Sentences with phrase «major drug research»

It's unlikely she is doing any major drug research.

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On the other hand, Biogen has its roots in a Cambridge start - up founded in 1978 by MIT and Harvard scientists working in small, separate labs on then - radical theories, pursuing research dead ends and racking up debt until blockbuster drugs for treating leukemia, MS, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma brought major commercial success.

PERTH - based Medi - tech Research Limited may be on the brink of a major advance in cancer therapy with its hyaluronic acid technology for the delivery of anti-cancer drugs.

Major pharmaceuticals firms also engage in research and development, but tend to focus more on manufacturing and marketing an existing portfolio of drugs than the typical biotech firm.

Also at noon, the Marijuana Arrest Research Project will release a major report commissioned by the Drug Policy Alliance: «Unjust and Unconstitutional: 60,000 Jim Crow Marijuana Arrests in Mayor de Blasio's New York,» City Hall steps, Manhattan.

«Several major advances in recent years have been good news for multiple myeloma patients, but those new drugs only target terminally differentiated cancer cells and thus can only reduce the bulk of the tumor,» said Jamieson, who is also deputy director of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center, director of the CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic at UC San Diego and director of stem cell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health.

The new system, described in the March 21st issue of journal ChemBioChem, could have a major impact on peptide drug development, says Bradley Pentelute, an assistant professor of chemistry and leader of the research team.

In a major breakthrough several years ago, two research groups, the Zuker group at Columbia and the Bachmanov group at the Monell Center for Chemical Senses, each got around this problem by finding drugs that could temporarily block a certain type of sodium channel in mice's mouths.

Roughly 1200 of these are research labs, which are often housed at major academic centers or run by government agencies themselves, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Furthermore, there are no differences between the major political party affiliation groups on views about the use of animals in research, the safety of eating genetically modified (GM) foods and whether to allow access to experimental drug treatments before those treatments have been shown to be safe and effective.

And although the programme is set to award a major clinical - trial contract later this year, the drug being tested would treat not exotic, untreatable pathogens but ordinary influenza, a disease already heavily researched outside the Pentagon.

Thus, developing drugs that can increase the numbers of healthy beta cells is a major priority in diabetes research.

Professor Elkington highlights that more research is needed to investigate the hypothesis but if it is proved, the discovery could have major implications for the design of new vaccines and drug treatments.

Most smart drugs originated in the research and development laboratories of major drugs companies.

«At a time when funding is so tight across the government,» White House support for neuroscience research is a «major opportunity,» says Leshner, a former director of NIH's National Institute on Drug Abuse and acting director of the National Institute of Mental Health.

«Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health problem and identifying new drug targets and candidate drugs is a major priority,» said David S. Perlin, Executive Director and Professor at the Public Health Research Institute and Rutgers Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at the International Center for Public Health at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark.

Despite lowering low - density lipoprotein (LDL), known as «bad» cholesterol, while markedly increasing levels of high - density lipoprotein (HDL), or «good» cholesterol, a large clinical trial to investigate the cholesterol drug evacetrapib was discontinued early after a preliminary analysis showed it did not reduce rates of major adverse cardiovascular events, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

Ahead of us now is the major task of exploring the potential of new drug targets, so that hopefully we can prevent the number of people with untreatable infections from escalating further,» says Professor Anders Miki Bojesen, who coordinates the UC - Care research activities at the Department of Veterinary Clinical and Animal Sciences.

The team is conducting two major research programs dedicated to cell therapy on one hand and to pathological modeling and drug screening on the other hand.

His other major discovery in antiviral research is the development of a novel microorganism based assay for antiviral drugs called «MOBA.»

The arrival of several teams has diversified pathological indications in the context of two major research established at the outset, cell therapy and disease modeling paving the way for drug screening.

While laser treatments based on work pioneered at Joslin in the 1960s have helped to minimize this damage, injecting a drug called ranibizumab can be more effective, according to results from a major clinical study by the Diabetes Retinopathy Clinical Research Network (DRCR.net) announced today.

For the research, 112 individuals aged 60 years or older having major depression were given the drug escitalopram, a standard depression treatment, for about a month.

Just recently a major drug company got busted for «funding» research and deliberately keeping their involvement a secret from the publishers of the scientific journals the articles were being presented in.

He even got two large corporations to sponsor more research on the plant and by 1940s, wheatgrass powder began appearing in major drug stores across America and Canada.

Studies conducted by major medical research organizations and the Food and Drug Administration have found that 90 % of more than 100 drugs, both prescription and over-the-counter, were perfectly good to use even 15 years after the expiration date.

THURSDAY, Aug. 25, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Medications and illegal drugs are polluting streams in and around at least one major U.S. city, new research reveals.

Sara, the Research Assistant to a major drug company, needed to find out what happened to the last set of test data.

We support 10 major research thematic areas including — immunotherapy, stem cells, genomics, epigenetics, diagnostics, proteomics and computational biology, cancer imaging, drug development, supportive care and other key areas.

[6] The PhATE model that Moore praised in his op / ed was developed by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the major U.S. drug industry group.

In the field of life sciences, he has successfully litigated major cases involving recombinant DNA, monoclonal antibodies, fusion proteins, siRNAs, small molecule compounds, drug delivery, molecular diagnostics, research tool patents, and medical devices.

Lawsuit against B.C. government alleges Liberals received «major» political donations from pharmaceutical companies, halted drug - safety research,

Major interests include development of family - based interventions for adolescent drug use and delinquency, adherence and process research on family intervention models.

Despite the fact that Hispanic (eighth grade) adolescents have the highest lifetime drug - use prevalence rates across all major illicit drugs (except amphetamines)(Johnston, O'Malley, Bachman, & Schulenberg, 2005), and Hispanic high school students have the highest rates of unprotected sex at last intercourse (CDC - P, 2004b) compared to African American and non-Hispanic Whites, research on the efficacy of drug abuse and HIV prevention programs for Hispanics is lacking (González - Castro et al., 2003).