Scientists at pharmaceutical companies, the National Cancer Institute, and laboratories at Hopkins and other universities are investigating whether drugs that inhibit HIF - 1 may be useful for cancer therapy.
In his role as researcher, he developed a potential drug to treat different types of immune diseases and was able to accompany the molecule through the next stages?something most
scientists at pharmaceutical companies are not able to do.
On the industry side, Lilly, headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, has a program that encourages
scientists at the pharmaceutical company to collaborate with university researchers.
Not exact matches
The scale that
scientists use to describe a chili's heat was developed in 1912 by Wilbur Scoville, a chemist
at Parke - Davis
pharmaceutical company in Detroit.
After 14 years in the United States, as a student and as a
scientist at a big
pharmaceutical company, medicinal chemist Kamil Paruch (pictured
at top) decided to return to his native Czech Republic.
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.
This year like all others,
scientists want to work
at companies that keep innovation front and center, and the top 20 employers in 2015 include those biotechnology and
pharmaceutical firms on the leading edge of these advances.
«With the headcount constraints in today's economic climate, industry needs to hire leaders as well as technically excellent
scientists,» says Scott Reines, newly retired vice president of
pharmaceutical research and development
at Johnson & Johnson, a
pharmaceutical company based in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
With the proper clearance, bench
scientists at the NIH should have the right «to do what every other
scientist has the right to do: consult for a science advisory committee or a
pharmaceutical company or a biotech
company, partly because that's become part of the culture and partly because it's very much a two - way exchange,» Alberts says.
He's consulting with Boehringer Ingelheim, a
pharmaceutical company headquartered in Germany, where
scientists this fall began offering an experimental drug to people
at very high risk of psychosis who are eligible based on the severity of their symptoms.
The biotechnology and
pharmaceutical industry usually pops up first in many people's minds, with
companies in that sector continuing to hire
scientists at both the B.S. and M.S. levels.
But I think it's a disservice to gloss over the topic, because in reality it can be a fairly large hurdle for a successful industry transition,» said Andrew Spencer, a research
scientist at Alvine
Pharmaceuticals who has experience
at biotech
companies and small start - ups.
These include government or private nonprofit funders of basic research, such as the National Institutes of Health in the United States or the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom; academic
scientists; multinational
pharmaceutical firms and smaller biotech
companies; and,
at the end of the line, government regulatory agencies responsible for drug approval.
Physicians and
scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine
at Mount Sinai often interact with
pharmaceutical, device and biotechnology
companies to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs.
C. Glenn Begley, who spent a decade in charge of global cancer research
at the biotech giant Amgen, recently dispatched 100 Amgen
scientists to replicate 53 landmark experiments in cancer — the kind of experiments that lead
pharmaceutical companies to sink millions of dollars to turn the results into a drug.
Today, CCP4 has around 2 million lines of code, dozens of active contributors and thousands of users worldwide, including expert crystallographers, academic researchers interested in solving structures, and
scientists doing drug development
at pharmaceutical companies.
The Center would represent a hub to connect
scientists and physicians
at universities, research institutions, medical centers, and
pharmaceutical companies.
He has also served as Director for Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy for the Donald Monk Cancer Research Foundation; he is a partner
at Veterinary Research Associates, LLC, a
company focused on development and implementation of diagnostics for veterinary medicine and a founder /
scientist at ApopLogic
Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a biotechnology
company focused on development of cancer therapeutics.