Sentences with phrase «drug discovery does»

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This year that newsworthy moment, in my view, had nothing to do with the latest Phase III drug trial, pharma merger, or biotech discovery.

Ligand isn't like a traditional biotech stock in that it doesn't spend years or decades bringing drugs from the discovery stage to pharmacy shelves, which is an exceptionally risky boom - or - bust model.

Looking at sixty - seven recent drug discovery projects based on preclinical cancer biology research, they found that in more than 75 percent of cases the published data did not match up with their in - house attempts to replicate.

Strange as it may appear, though, our Christian clerics, principally the apocalyptic or doomsday prophesiers, it also turns out, do not receive divinely inspired visions that attempt to provide practical answers to drug discoveries in fighting our progressively escalating disease burden, and for better or for worse pragmatic solutions that should otherwise help us reverse our mournful state of relative technological, scientific and industrial backwardness.

Quite a few chose to do something different, but those who wanted to stay working in the drug discovery arena have been able to find work, generally speaking.

A Foot in the Door Next Wave's Canada editor Lesley McKarney describes how training opportunities in drug discovery in Canada do exist — you just have to know where to look.

Although the small company I worked for did not conduct animal testing on site, my work in drug discovery and providing analytical support to pharmacology directly linked me to the pharmacokinetic and toxicology screening tests.

«Usually people say that drug discovery and development can not happen strictly in the academic environment, that discovery should be done in academia, and development done elsewhere, such as in industry,» said Radu.

Professor Gamper — who is also a visiting professor at Hebei Medical University — believes this discovery could open the door to new drugs that don't have the negative side effects currently associated with stronger painkillers.

Although SB 247464 doesn't work with human cells, the discovery will spur the pharmaceutical industry's search for protein - mimicking drugs, says Mark Goldsmith, who studies cytokine receptors at the University of California, San Francisco.

As scientists, they don't have the background to handle those duties,» says Rebecca Rone, who is director of the M.S. program in drug discovery and development at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

«We are very strong in drug discovery, but we don't have a strong local pharmaceutical industry,» she says.

While the pool of drug discovery positions in Canada slowly grows, so too does the competition to hire scientists with drug discovery experience and training.

«Our model provides a new platform for drug discovery and the study of bone formation that did not exist before,» he said.

I believe if you can do it in drug discovery and development, you can show the power of AI anywhere.»

For Poirier, the key message was that R&D groups have a mandate of innovation and discovery, whereas the marketing division's mandate is to do what is necessary to sell the drug and provide profits for the company shareholders.

«And although I was also naive about some of the [drug] discovery stuff and the regulatory complexities, I was even more naive about how tough it is to do delivery.»

Although you can do early - stage drug discovery at a university, the infrastructure and money simply isn't there to see a new drug all the way through the process.

«Industry jobs do tend to prize creativity, but within the confines of a predefined goal,» says Paul M. Matthews, vice president for imaging and head of the GlaxoSmithKline Clinical Imaging Centre in Hammersmith Hospital within the company's drug discovery division.

«I would like to point out, however — concludes Alimonti — that our discovery does not imply that cancer patients must undergo a strict dietary regime, which might in fact hurt them: a reduction of fat in cancer cells can only be obtained by blocking the cancer cells metabolism through specific drugs.»

This speeds up the drug discovery process by allowing scientists to quickly rule out treatments that do not work.

After all, Beall admits, he didn't know much about drug discovery.

The field has experienced monumental challenges developing new and effective drug therapies, not the least of which was the discovery that — until recently - clinical trials were conducted where up to 30 % of participants did not have the Alzheimer's disease - related brain change targeted by the experimental drug.

«People do this for drug discovery — pharmaceutical companies and biomedical researchers will try different kinds of molecules and see which one has the best reaction.»

«What Apple did for music, I'd like to do for the discovery and distribution of prescription drugs,» Cronin said in a 2012 TED Talk.

«You've got groups like the NIH — they're really the only organizations that are willing to do the early stage drug discovery,» Kinch said.

«We started with a big question: how do scientific discoveries lay the foundation for successful development of new drugs?»

«We are thrilled to establish this partnership with Roche, with the goal of changing the way drug discovery and development is done — from early discovery, all the way to the clinic,» said Geraldine A. Hamilton, President and Chief Scientific Officer of Emulate.

I don't buy any speculative stocks — no junior mining companies, drug discovery companies etc..

«But the lead author of the study... says that he is not convinced that it is just the changing climate... «It could be partly due to this chaotic rainfall, but personally I don't think it can explain such a dramatic decline in mosquitoes, to the extent we can say that the malaria mosquitoes are almost eradicated in these communities... «What we should consider is that there may be a disease among the mosquitoes, a fungi or a virus, or they're may have been some environmental changes in the communities that have resulted in a drop in the number of mosquitoes»... The research team also found anecdotal evidence that their discovery was not an isolated case... «Other scientists are saying they can't test their drugs because there are no children left with malaria.»»

Pharmaceutical research scientist with 34 years of experience in the area of oncology, twenty - five of them doing drug discovery research in the Cancer Department at Merck Research Labs.

Our therapy methods do not rely on the use of drugs but rather concentrates on techniques for self - discovery and feelings of inner joy.