Astraea Medical Consulting provides in-depth medical affairs strategy development and realization of tactical deliverables across all stages of the pharmaceutical product life cycle.
About
Astraea Medical Consulting Ltd was established in April 2020 by Dr Sue Lacey, PhD to provide in-depth strategic and operational scientific and medical affairs consultancy services across all stages of the product life-cycle to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical education agency and other healthcare providers.
Sue is a highly knowledgable, commercially astute senior Medical Affairs leader with 20+ years pharmaceutical industry experience at country, regional and global levels. She has a passion for addressing unmet medical needs through the development and clinical practice realization of innovative medicines.
Her 10 years of Medical Affairs experience at Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals established an appreciation of the FMCG approach to drug development and product launches, in particular how the deep understanding of patient and clinician insights can enhance strategies to optimize patient outcomes.
More recently, Sue had the opportunity to lead the Novartis Global Medical Affairs team for one of the first rare disease gene therapy product launches outside the US. The experience of navigating this unique, first in therapy area product through regulatory and reimbursement approvals and the opportunity to work with medical experts to translate and replicate results in clinical trials into clinical practice provided her with unique appreciation into this exponentially growing area of medicine.
The desire to be able to apply her Medical Affairs experiences and insights to a broader range of therapy areas in partnership with different stakeholders was the motivation behind the move to work independently and establish Astraea Medical Consulting.
As for the origin of the company name…
The most impactful moment of Sue’s career was when she met one of the very first patients to receive gene therapy in a clinical study for their inherited retina disease. He recalled, with a huge smile, how when he flew home after his treatment he looked out of the plane window and realised for the first time ever, he was able to see the stars.
In Greek mythology, Astraea means ‘starry night’ or ‘star maiden’. Representing precision and justice, according to myth the goddess Astraea will return from the heavens bringing an end to human suffering. These aspirational characteristics, coupled with Sue’s experience working with gene therapy to allow patients destined for blindness the chance to ‘see the stars’, led to the name ‘Astraea Medical Consulting‘.
Services
| * Strategic Medical Affairs Blueprints: de novo development or enhancement of existing plans and associated tactical deliverables |
| * Identification of unmet medical needs: understanding of current and future clinical environments including patient journey mapping, insight acquisition |
| * Core claim document generation: robust, evidence based product positioning and competitor differentiating claims |
| * Data Generation: prospective studies and retrospective analyses to address knowledge gaps; trial/analytic design, recruitment enhancement strategies, data interpretation, visualisation and dissemination, creation of audience tailored medical educational materials |
| * Medical Expert/Professional Society/Patient Advocate Engagement: partnership strategy development, mapping, individual action plan creation |
| * Medical Advisory Boards: virtual & face to face meetings, agenda development, expert selection and engagement, meeting facilitation, report production and subsequent insight based strategic augmentation |
| * Scientific Messaging Workshops/SWOT analyses |
| * Publication/Medical Education Strategy: including CME activities |
| * Medical Writing Services: manuscripts, abstracts, podium presentations, posters, MSL/Medical Education slide decks, value dossiers |
| * HEOR and reimbursement initiatives: additional analyses design for pricing purposes; payer messaging and medical representation at technology appraisals/negotiations |
| * Compliance: knowledge of compliance regulations across multiple geographies |
Broad therapy area experience including:
| * Cardiology | * Rheumatology |
| * Endocrinology | * Female Sexual Dysfunction |
| * Auto-immunity | * Dermatology |
| * Asthma | * Rare Diseases |
| * Renal | * Electrophysiology |
| * Ophthalmology | * Gene Therapy |
Contact
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