the Nobel prize in physiology

Who is: August Krogh, (1920)

300

The phrase pharma uses when a trial result is borderline significant but you don't want to disappoint


What is "a positive trend"?

300

A U.S. FDA pathway allowing earlier approval based on a surrogate endpoint reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit, conditional on confirmatory trials.


What is Accelerated Approval?

300

First company to commercialise insulin in 1923 

What is: Eli Lilly

400

Word describing the potential forgone profit from a missed opportunity—the result of choosing one alternative over another. 

What is the "Opportunity Cost"?

400

A transferable US regulatory incentive that speeds up authority review of a new drug application and can be sold to other sponsors.


What is a priority review voucher?

400

The pharma giant that gate‑crashed the hemophilia party with Hemlibra, gene therapy bets, and diagnostic firepower.

Who is Roche?

500

Corporate shorthand for keeping visibility on milestones so leadership can spot slippage and act early.



What is: "keeping line of sight"

500

One trial, one disease, multiple different drugs or approaches tested in separate groups under a single protocol

What is an umbrella trial?

500

1936, Hagedorn and his colleague Norman Jensen discovered that the effect of insulin could be prolonged by adding a protein to it called ...?

What is: protamine