Sentences with phrase «in emerging therapies»
The dog has already played an important role in emerging therapies for inherited blindness in humans and similarities in disease phenotype and eye structure and function between dog and man, together with the increasingly sophisticated genetic tools that are available for the dog, mean that the dog is likely to play an ever increasing role in both our understanding of the normal functioning of the eye and in our ability to treat inherited eye disorders.
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Companies are also finding that using M&A to acquire R&D capabilities is an effective way to build positions in emerging technologies such as gene therapy and biosimilars.
Kite is one of the leading players in the emerging field of CAR T, and is competing with rivals Novartis AG, Juno Therapeutics Inc and Bluebird Bio Inc in a race to get the first approved therapy.
The research shows that millions more around the world should be taking pills or benefiting from therapy — just one person in 27 in emerging - market countries get proper treatment.
The researchers found that seventeen (43 \ %) had been misdiagnosed by their referring physicians as being in PVS; thirteen (33 \ %) slowly emerged from the vegetative condition during rehabilitation therapy; and only ten (25 \ %) remained in the vegetative state.
Soon I was an emerging expert on Early Intervention, an Illinois state program of low - cost, in - home therapy services for kids age 0 - 3.
Although parents in recent decades have been almost excruciatingly concerned that older sibs not feel replaced by younger ones, the issues continue to emerge in therapy with adults.
A new study in Journal of Neurophysiology reports that peripheral nerve stimulation therapy can reverse SCI - associated nerve deterioration, potentially improving the benefits of current and emerging rehabilitation treatments.
Even if positive results emerge from these trials, ACT will still face major challenges in getting an ES - cell - based therapy approved for wider use.
Early in the 20th century, radiation therapy was also an emerging cancer treatment, and the nation's preeminent cancer pathologist, James Ewing, staunchly favored treating patients with this promising new method.
Despite being curable with multidrug therapy, leprosy still persists in many developing countries, with more than 200,000 new cases every year and increasing drug - resistant strains of the leprosy bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae, emerging.
This is important because it makes it possible to model almost any autoimmune disease, evaluate new drug therapies, and even identify novel targets in the emerging area of cancer immunotherapies.
Over the past few years, researchers have seen resistance against artemisinin derivatives — which are combined with other drugs in so - called artemisinin - based combination therapies — emerge in Cambodia, in an area along the border with Thailand.
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)-- induced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an emerging malignancy in the developed world; however, mechanisms that contribute to its formation are largely unknown, and targeted therapy is currently not available.
Still, by identifying the human hairless gene as an important master switch in regulating cell death in a hair follicle — a discovery that could lead to gene therapies for unwanted hair growth — Christiano emerged as a new star in the field, and a glamorous one.
The technical advances emerging from gene therapy have fueled the larger fields of cell and immune therapy, where DNA, immune molecules, and viruses are all elements to be manipulated, in concert or one at a time.
The article in the journal Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids titled «As Technologies for Nucleotide Therapeutics Mature, Products Emerge» describes the analysis of more than 60,000 research publications related to oligonucleotide therapies.
«There is no obvious breakthrough therapy emerging in the coming years.
Among the interesting topics covered in Pathways are: the changing role of the patient in the total health equation and the ways in which decentralized information is affecting their expectations and demands; the dearth of pipeline products among international pharmaceutical companies against a backdrop of increased research and development spending; the dynamics of emerging markets and their rising demand for therapies in chronic disease; the value of drugs and biotechnology solutions within the context of global economic realities.
This webinar is the third in a series focusing on the cancer pathways that support tumor development, the emerging research in identifying and targeting these pathways, and innovations in the development of increasingly effective cancer therapy options.
This webinar is the second in a series (see Part 1 here) focusing on the cancer pathways that support tumor development, the emerging research in identifying and targeting these pathways, and innovations in the development of increasingly effective cancer therapy options.
Thus, finding new targets for drugs already in use to treat other diseases, in other words drug repurposing, is an emerging area in developing anti-cancer therapies.
For these reasons, in this issue's special report, «Calming a Child's Mind,» we highlight emerging therapies for the three most prevalent childhood disorders — anxiety, behavior or conduct disorder, and attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Tom Solomon, director of the United Kingdom's Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging Infections based at the University of Liverpool, says he is also considering a trial of the therapy in humans.
«As with many therapies in medicine today, evidence is emerging that a more personalized approach is likely the best approach when determining how much vitamin D is optimal for an individual.
Stem and progenitor cell (PC) therapy that promotes neoangiogenesis [formation of blood vessels] is an emerging treatment modality in PAD,» according to background information in the article.
Starting in 2010, cancer immunotherapy has emerged as the «new» breakthrough approach to cancer therapy but this is actually the fruit of decades of labor and CRI has been steadfastly behind that research from the beginning.»
This year's Action Award honorees include global leaders in the fight to end cancer as we know it; a world leader in advancing the emerging field of regenerative medicine and game - changing cell therapy medical treatments; the president of a non-profit group focused on developing cures for chronic, debilitating and fatal diseases; a sickle cell and stem cell advocate and founder / science administrator of the Axis Advocacy; and the founding director of the Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Japan's Kyoto University.
This specificity in treatment fits with an emerging approach in cancer treatment nationwide, known as personalized medicine, in which the therapies for each patient are selected based on the genes altered in their tumors.
Other Institutions also belong to the Campus: the University of Milan; Cogentech, an IFOM - IEO consortium committed to developing leading genomic technologies (nanotechnologies, proteomics, bioinformatics, disease models), the European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM), that organizes training in emerging sectors of Biomedicine, offering the first European PhDs in Molecular Medicine, Medical Nanotechnologies, Foundations of the Life Sciences and their Ethical Consequences; Genextra, a biotech company whose mission is to develop new therapies against cancer and aging - related disease; Biopolo, a not for profit company involved in the technological transfer of basic research to the productive system.
This newly restructured committee will aid the PMC in advancing the era of personalized medicine, specifically by critically evaluating emerging applications of science and technology to patient care for risk assessment, therapy and prevention.
ViaCyte, a private company that has emerged as a leader in the field of regenerative medicine, is currently focused on developing a novel cell therapy for the treatment of diabetes.
«Thanks to improvements in the understanding of AML biology, a multiplicity of so - called targeted therapies and therapies based on differential pathophysiology of leukemic stem cells compared with normal counterparts have emerged,» noted Richard M. Stone, MD, clinical director of the Adult Leukemia Program at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and colleagues, writing in a review for the ASCO 2017 Educational Book.
Cell therapy is an emerging pillar in healthcare with the potential to provide curative solutions to a wide range of indications.
NYC Neuromodulation 2017 will focus on technologies and mechanism for advanced brain stimulation in areas that include transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), high - definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD - tDCS), electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), deep brain stimulation (DBS), and other emerging areas.
Muthumani's research interest is in the area of immune approaches to emerging infectious diseases and immune therapy approaches for the treatment cancer.
Dr. Bosarge was honored by the Regenerative Medicine Foundation (RMF) at its annual Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Action Awards for his efforts in advancing the emerging field of regenerative medicine and game - changing cell therapy medical treatments.
As part of the internationally recognized University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCCCC), we participate in national clinical trials testing new and emerging therapies.
The U-M cystic fibrosis program is the largest program of its kind in the state, accredited by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation with leadership in numerous research studies investigating emerging therapies.
AAV gene therapy vectors are emerging as the gene transfer vehicle with high potential for use in the CNS as they transduce post mitotic cells that mediate the sustained, long term gene expression required in chronic progressive diseases.
Progress in the evolving field of immunotherapy and the emerging field of viral - based gene therapy herald a promising new era in the field of liver cancer.
My work is in the emerging field called: Targeted Cancer Therapy (TCT).
It is also the first in an emerging class of therapies called «checkpoint blockade,» which enhance the immune system's ability to attack cancer by interfering with immunological checkpoints that slow or stop immune cell activation and proliferation in the presence of tumors or chronic viral infection.
«We are encouraged by the preclinical data emerging on SRK - 015, including the effects upon fast - twitch muscle fibers that are particularly relevant for SMA as well as its selectivity profile, which may be very important when considering chronic therapy in children,» said Karen S. Chen, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of the SMA Foundation and a co-author of the study being presented at the Cure SMA Annual Conference.
2:15 PM From emerging new therapies in children to defining and implementing healthcare needs in adults: Cradle to grave management in Achondroplasia.
Recent spread of artemisinin resistance and emerging piperaquine resistance in Southeast Asia show that artemisinin combination therapy, such as dihydroartemisinin - piperaquine, are losing clinical effectiveness, prompting investigation of drug resistance mechanisms and development of strategies to surmount emerging anti-malarial resistance.
Background: As the prevalence of artemisinin - resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria increases in the Greater Mekong subregion, emerging resistance to partner drugs in artemisinin combination therapies seriously threatens global efforts to treat and eliminate this disease.
Myelosuppression is a well - established side effect of current AML therapies, with prolonged events leading to an increased risk of infections and death.44 Consequently, therapies that preferentially kill leukemic cells over normal bone marrow cells are urgently required, and the overexpression of CD123 on AML leukemic stem cells and blasts compared with normal hematopoietic cells contributes to its attractiveness as a therapeutic target in this disease.6, 45 However, severe myelosuppression and myeloablation have emerged for some investigational CD123 - targeted treatment modalities.
In fact, some emerging therapies for depression use electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve to trigger changes in the brain.&raquIn fact, some emerging therapies for depression use electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve to trigger changes in the brain.&raquin the brain.»
«In the Womens Health Initiative (WHI) trial, when women got seven years of estrogen alone, there was no increased risk of breast cancer, but after four to five years on combined hormone therapy, the risk emerges,» she says.