Sentences with phrase «pharmaceutical firms use»

Other occupations are using A.I. in tandem with people: Lawyers use software that can analyze cases and search for relevant past rulings; pharmaceutical firms use algorithms to aid in drug discovery.

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If you haven't followed this story, you'll remember Shkreli from his fame two years ago, when his biotech firm, Turing Pharmaceuticals, acquired the patent to a drug used to treat malaria, cancer and aids, and jacked up the retail price by more than 5,000 percent.

The company is currently working with a major pharmaceutical firm to print lung airways for use in testing medications to combat airway fibrosis, a condition that kills 100,000 Americans a year.

The list is topped by pharmaceutical maker Novo Nordisk, Brazil's Natura Cosmeticos, Norwegian energy company Statoil, the Danish biotech firm Novozymes, and ASML Holding, a Dutch manufacturer of photolithography machines used in the semiconductor industry.

To do so, he plans a $ 650 million package of tax breaks, grants and private investment to create a life sciences cluster that could be used by pharmaceutical firms and others in the health care field.

The experiment was designed by pharmaceutical firm Novartis, which will use the data to design drugs to combat the disease.

Meanwhile, a report from the McKinsey Global Institute, a consulting firm, says that businesses spanning virtually all sectors — from technology and social networking to pharmaceuticals and health care — are using information gleaned from large data sets to help them operate more smoothly or to provide better products or services.

The strategy was facilitated by the creation in the late 1990s of a drug procurement consortium dubbed the Green Light Committee, organized by the WHO, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, several NGOs and pharmaceutical firms like Eli Lilly that still manufactured the rarely - used antibiotics such as capreomycin and cycloserine needed to treat MDR - TB.

But as bioethicist Carl Elliott shows in White Coat, Black Hat, Bernays's strategy guides the tactics used by pharmaceutical firms today.

However, with few exceptions, the stem cell and regenerative medicine industry has remained inadequately capitalized to carry out large - scale clinical trials independently, and major pharmaceutical firms have tended to show more interest in the use of hiPSCs as a source of large, pure populations of specific somatic cells for use in drug compound screening and toxicology tests, than they have in therapeutic uses of stem cells and their derivatives.

Giant pharmaceutical firms have most notoriously used patents to price anti-HIV drugs out of the reach of poor people in the global South.

Ms. Werkema recently joined the firm's pharmaceutical litigation group, where she represents clients and their families adversely affected by Granuflo, a product used in dialysis that has caused countless deaths due to misleading and inadequate use instructions provided to health care professionals by its manufacturer.

In R (Eisai Ltd) v NICE & Ors the court ruled that NICE had acted unfairly in refusing to allow pharmaceutical firms Eisai and Pfizer access to a «fully executable» version of the economic model it had used when deciding that the drug Aricept should not be prescribed on the NHS to patients with mild Alzheimer's disease.

A Utah - based pharmaceutical benefits management firm used patient data to solicit business for its owner, a drug store (Kiplingers, February 2000).

A position as a General Sales Representative with a pharmaceutical firm which will use chemistry background and ability to work on a self - directed basis in managing a market territory.