A recent experiment
by pharmaceutical scientist Mami Noda of Kyushu University and neurologist Bruce Ransom of the University of Washington points to a solution.
Job responsibilities held
by pharmaceutical scientists outside academia include 3 percent who said they are owners or partners, 10 percent executives, 41 percent directors or managers, 19 percent supervisors or coordinators, 19 percent technical contributors, and 10 percent staff or something else.
Not exact matches
The scale that
scientists use to describe a chili's heat was developed in 1912
by Wilbur Scoville, a chemist at Parke - Davis
pharmaceutical company in Detroit.
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.
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.
One of the vaccines, developed
by scientists at the
pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), helped protect monkeys from Ebola infection 10 months after vaccination.
A new broad range antibiotic, developed jointly
by scientists at The Rockefeller University and Astex
Pharmaceuticals, has been found to kill a wide range of bacteria, including drug - resistant Staphylococcus (MRSA) bacteria that do not respond to traditional drugs.
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.
Since then,
scientists in academia and the
pharmaceutical industry have created thousands of pleuromutilin derivatives
by a process known as semisynthesis, which involves chemically modifying pleuromutilin itself.
The
scientists say their light - responsive circuit could help control the flux of metabolic pathways in vats of microbes used to produce
pharmaceuticals or industrial chemicals,
by turning on and off in response to red, green, and blue light — a veritable bacterial disco.
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.
My mother worked for nearly 20 years as a
scientist at DuPont, which later became DuPont Merck, which then became DuPont
Pharmaceuticals, whose campus then became a ghost town when it was bought
by Bristol - Myers Squibb.
I've seen this time and again: for example, the
scientist who takes a job in quality control for a
pharmaceutical company and is surprised
by how fascinating the field is.
They also complain that a 2004 WHO pandemic - preparedness document did not reveal that some of its authors had been paid for work
by pharmaceutical companies — although the
scientists had declared their competing interests elsewhere.
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.
Scientists in biotech or
pharmaceutical companies might feel motivated
by their role in bringing to society drugs that would never be invented otherwise, says Kaeberlein.
Typically,
pharmaceutical scientists start the discovery process
by «screening» large libraries of chemical compounds in search of one or a few that might treat disease.
Delving deeper, Gopalkrishnan Saroja Seethapathy, a graduate student in
pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Oslo, and colleagues randomly chose 3300 papers
by Indian first authors from 350 journals flagged as predatory
by Jeffrey Beall, a library
scientist at the University of Colorado in Denver.
It was initially called ISIS - 443139, but lately it's been going
by IONIS - HTTRx or just HTTRx — a combination of HTT, the abbreviation
scientists use for the huntingtin gene, and Rx, a symbol used in the
pharmaceutical industry meaning a treatment or prescription.
But new research
by Rochester
scientists points to potential applications in the synthesis of
pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, and agro-chemicals.
The dream for
scientists, physicians and
pharmaceutical companies alike is to bring more people with SMA effectively into this last category
by helping affected children make the most of the SMN2 genes they already have.
Its «Grey Matters» lecture series (co-sponsored
by the UCSD Division of Biological Sciences, Amylin
Pharmaceuticals and Gemini Sciences Inc.) features leading
scientists in brain - mind studies.
Many
pharmaceutical scientists study the absorption of drugs
by cultivating intestinal cells into a thin membrane layer that has all the features of a real intestinal wall, including various nutrient transport channels and a brush border.
Unless, that is,
scientists take the time (despite fears that their funding might be withdrawn
by the
pharmaceutical industry) to study the facts.
Most
scientists involved in biomedical research are not funded
by pharmaceutical companies but
by government agencies or private foundations seeking cures for particular diseases.
If such actions took place in any other field, for example
pharmaceutical research and the testing of new medicines, the
scientists would not only be branded unethical but would most likely be stripped of their positions
by an oil or tobacco company and went on to «prove» that their products were harmless would be ridiculed and ignored.
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