Sentences with phrase «on pharmaceutical research»

Despite billions spent on pharmaceutical research, diabetes rates continue to rise.

Unlike other Chinese contract research firms, PharmaBlock subscribes to multiple scientific journals that its staff scours for hints on pharmaceutical research trends, Dong says.

Not exact matches

But, as part of Beijing's «Made in China 2025» industry plan, President Xi Jinping identified the pharmaceutical sector as one to push, with the focus on innovation and homegrown research and development.

On a single - stock basis, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Wynn Resorts, Lam Research, and Helmerich & Payne were the biggest winners, each adding at least 4.1 %.

Her research focuses on innovation and strategy in high technology industries such as smartphones, video games, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, electric vehicles, and renewable energies.

The Belgian group specialises in the research of novel drugs based on nano - bodies found in the immune systems of llamas and alpacas, for which it partners with several of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies.

For example, MethylGene Inc. (TSX: MYG) is focusing on cancer treatment, biOasis Technologies Inc. (TSXV: BTI) is pursuing research on disorders of the central nervous system, and Cipher Pharmaceuticals Inc. (TSX: DND) is working on a treatment for acne - related conditions.

Citron Research's Andrew Left, who's gained notoriety for successful bets against companies such as Valeant Pharmaceuticals, on Monday posted a new bearish report on Shopify.

Many pharmaceutical companies continue to work on treatments for neurological diseases, as do many smaller biotech firms and academic medical research centers, and funding sources for these pursuits include private foundations as well as governments.

If you're looking for a viable healthcare company to add to your portfolio, you might want to do your research on Vanda Pharmaceuticals.

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — February 5, 2018 — FLX Bio, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of oral small molecule drugs to activate the immune system against cancer, today announced the appointment of senior pharmaceutical research and development executive Michael F. Giordano, M.D., to its Board of Directors.

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.

Research Triangle Park, NC — August 18, 2015 — Phoundry Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an RTP, North Carolina — based company focusing on the discovery of peptide therapeutics, announced today that it has successfully completed its first seed financing, putting it in position to advance its discovery and partnering plans.

In 2008, workers at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's New London and Groton (Connecticut) research and development campus raised the alarm: They were being replaced by Indian workers on H - 1B visas and forced to train their replacements.

As Poppe put it: «Valeant and the chief executive [Michael Pearson] had a good insight, which is that the U.S. pharmaceutical industry was spending a lot of money on [research and development] and not getting a great return on original research and development ideas.»

A March 28, 2018, research note by JMP Securities analyst Michael King indicated that at the recent International Symposium on Amyloidosis in Japan, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ALNY: NASDAQ) reported multiple sets of results of clinical trials, separately evaluating its investigational RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics patisiran and ALN - TTRsc02.

His current research focuses on the political economy of the pharmaceutical sector.

GW Pharmaceuticals hopes that its big - time spending on medical marijuana research could finally p...

Supporting research institutions and pharmaceutical companies through hands - on technology management.

And no one's doing much to improve the situation — a nation that spends $ 600 million developing new cosmetics and fragrances each year has exactly one pharmaceutical company still conducting research on improved methods of birth control.

He had gone to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina on a sabbatical from his medical practice and the family - owned, fourth - generation Angus beef farm in Ohio to research the pharmaceuticals.

Although the effects of company sponsors on the conclusions of pharmaceutical research have been extensively examined, little is known about the effects of industry sponsorship on nutrition research, even though large commercial entities are increasingly involved in global food and drink production.

JCGH receives funding into research on appetite regulation from the food and pharmaceutical sectors.

In 2007, its first full year on sale, it captured 36 percent of the organic formula market, with sales of more than $ 10 million, according to Kalorama Information, a pharmaceutical - industry research firm.

The FDA is suppose to monitor «research» on food and drugs and yet is largely funded by the pharmaceutical companies.

For businesses that rely on innovation, like the UK's pharmaceutical industry, intellectual property — and more specifically, patents — are a crucial driving force in fuelling research and development.

New York's Department of Health is sponsoring research on the use of a pharmaceutical - grade medical

Some midsized nonprofit organizations that hire biomedical researchers include SRI International (a nonprofit scientific research institute focused on innovative technologies) and the Institute for OneWorld Health, the world's first nonprofit pharmaceutical company, both based in California.

The pharmaceutical industry is a large and profitable sector that utterly depends on novel research, but the mergers and takeovers of recent years have resulted in job losses and recruitment freezes.

Big Data is having a greater impact on healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry, perhaps even more so than lab - based research is!

Funding is in the form of 11 million pounds from the Wellcome Trust, a London - based foundation that supports research on animal and human health, and contributions to individual institutions from companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Roche, AstraZeneca, Sanofi - Aventis, Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, and PTC Therapeutics.

Although the pharmaceutical industry, like the rest of the business world, has suffered a slowdown, the market research company Frost and Sullivan still expects spending on drug discovery to expand from US$ 19.6 billion in 2002 to US$ 25.6 billion by 2006, an annual growth rate of about 6 %.

Biomedical scientists on the East Coast of the United States found industry employment in regions like Boston or North Carolina's «Research Triangle,» or in the pharmaceutical corridor between New York and Philadelphia.

So, I took a job as a research scientist in the analytical lab of a smaller chemistry - driven, discovery - based pharmaceutical company located in Vancouver, B.C. With fewer than 100 employees and no products on the market, it couldn't have been further from the formal corporate work environment I was accustomed to at a multinational company.

«In the case of pharmaceuticals, the onus is on the pharmaceutical company to do the research with toxicity testing, randomized control trials and post-exposure observational studies,» Conry said.

In 2012, we reported on plans by pharmaceutical giant Hoffmann - La Roche to close its Nutley research center, which for more than 80 years provided thousands of jobs to generations of scientists and other local residents.

Lowe, a medical chemist by profession, provides daily commentary on drug discoveries, the pharmaceutical industry, and relevant research and news, especially in chemistry.

The BMJ also notes that three scientists who were involved in the preparation of a 2004 WHO document, WHO Guidelines on the Use of Vaccines and Antivirals during Influenza Pandemics, had received payments from pharmaceutical companies, including research funding, or consultancy or speaker fees.

«A greater impact will be the tug this exerts on the pharmaceutical companies as they weigh up where to make their clinical research investments,» he argued.

«The vaccine arena is just incredibly difficult; on the other hand, there have been huge strides with more effective drugs,» says Graham Allaway, a research scientist and founder of Panacos Pharmaceuticals.

Before the stream survey started in 1999, most research on pharmaceuticals and personal care products in streams had been done in Europe, says Herbert Buxton, one of the paper's co-authors and coordinator of the USGS's toxic substances hydrology program.

«I was attracted to the applied nature of his research on cationic peptides as pharmaceutical agents, so I contacted Bob through e-mail and told him [of] my interest in nuclear magnetic resonance and his research.»

A scientist from the NIH was one author of the paper describing the discovery, but Myriad Pharmaceuticals, which signed an exclusive licence with the University of Utah where the rest of the research was done, doesn't seem interested in sharing the profits if a breast cancer screening test is devised based on the discovery.

Now, Wyss Institute researchers led by Church have developed a new suite of such sensors, reported in Nucleic Acids Research journal, that not only increase the number of cellular «switches and levers» that scientists can use for complex genetic re-programming, but also respond to valuable products such as renewable plastics or costly pharmaceuticals and give microbes a voice to report on their own efficiency in making these products.

The work applies a data analysis model for the growth and maturation of biomedical research to characterize the progress of research on the pharmaceutical chemistry of oligonucleotide therapeutics, as well as the molecular targets, for their actions.

Studying how genes affect different drugs manufactured by different companies gives Poirier greater influence on future drug development, he feels, which would not be possible if he was employed at any one pharmaceutical research lab.

He works closely with clinical research groups and Exiqon's pharmaceutical partners to develop microRNA based diagnostics solutions based on LNA ™ technology.

Jessie Gruman, social psychologist and president, Center for the Advancement of Health, Washington, D.C.: There was real reluctance on the part of the pharmaceutical industry to do research until they were sure that it would be worthwhile financially.

The scarcity of complex intermediates in pharmaceutical research motivates the pursuit of reaction optimization protocols on submilligram scales.

«Physicians do use the database, but it's not yet common for them to use it for every prescription because it's still lacking a lot of information on pharmaceuticals,» said Lööf, chairman of the Drug Therapeutic Committee at the Centre for Clinical Research in Västerås, which works with local physicians to provide drug therapy strategies.