Sentences with phrase «of drug discovery»

He also uses advanced genetic, molecular, and cellular techniques that are integral components of drug discovery processes.

By studying compounds which past research has shown already have antibacterial properties, there is scope for a potential fast - track through the challenging early stages of drug discovery.

In many ways the world of drug discovery sits at the edge of enormous changes.

Often, though, the financial challenge of drug discovery leads academic scientists to collaborate with industry.

The expansion of genetic diversity in the earliest phases of drug discovery may permit the identification of new cancer targets.

Issues with data handling will also play a crucial role in the future of drug discovery.

But regulatory bodies and a growing number of drug discovery companies want more predictive scientific approaches in place to lower the chance of failure in clinical trials.

It can be used to study a particular chemical compound of interest in great depth, or in a broader screen at the starting point of a drug discovery effort.

While helping make the entire industry more productive, these new programs add yet another element to the continuing education of drug discovery researchers.

The golden age of drug discovery is over — at least for now.

The diversity of the drug discovery process demands an equally diverse collection of employees.

The world of drug discovery runs at a blazing pace inside of biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

Instead, companies are more focused on maintaining productivity while keeping the cost of drug discovery and development down.

TLC is creating a pipeline of new therapies to treat blood cancers using less traditional forms of drug discovery and development.

Brunner, D., Balci, F., and Ludvig, E. A. Comparative psychology and the grand challenge of drug discovery in psychiatry and neurodegeneration, Behav Processes 2011 89, 187 - 195

Navire Pharma's lead compounds were discovered and developed by the IACS team led by Phil Jones, Ph.D., executive director and head of drug discovery at IACS, together with Benjamin G. Neel, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at New York University (NYU).

John Babiak, senior vice president of drug discovery technologies at PTC Therapeutics in South Plainfield, New Jersey, which is developing and testing PTC124, shrugs off the NIH work.

Today, job prospects within computational biology — also known as bioinformatics — seem strong and appear to be growing, buoyed by pharmaceutical and biotech industries looking to take advantage of reams of genomics data and usher in a new era of drug discovery.

Dr. Joyal has over 20 years of drug discovery experience with expertise in cell and molecular biology, particularly in the areas of receptor biology, cell signaling pathways, and assay development.

Julie's work involves several aspects of early stages of drug discovery for tuberculosis.

However, the recent National Institutes of Health Roadmap, which identifies priority areas for future NIH funding and support, suggests that many aspects of the drug discovery process will enter the academic arena.

My job is to lead the in vivo pharmacology aspect of a drug discovery project and to develop novel technology to facilitate progress.

So, you call and ask the receptionist to speak with «your manager of drug discovery, John Smith, please.»

Devens of Bayer Healthcare says, «One of the new models of drug discovery involves collaborative efforts between little companies, big companies, and university scientists.»

The process of drug discovery involves the identification of candidates, synthesis, characterization, screening, and assays for therapeutic efficacy.

The ActinoDrug staff is going to grow soon, and motivated young molecular biologists are highly welcome to join us for the further development of drug discovery technologies.

The High Throughput Screening (HTS) activity is part of the drug discovery process, and consists in selecting among thousands of molecules the ones that could have a pharmaceutical use.

Dr. Kleiman is a neurobiologist with more than a decade of drug discovery experience.

The Residential School on Medicinal Chemistry and Biology in Drug Discovery is designed for chemists and biologists who are interested in broadening their understanding of the basic principles of drug discovery and early development.

Investment by the SMA Foundation has resulted in a large and diverse portfolio of drug discovery assets that are available at minimal or no cost to the biomedical research community.

«I think we're at the start of an exciting journey of drug discovery for a new class of antithrombotic therapies.»

Prior to TCG, Dr. Kang worked at FibroGen in the project management of drug discovery and development programs and in corporate strategy.

The company is based around novel compounds, including NAV - 847, discovered and developed by the cross-functional drug discovery team within IACS led by Philip Jones, Ph.D., executive director and head of drug discovery at IACS.

The Minoryx team is made up of a group of drug discovery and development experts with several decades of experience in biotech and pharma.

These companies were early developers of drug discovery tools, and were part of an industry wide acquisition roll - up that resulted in Accelrys.

This includes a stem cell research centre, a network of drug discovery institutes and a # 20 million global clinical development fund dedicated to supporting Phase I and II clinical trials; and a # 2 million collaboration between University of Cambridge and University College London that will use donated cells from people with Alzheimer's to test potential new treatments

The tour officially began that evening with a team exercise put on by Dr. David Alker, manager of the Discovery Staffing Group at Pfizer, who took us through a simulation of the drug discovery process.

A Career in Drug Discovery and Development Wolfgang Sadée, professor of pharmacology at Ohio State University, offers an overview of drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry and outlines the range of opportunities available to students who are interested in moving into this dynamic field.

Like many tales of drug discovery, the statin story starts in a petri dish.

«We are very vigorous in choosing our leaders of drug discovery; all of the leaders are outstanding, well published scientists in their own right.

Many companies have made a strategic migration away from the tried - and - true (but also too long and costly) pathways of drug discovery toward novel approaches that promise unprecedented speed and precision.

The journal provides cutting - edge research including results from animal models that are likely to apply to patients, studies in human tissue that provide new information about therapies or disease, and innovative reports of drug discovery and development.

Instead of reducing the opportunities in this field, the increasing specificity of the drug discovery business keeps spawning new opportunities in academia and industry.

«With the availability of more and more data analytics in health care, it's the right time to use data to direct the investments of drug discovery and biomedical research for the common good,» said the study's first author, Lixia Yao, PhD, assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

«As far as we can judge, there are not too many centres around the world like this where you bring a lot of different types of drug discovery activities under a single roof,» he tells Next Wave Canada.

To investigate the role of anandamide in social contact, UCI's Daniele Piomelli — the Louise Turner Arnold Chair in the Neurosciences and founding director of the drug discovery & development department at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, Italy — and his colleagues measured levels of this marijuana - like neurotransmitter in mice that had been either isolated or allowed to interact.

A large number of these companies are clustered in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Saskatoon and provide a significant number of drug discovery jobs in those areas.

The arena of drug discovery training in Canada could be set to change in the coming years.

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.

He believes that a great deal of drug discovery research, and hence informal training in the area, is performed at academic institutions located in Canada's bioscience clusters, and their spin - off companies.