Stem cells will remain largely the province
of academic researchers next year.
Not exact matches
More than 60 people —
academic researchers, industry partners and interested members
of the community — joined the staff at the International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (BIOFAB), at a meeting on July 19 and 20 to discuss the facility's progress so far and its aims over the
next few years.
In the Science perspective, the
researchers discuss the gains they have made in understanding latency over the past five years and the challenges that remain as the team
of academic and industry investigators — from UNC, Duke University, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, the University
of California at San Diego, Emory University, MacroGenics, and other institutions — embark on the
next steps in HIV cure research.
«It's important for our
researchers that there is no gap» between the current program and the
next, says Teresa Riera Madurell, a former
academic from Spain and one
of the lead negotiators for the European Parliament.
Closer links between
academic and commercial
researchers is also the aim
of a new Bio Innovation Centre (BIOZ) which will be completed by the end
of next year.
The National Academies
of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) in Washington, D.C., yesterday held the first public meeting
of a new committee
of academic and industry
researchers, tasked with forecasting what biotechnologies will emerge in the
next 5 to 10 years, and what new types
of risk they might pose to the environment or human health.
The St. Jude Graduate School
of Biomedical Sciences will train the
next generation
of academic researchers in a one -
of - a-kind interdisciplinary environment — one that brings together diverse scientific disciplines to work at the interface between basic and clinical research.
For the
next five years, legal
researcher Yvonne Peters, CCD, and Dr. Michael J. Prince, University
of Victoria, Principal Investigators for this strategic initiative, will lead a team
of disability community and
academic researchers dedicated to bringing forward recommendations and plans for alleviating the disproportionate poverty
of Canadians with disabilities.