Sentences with phrase «by pharmaceutical research»

Six tissue types, they found, were significantly «undertargeted» by pharmaceutical research: male reproductive tissues, embryonic structures, skin, cartilage, bone and lymph.

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In 1998, he spun ImmGenics Pharmaceuticals out of research at UBC and raised $ 20 million before the firm was acquired by Abgenix Inc., a collaborator out of California.

But as if to advertise its success and thumb an unwrinkled nose at the government, in early November Allergan announced plans to build a US$ 12 - billion research facility in New Jersey, a state with a big pharmaceutical sector hurt by the recession — and home to lots of rich housewives.

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In 2008, workers at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's New London and Groton (Connecticut) research and development campus raised the alarm: They were being replaced by Indian workers on H - 1B visas and forced to train their replacements.

A March 28, 2018, research note by JMP Securities analyst Michael King indicated that at the recent International Symposium on Amyloidosis in Japan, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ALNY: NASDAQ) reported multiple sets of results of clinical trials, separately evaluating its investigational RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics patisiran and ALN - TTRsc02.

The global market for pharmaceutical contract manufacturing, contract research and contract packaging will grow from $ 136.4 billion in 2017 to $ 197.0 billion by 2022 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.6 % for the period of 2017 - 2022.

The FDA is suppose to monitor «research» on food and drugs and yet is largely funded by the pharmaceutical companies.

In an open letter to Theresa May, leading British scientists urged the home secretary to add an exemption for «research pharmaceuticals being used to develop new medicines or progress neuroscience research», so that new treatments and experiments were not brought to a halt by the bill.

Over the past year, Kaloyeros has been working with local officials, including those at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, to develop plans announced by Cuomo in December to invest $ 50 million in state funds to build and equip a pharmaceutical drug research and development center at the downtown medical campus.

According to a 2008 poll of U.S. residents conducted by Research!America, 94 % of Americans think universities and companies should work together to find new treatments, and 81 % think it's a good idea for pharmaceutical companies to fund research conducted in universities.

In medicine today, physician - scientists and basic scientists supplement support for their research by applying their expertise part time to develop and test commercial products.1 In my own field, vision science, university - based researchers obtain additional funding through clinical and electrophysiologic studies, pathology, imaging, biochemistry, and animal model development performed for pharmaceutical and instrument companies.

Although the pharmaceutical industry, like the rest of the business world, has suffered a slowdown, the market research company Frost and Sullivan still expects spending on drug discovery to expand from US$ 19.6 billion in 2002 to US$ 25.6 billion by 2006, an annual growth rate of about 6 %.

Frustrated by the lack of information available about industry research at the university, Gervais's first insight into pharmaceutical research came toward the end of his PhD studies at McGill University when he attended a seminar given by invited speaker Don Nicholson, a senior director and head of biology at Merck Frosst Canada [Merck Frosst is sponsor of Next Wave Canada].

Although networking opportunities with other scientists might be fewer in large pharmaceutical companies than they are in academia, the opportunity to publish postdoctoral research results is offered by some, but not all pharmaceutical companies.

The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Packard Award in Science and Engineering, Sanofi Pharmaceuticals, Foxconn Technology Group, and the Hertz Foundation.

In 2012, we reported on plans by pharmaceutical giant Hoffmann - La Roche to close its Nutley research center, which for more than 80 years provided thousands of jobs to generations of scientists and other local residents.

In addition to a socially responsible mission, other advantages of working in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry, as identified by survey takers, were: engaging work and being part of cutting - edge research and development; innovative, creative, and fast - paced work; and stability in difficult economic times, including generous salaries, benefits, and job security.

Lowe, a medical chemist by profession, provides daily commentary on drug discoveries, the pharmaceutical industry, and relevant research and news, especially in chemistry.

CER professionals work mainly at academic institutions, but increasingly they are employed by the pharmaceutical industry, clinical research organizations, and insurers, McDonald says.

If confirmed by clinical research, the data points to the possibility that early pharmaceutical intervention could make a significant difference in the development of the disease.

Now, Wyss Institute researchers led by Church have developed a new suite of such sensors, reported in Nucleic Acids Research journal, that not only increase the number of cellular «switches and levers» that scientists can use for complex genetic re-programming, but also respond to valuable products such as renewable plastics or costly pharmaceuticals and give microbes a voice to report on their own efficiency in making these products.

But hard - core allopathic medicine has its own hall of shame: profit - driven research that virtually ignores unpatentable plant - based medicines, antibiotic overkill that yields invulnerable super-pathogens, and — according to a lead article in the April 15, 1998 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association — an estimated 100,000 deaths a year in U.S. hospitals directly caused by adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs.

Studying how genes affect different drugs manufactured by different companies gives Poirier greater influence on future drug development, he feels, which would not be possible if he was employed at any one pharmaceutical research lab.

Other analysts have also noted that while research and development spending by pharmaceutical companies has increased dramatically, the number of new drug approvals has remained flat.»

The research by Hart and Acs examines companies in a much broader range of science - and technology - based industries that are important to the American economy (and to the employment prospects of scientifically and technically trained people), including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, optical equipment, industrial and agricultural chemicals, guidance and navigation systems, aeronautics and space, testing instruments, and much more.

«Because many broadly expressed genes that play key roles in essential cellular functions are under the control of cell - specific enhancers, the ability to affect enhancer function by knocking down eRNAs could potentially provide a new strategy for altering gene expression in vivo in a cell - specific manner,» said Glass, noting that in his research, anti-sense oligonucleotides were developed in conjunction with Isis Pharmaceuticals, which suppressed enhancer activity and reduced expression in nearby genes.

These studies are often hampered by incomplete health records, lack of uranium exposure data, and failure to detect residents who have moved, according to Johnnye Lewis, research professor in pharmaceutical sciences at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Prior research that studied the effect of free behavioral counseling offered by phone has shown improvement in smoking cessation rates when combined with pharmaceutical interventions.

To carry out this project, the CeBiTec research team cooperated with the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna (where the project was headed by Professor Dr. Nicole Borth), the Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib), and two pharmaceutical companies: Novartis (in Switzerland) and Pfizer (in the USA).

THE takeover of the British drugs company Wellcome by its larger rival Glaxo will create a «leaner and fitter» company, but the nation's research effort in pharmaceuticals will suffer, a group of MPs say this week.

The Clinical Research Forum, a consortium of leading academic health centers headed by Crowley, has asked pharmaceutical companies for a combined $ 10 million per year for 3 years (the minimum length of time the group expects NIH budget problems to persist), to create «bridging awards» for young investigators who have completed an NIH clinical research training grant, have narrowly missed receiving funding for an independent grant, and are employed at institutions that will match the funding and allow recipients to spend at least 75 % of their time on rResearch Forum, a consortium of leading academic health centers headed by Crowley, has asked pharmaceutical companies for a combined $ 10 million per year for 3 years (the minimum length of time the group expects NIH budget problems to persist), to create «bridging awards» for young investigators who have completed an NIH clinical research training grant, have narrowly missed receiving funding for an independent grant, and are employed at institutions that will match the funding and allow recipients to spend at least 75 % of their time on rresearch training grant, have narrowly missed receiving funding for an independent grant, and are employed at institutions that will match the funding and allow recipients to spend at least 75 % of their time on researchresearch.

The United Kingdom is stepping in to protect an ailing pharmaceutical research firm from attacks and intimidation by animal rights protestors.

A large majority of AAPS members employed outside of academia (68 percent) are involved with a variety of specialties, led by pharmaceutical development, biopharmaceutics / pharmacokinetics, and management / administration of research and development.

Christopher Lane, Miller Research Professor at Northwestern University, uses previously secret documents, many from the American Psychiatric Association archives, to support his argument that these decisions were marked by carelessness, pervasive influence from the pharmaceutical industry, academic politics and personal ambition.

Barry Schonwetter and colleagues at the Magainin Research Institute, a private laboratory run by the drugs company Magainin Pharmaceuticals in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, took cells from the surface of cows» tongues and used organic solvents to extract several chemicals.

In the scope of our spin - off Braingineering Technologies Sarl, we will be developing technologies by which we can provide the cultures for a fee to other labs or the pharmaceutical industry for their research.»

Adjoining properties have been reserved by the County for the Palm Beach County Research Village, future home of biotech and pharmaceutical organizations, commercial interests, and residences.

With Helmsley funding, CCFA's research consortium is now looking to identify potential therapies for development by pharmaceutical companies while also conducting a rigorous investigation of the effect of diet on the microbiome and how that might allow patients to alter the course of their illness without taking medications.

PHILADELPHIA --(April 19, 2018)-- The Wistar Institute and partners at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Inovio Pharmaceuticals, and GeneOne Life Science were recognized among the Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards by the Clinical Research Forum for their ground - breaking phase 1 DNA - based Zika vaccine research — the first trial of a Zika vaccine in humans, which proved safe and efResearch Achievement Awards by the Clinical Research Forum for their ground - breaking phase 1 DNA - based Zika vaccine research — the first trial of a Zika vaccine in humans, which proved safe and efResearch Forum for their ground - breaking phase 1 DNA - based Zika vaccine research — the first trial of a Zika vaccine in humans, which proved safe and efresearch — the first trial of a Zika vaccine in humans, which proved safe and effective.

Recent past honorees include Julian Adams of Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Alfred Goldberg of Harvard Medical School and Kenneth Anderson and Paul Richardson, both of Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, for the development of bortezomib, a drug that has altered the lives of hundreds of thousands of people with multiple myeloma; Alain Carpentier of Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou in Paris and Robert S. Langer of MIT for innovations in bioengineering; and the work of Harald zur Hausen and Lutz Gissmann of the German Cancer Research Center on human papillomavirus (HPV) and cancer of the cervix, which was recognized by the WAFP prior to their receiving the Nobel Prize.

After receiving a master degree in Biotechnology at the University of Verona (Italy) in 1998, I joined the neuroscience centre of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a large research - based pharmaceutical company based in Verona (Italy) and Harlow (UK), where I pioneered the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to describe the neural substrates modulated by pharmacological agents, a line of research that I also pursued to obtain a PhD degree in biomedical imaging with the University of Verona.

The first estrogen bioassay, (a bioassay is a measurement of the potency of a substance by its effect on living cells or tissues), is developed for use in pharmaceutical research.

In addition to conducting and funding research to develop more effective and safer therapies, NCI has thriving research programs in critically important areas like survivorship, delivery of care, primary prevention, screening, and quality of life — areas that are not traditionally supported by the private sector because they have limited commercial value or are not a good fit with traditional pharmaceutical and biotech business models.

Together, this translational program is developed within the National Cancer and Cognition Platform (CNO / Ligue Nationale contre le cancer), with the aim to collaborate in a structured way with French oncology groups, research teams as well as pharmaceutical industry, by providing preclinical models and guidance on standard operating procedures for ancillary or future studies in identified population at risk.

We collaborate with academic and corporate research and development organizations to characterize conditions mediated by senescent cells, and to identify pharmaceutical candidates that may control or ameliorate such conditions and increase healthspan.

Dr. Robert Urban of Johnson & Johnson will address how Organ - Chips are being used by the pharmaceutical industry today and the potential the technology holds to change the drug development process and reduce the use of animals in research.

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Research project ideas can be proposed by Member Institution PI's to Takeda Pharmaceuticals via submission of one or more concept proposals.

Funding: The research described in this manuscript was funded by High Point Pharmaceuticals LLC.