Sentences with phrase «discovery efforts for»

New York, NY — January 31, 2006 — The Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation announced the completion of a new licensing agreement that will facilitate access to intellectual property fundamental to drug discovery efforts for the disease.

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Health care companies have also continued to expand their research and development efforts, resulting in innovative discoveries as well as cures and treatments for many diseases.

Wine brands are using humor as a vehicle for education, but Gallo has discovered that any effort that encourages wine drinkers to explore, experiment and embark on a journey of discovery will bring the industry closer to reducing fear among budding oenophiles.

The ACCC's effort to sever an alliance of interest between Coles and a popular platform for petrol price discovery has taken a huge leap forward.

When Ricardo said, «I make a daily effort to make a culinary discovery here in México, not abroad,» I couldn't help but ask him: «Are you saying that French cuisine, for example, is not important for you?»

The discovery of novel health effects of bioactive compounds will provide the scientific basis for future efforts to use biotechnology to modify / fortify foods and food components as a means to improve public health.

(While this was also arguably the original goal of academies / universities centuries ago, the modern university model has become a vocational school of sorts — preparing students for success in future endeavors, rather than seeking discovery, enlightenment, and progress through the efforts of its constituents.

These discoveries were made by oncologist Dr. Michael Kühn from the Department of Internal Medicine III, which is a part of the University Center for Tumor Diseases (UCT) at the Mainz University Medical Center, in a collaborative effort with researchers from the Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York and Harvard University in Boston.

Academic efforts in drug discovery also exist at other institutions, such as Baylor University's Center for Drug Discovery, Harvard University's Laboratory for Drug Discovery in Neurodegeneration, and many others.

This discovery is important for maternal health and for our efforts to develop preventive measures to minimize miscarriages, which are a big health problem for women in the affected areas of Africa.»

The effort has already had one practical result: the discovery of two new genes for resistance to a race of wheat stem rust to which there is virtually no resistance in wheat.

This discovery serves as a stepping - stone for the team's ongoing effort to theoretically understand 3D NEC in quantum materials, and to experimentally probe 3D NEC in different ways.

Their discovery of the LDL receptor and their efforts to understand how the protein functioned are credited with laying the foundation for the development of the blockbuster class of cholesterol - lowering statin drugs.

Companies in the partnership supply compound libraries and drug discovery expertise to the effort, while academic partners contribute knowledge about the disease and facilities for screens and assays.

Chemogenomics is a new concept where drug design and screening is conducted at the genome level for selective drug discovery effort against one target among a large family of related proteins / receptors.

Toxicology, the traditional tests for adverse drug effects, continues to drive early drug discovery efforts.

Attrition of novel drug candidates due to cardiovascular liabilities (including proarrhythmic risk due to delayed ventricular repolarization and Torsades - de-Pointes arrhythmia) remains a hurdle for drug discovery efforts, a hurdle which may be mitigated by the use of human induced pluripotent stem - cell derived (hiPSC)- cardiomyocytes.

Topics ranged from the political (Vienna - based astrophysicict Mazlan Othman, who may have the best business card in the world as she is the director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, discussed her duties and called for an international protocol on dealing with the possible detection of life in outer space) to the philosophical (theologian Ted Peters of University of California, Berkeley, discussed the significance of the discovery of extra-terrestrial life for the world's religions) to the positively apocalyptic (astrophysicist Frank Drake, the original champion of the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence efforts, pondered whether a technologically advanced civilization would inevitably use its power to annihilate itself.).

This year, Hummels will serve as one of 46 NASA Student Ambassadors, selected for their outreach efforts and for their ability to generate public attention for NASA's space discoveries during the International Year of Astronomy.

According to the researchers the methodology they employed for this study allowed them to make an important discovery without investing more money in genotyping or more effort to recruit volunteers.

Already the National Science Foundation, through its Planetary Biodiversity Inventories for select groups of organisms has shown that intense, team efforts can speed the discovery and classification of unknown organisms, says meeting organizer Quentin Wheeler from Arizona State.

The discovery, the product of a multiyear effort to provide a high - quality full genome map of the oil palm plant and to scour the sequence for genes of importance to both science and industry, has major implications for agriculture and the environment.

The question now, experts said, is what the discovery of the bottoms - up ice formation means for efforts to understand ice sheet behavior and to investigate past climate by extracting ice cores.

Now, translational research has emerged as a field in its own right, aided in large part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research, a collection of initiatives that prioritize efforts to shepherd biomedical discoveries into clinical application.

«Techniques like this one that enable controlled, remote C - H activation are just beginning to be adopted by industry, and should provide a boost to drug discovery and development efforts for many years to come,» Yu said.

The convergence of several factors explains the trend: cheaper genetic sequencing technologies, the discovery of new oncogenes (genes that can cause a normal cell to become cancerous), a new generation of computers and bioinformatics that can analyze vast amounts of data, and a multibillion - dollar effort by researchers inside and outside the pharma industry to develop targeted drugs and companion diagnostics for cancer.

A $ 1.7 million drug discovery effort to identify molecular and genetic risk factors and new therapeutic targets for cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease, based on data from the Religious Order Study and the Rush Memory and Aging Project.

«This discovery highlights the need for increased study throughout the tropics, for example Manu NP and its surrounding areas have been well studied, but despite these efforts, new species are being continuously discovered,» points out first author Alex Shepack, a PhD student in the laboratory of co-author Dr Alessandro Catenazzi at Southern Illinois University.

Long - term monitoring efforts that supported this discovery are vital as we continue to monitor changes in the Arctic and develop tools to support adaptation planning for both wildlife and people.»

This mechanism includes potential targets for next - generation drug discovery efforts to treat metabolic diseases including diabetes and obesity.

This mechanism includes potential targets for next - generation drug discovery efforts to treat met... more

A co-founder of Tenaya Therapeutics, he was also chosen for his efforts to bring his discoveries to market to fight the world's leading cause of death — heart disease.

In order to most rapidly realize the value of genetics for human health, deCODE is currently partnering with life sciences companies to accelerate their target discovery, validation, and prioritization efforts, yielding improved patient stratification for clinical trials and essential companion diagnostics.

What's next: Important follow - on studies include using these initial discoveries to design targeted efforts for understanding the specific signaling pathways under EGFR transactivation.

The consolidation of these efforts in an independent initiative will allow faculty from the CMI to lead a focused investigation in small molecule drug discovery for multiple therapeutic applications.

Such information will be valuable for the discovery of the genetic causes of human diseases and will aid efforts to identify new drug targets.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Sept. 15, 2008 — Assay Designs and the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation (SMAF) are very pleased to announce a collaborative agreement for development of reagents and assays for SMN (Survival Motor Neuron) protein to expedite drug discovery and development efforts for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the leading genetic cause of mortality in infants and toddlers.

Our curated catalog of planet candidates provides a starting point for future efforts to confirm and characterize K2 discoveries.

We aim to accelerate the pace and success rate of mRNA discovery research efforts for both our ventures and our partners.

This effort, which will enhance deCODE's proprietary gene and drug target discovery work and may provide genetic markers for additional diagnostic development, will leverage Illumina's Sentrix ® HumanHap BeadChips; Infinium ™ assay and LIMS (laboratory information management system); as well as analysis and visualization tools from Illumina's BeadStudio software.

Housed in Switch's Las Vegas SUPERNAP data center and available to UNLV researchers through SUPERNAP's unique connectivity network, «Cherry Creek» received upgrades in 2015, giving UNLV and its research partners access to world - class computing power and acting as a catalyst for scientific discovery, the modernization of applications, and regional economic development efforts.

The RBL, one of 11 in the country, serves as a valuable shared resource to others in academic, not - for - profit and private sectors for BSL - 3 training, basic research and translational discovery efforts.

The new discovery advances efforts to find new and effective treatments for heart failure.

«This funding will help provide important new opportunities to translate basic discoveries and leading - edge technologies from UC San Diego's research laboratories into needed therapies for patients — an effort being spearheaded by our new Drug Discovery Institute,» said Palmer Taylor, PhD, associate vice chancellor for Health Sciences and dean of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

With the ability to integrate these data sets in a tightly linked, highly annotated manner, Labmatrix has the kind of flexibility, security and data access control today's scientists require for information management of biomarker discovery, next generation biobanking, pre-clinical and clinical studies and translational research efforts.

He is Director of the Joint Center for Translational Medicine, a collaborative effort joining Caltech and UCLA in a program translating basic science discoveries into clinical realities.

«It took our team of researchers and collaborators more than 15 years of diligent effort to unravel the genetic cause of FOP that had been shrouded in mystery for so long,» says Fred Kaplan, MD, the Isaac & Rose Nassau Professor of Orthopaedic Molecular Medicine, of the 2006 discovery of the mutation that causes FOP.

Another effort is to identify genes involved in human development, known as DGAP (Developmental Genome Anatomy Project), which uses naturally occurring human chromosomal rearrangements in association with major congenital anomalies as the biological reagents for gene discovery.

Another reason why EPA started with estrogen was that high - throughput in vitro assays were already developed either commercially for use in drug discovery by the pharmaceutical industry or through an interagency government effort called Toxicology Testing in the 21st Century, or Tox21.

Housed in Switch's Las Vegas SUPERNAP data center and available to UNLV researchers through SUPERNAP's unique connectivity network, the «Cherry Creek» supercomputer gives the university and its research partners access to world - class computing power and will act as a catalyst for scientific discovery, the modernization of applications, and regional economic development efforts.