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Client Info:
Campaign Name: Inhalation Sciences AB – Academy environment /
air pollution/ aeorosol research
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Campaign Info (Target Market Criteria):
1) Type Of Industry (ex. legal, education, etc.) You can select the SIC codes from here:
http://siccode.com/en/siccode/list/directory/
Company Name
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Greetings to GK/Receptionist:
Good Morning/Afternoon,
I'm Allen with Inhalation Sciences. I was wondering if you can help me, who
should I speak with when it comes to
working with environmental research with aerosol and/ or air
pollution?
Hi! My name is Allen with Inhalation Sciences. I understand that you are the
person who is involved in
working with environmental research with aerosol and/ or air
pollution?
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generate aerosol and are very accurate in delivering it for in vitro or in vivo
studies.
The company founder, Per Gerde, has a long experience in academy, having also
worked at the prestigious Lovelace respiratory research institute in New Mexico,
USA.
If it is, we’d like to introduce ourselves and our instruments! We have as customers
King’s College in UK, the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, Vienna university.
Probing Questions:
(Please insert a couple of questions that will help us discover more of their
current environment AND also to keep the conversation going. About 5
questions would be ideal, but not all 5 will be used during the call, I will be
rotating the questions depending on the situation)
The questions below are for Pharma and academic pharma customers and
also CROs (Contract Research Organizations) working with pharma.
The academic sector would have the accuracy/precision of our instruments
and the novelty of some instruments providing them an opportunity to
publish interesting/novel data.
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Are you frustrated sometimes with the inaccuracy of the current
methods available for in vitro cell exposure or for in vivo exposures?
(PreciseInhale and in vivo modules, XposeALI)?
(This shifts the focus from talking about us from the Pitch to learning more
about the prospect, which is very important. This gives the prospect the
feeling that they are important, which every prospect wants).
Closing:
If they really say no, they can check us out on the newly re-made
website: www.inhalation.se.
(Please note that we can have several Closing statements, I will rotate and
determine which one will be effective)
Schedule an Appointment:
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Possibly Mon-Wed, afternoon CET, i.e. morning EST, until lunch time
EST.
Also Thu-Fri ok, but preferably Mon-Wed.
Verify Information:
1. Contact Name
2. Company Name
3. Phone number (and extension)
4. Job Title
5. Email Address (important)
6. Date and Time of the Appointment
Thank you for your time today and we are looking forward to talking to you
soon.
Handling Objections:
1) What do you do? What does your company provide?
Inhalation Sciences is an innovative labtech company providing
both equipment and research services for aerosol and inhalation
studies. By generating early reliable pharmacokinetic data we de-
risk your drug development projects.
For the academic research, Inhalation Sciences offers state-of-the-
art aerosol exposure options to generate accurate data with unique
settings.
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4) Questions they are asking you and you don’t know the answer.
That’s an excellent question, what I’m doing right now is taking
note of all your questions and I’ll forward this to Inhalation
Sciences’s HQ, and
o Mikael Mikko, Product Manager
o Per Gerde, Chief Scientific Officer and company founder
o Paolo Raffaelli, Chief Commercial Officer
He/they can answer this for you during your appointment with
him/them.
6) We have passed the preclinical stage and we are on clinical trials (trying
the potential drug on people).
COMMENT: This is a realistic objection from small companies. They
would most likely use our services if we catch them at the right time,
since once the preclinical phase has passed, they would focus on
clinical trials on people.
Well, in any case I would like to set up a meeting, you may get some
questions back from the FDA/EMA (European Medicine Agency) once
you submit the regulatory package on the preclinical data, and given
the unique precision of Inhalation Sciences’ method, it is good to have
a presentation now to have them in the back of your mind. My
colleagues will be more than happy to provide you with ½ hour
overview, no worries.
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o We perform in vivo studies on one animal at the time by choice,
having an unparalleled precision on how much substance is
delivered: we take into account even the animal breathing rate
to reach the target dose with precision. This impossible to
achieved with an inhalation tower used in toxicology studies
since there is no possibility to monitor how much each animal is
breathing and getting.
8) Nomenclature
Preclinical studies are made up of an in vitro phase and an in vivo one.
In vitro usually comes first, and the tests on the drug candidate are
performed in a lab (for example DissolvIt has an artificial membrane to test
the dissolution of an inhaled drug) or by exposing cell cultures to the inhaled
drug (XposeALI).
In vivo contemplates the exposure of living subjects (rodents like rats and
mice but also other species) to the drug being tested to observe several
effects.
We are specialized in PK studies, in vitro and in vivo.
To help you understand some of the terms most used by our target
customers, see below.
Preclinical phase
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PD: Pharmaco Dynamics= what the drug does to the body, what is
therapeutic effect of the drug on the body, for example the asthma
symptoms reduction, the effect on cancer cells etc.
Inhalation: the process of breathing in a substance into the lungs.
Usually inhaled drugs are inhaled through the mouth, hence the
expression: OIDP for Orally Inhaled Drug Products. There are also
nasal sprays which are inhaled through the nose.
Aerosol: a cloud of suspended particles: could be tiny solid particles or
liquid droplets (nebulization).
Inhaler: therapeutic device used to breathe in a drug, through the
mouth; through the nose it would be a nasal spray.
Nebulizer: a tool used to nebulize a solution or a suspension (the
difference is in the particle size) into a mist that can be breathed.
Generics: Once a drug goes off patent, companies try to make an
equivalent of that drug, a similar molecule, to sell it at a fraction of
the price of the original drug, which is called the reference substance,
while the generic candidate drug being studied is called the “test”
substance.
Biologics: Drugs made up of larger molecule, i.e. proteins or enzymes.
Usual drugs are traditionally made of small molecules.
Small molecules: see Biologics above.
Nanoparticles: they are tiny molecules with a spherical shape that
may contain a drug to be delivered, for example to the lungs.
API: Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient: the molecule that has the
therapeutic effect.
Eccipients: molecules that are added to the API to facilitate the
delivery of the drug, usually eccipients are sugar molecules.