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Many of you are probably aware of the different features currently available on BioNation. Starting today, we've made changes that allow you greater flexibility in managing your BioNation contacts. We released an enhancement that allows you to invite people that are now registered yet. This feature is available on your personal page and your contacts page. It's an extremely simple 1-step process (or 2-step if more customization is required!):

1 - Enter the names and emails of the people you would like to invite:

2 - (Optional) Edit the invitation text, if needed:

And then push the red button!
This feature works best if someone is not registered yet on BioNation and you know his/her email. Obviously, you can still invite people who are already registered on BioNation - but it is simplier to do it from their profile page!

Please feel free to leave us your feedback in the comments section. And Enjoy!

Don't miss the last published article about Pricing and Reimbursement challenges.

Lifescience-online in order to provide you with relevant comments on trendy topics related to the pharmaceutical industry asks world-class experts to give a comprehensive and pertinent overview of the sectors in which they are working.

Mark Connolly, Managing Director of Global Market Access Solutions (GMAS), is a specialist in pricing strategies, reimbursement needs and development of market access. Its article "Pricing and Reimbursement challenges for new Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices" will bring you a deep analysis of the dynamic environment of pricing and reimbursement. Within the pharmaceutical industry, setting the appropriate price for a product is a crucial and perilous process. Misevaluation can have devastating effects on product success and viability. Adaptation to this changing environment is a major challenge for the pharmaceutical and medical devices companies.
To have more information you can now meet the author on Bionation.

Looking forward to reading your comments!

We are ecstatic to see how intensively you are using our jobs portal!
We recently poured a tremendous amount of time and effort into enhancing our jobs database.
Among others:

• You can now benefit from daily news concerning the human ressources sector, including press releases with top-management changes, company restructuration, etc ...
• We have finally made jobs bookmarking simplier: you can save specific jobs or job searches easily
• A poll allows you to give your opinion on current events! and remember: every vote counts! ;-)

Lifescience-online jobs is updated every week. It gathers jobs from all around the world and brings you, under a single roof, a comprehensive database with categorized job offers that best match you needs.

As we still are on an early version of the jobs portal, our team is currently preparing a bunch of cool new features which will be released in the forthcoming months.
Link: Lifescience Jobs Portal
Stay tuned!

Today, we are psyched to announce the release of BioNation, the official social platform of the life sciences community. With thousands of already registered Pharma / Biotech / Academic experts, BioNation allows you to meet your future business partners and stay in contact with colleagues from all continents. But BioNation is not just another social network. Far from that. It's a social platform tightly integrated to our intelligence databases, and it contains features targeting the needs of pharma / biotech profesionnals.

For the first time ever, you do not need to wait months for conferences to meet business people. Any partnering opportunity is at your reach, a click away.

And there is more: it lets you maximize your business within the marketplace by publishing your business opportunities! That's another free feature! Opportunities are the prime choice to enhance and show off your business

• Are you looking for a license, a partner to co-develop your drug or in-license it ?
• Are you presenting your services during a conference or a road show ?
• You want people to be able to contact you seamlessy?

By joining today the BioNation community you will become part of the woldwide family of life sciences professionals!

Not already a member? Do yourself a favour and sign up for free to BioNation now !
During the next weeks we will highlight some new features of BioNation to help you get the best from the platform.

This is the day that webmasters of any lifescience website have been waiting for! lifescience-online.com goes live with RSS!

What is RSS? This is an increasingly popular online tool (or format) turning a morass of disparate information sources into an automatically generated and neatly organized index of the latest articles, news and postings! This feature, requested since the early days of Lifescience-online, is now available.

Web publishers use RSS to easily create and distribute news feeds that include links, headlines, and summaries. CNN, CNET News and now Lifescience-online are among the many sites that deliver updated online content via RSS.

For RSS newsbies
One of the simplest RSS readers is the Dogpile Search Tool, available free from www.dogpile.com. The downloadable toolbar can be installed directly in Windows Internet Explorer and, as the name suggests, includes a search tool as well as an RSS reader!

What kind of content does Lifescience-online syndicate via RSS?
Today at Lifescience-online.com, you can actually get focused RSS streams for over 5.500 biotech/pharma companies and over 14.000 drugs. The RSS service, located here, is highly customizable and can bring you virtually any sort of news targeting your needs. Let's see some examples:

• News for swiss companies
• News for Alzheimer's disease drugs
• Partnership/Deal news in Oncology

Use also keywords to narrow down news according to a specific word of relevance to you.

We're also offering thumbnails of related photos for stories in our RSS feeds, giving you an even richer news experience. (Note: your RSS reader may not support the viewing of thumbnails!)

To webmasters
Obviously, we would be delighted if you would like to add our information to your website. It is of great quality and flexibility. See it yourself:

• Health organizations and associations: follow the advancement of research! select the indication that best matches your area. Select news by therapeutic area->more feeds and find your inication
• Business websites: get financial news, partnerships & deals from the “news by industry Segment”.
• Press agencies: find where the buzz is! Ask for the most popular and the latest stories.
• Investors: follow the companies where you have invested securities in and get feeds for the company of your choice.

Your feedback for this new, free service will be highly appreciated!

Go to rss.lifescience-online.com.