In the past, when we've talked to various pharmaceutical companies about one program or another in our lab, they often want to wait until it's been developed into a preliminary screen, and would rather
work with biotech companies for collaborations — they've often been the intermediate window before a pharmaceutical company would step in.
In order to separate the 200 - some compounds in breast milk so they could be analyzed individually, Lebrilla
worked with a biotech company to develop a microchip that acts like a filter for the machine, allowing different compounds through at different speeds.
Not exact matches
One
biotech firm, Ossianix, is already hard at
work developing a VNAR - based drug - delivery system, in collaboration
with the global pharmaceutical
company Lundbeck, which focuses on drugs for brain disorders.
The
company just announced a lucrative deal
with the
biotech firm Genetech, and says many similar deals are in the
works.
Kite Pharma, Juno Therapeutics, and Bluebird Bio are among a growing group of
biotech companies working with CAR - T.
The Kamens claim the main thing that distinguishes their foundation from other brain tumor foundations is their focus on pediatric brain cancer specifically, as well as their close ties
with pharmaceutical and
biotech companies working in the fields of immunotherapy and target gene therapy.
However, if there's a
company with Nike - like return potential in the
works, I believe it to be budding
biotech stock Ligand Pharmaceuticals.
The latest round of START - UP participants was announced Monday in Buffalo,
with companies that range from software developers for the legal profession and a
biotech firm
working on genetic markers for autism to a developer of brain injury drugs.
Along
with introducing me to the US, my postdoc gave me a first taste of what it may be like to
work within a
biotech company.
And in 2015, she cofounded the
biotech company eGenesis
with her mentor, legendary Harvard bioengineer George Church,
with whom she's also
worked on trying to resurrect the Ice Age wooly mammoth through genetic legerdemain.
Although the bulk of the commercial manufacturing uses cultures of bacteria, such as Escherichia coli or Chinese hamster ovary cells, a few
biotech companies are trying to produce therapeutic proteins in the milk of transgenic mammals (such as GTC Biotherapeutics, which is using goats; PPL Therapeutics, which is using sheep; and BioProtein Technologies, which is
working with rabbits), transgenic chicken eggs (such as Avigenics or Vivalis), or even in transgenic crops (such as ProdiGene or Meristem Therapeutics); but it is early days for these «pharming» methods.
Many pharmaceutical and
biotech companies work with freelancers — independent business owners who contract directly
with companies — but the staffing agency model is much more common, especially among less experienced workers.
The uncertain outcome hasn't scared the pharmaceutical and
biotech companies she
works with away from their plans for CRISPR, she said.
Already scientists at Human Genome Sciences in Rockville, Maryland — a
biotech company affiliated
with Venter's research institute — have begun
working on a more effective vaccine against Haemophilus.
Another indication of how relevant the
biotech industry has become here is the recent joint creation by UBC and BCIT of a bachelor of science degree in biotechnology, which includes co-op
work terms
with biotech companies.
At the same time, I have the flexibility to
work with other
biotech companies that are trying to break into the Canadian market
with complementary products.
He predicts that the small but potent research community of universities and
biotech companies centered in St. Louis and Kansas City will benefit from passage of the amendment — which prevents lawmakers from barring
work on embryonic stem cells while criminalizing cloning
with the goal of reproduction — as will patients.
From that chat has arisen plans for the MSD Wellcome Trust Hilleman Laboratories — named after a vaccine scientist who
worked at Merck — a non-profit research institute that it will act like a nimble
biotech company with «dynamic decision - making» in the words of Ted Bianco, director of technology transfer at the Wellcome Trust.
«Our collaboration
with VentiRx is part of a broader programmatic effort to partner
with top
biotech and pharmaceutical
companies to develop novel combinations of treatments that may
work better together than each would alone,» said Adam Kolom, managing director of CRI's venture fund.
Consequently, the safest investment in the ESC field may be «something where you're an enabler of the technology» by providing the raw tools and ingredients for ESC research, says Steve Brozak, an analyst
with WBB Securities in San Diego, Calif. «The time frame [for ESCs] is now for drug discovery, soon for personalized medicine, and decades for therapeutic use,» adds Bob Palay, chairman and CEO of Cellular Dynamics International (CDI), a
biotech company working with ESCs in Madison, Wisc..
I hope that for this particular disease WHO and the various international organisations will
work with the
biotech and pharmaceutical
companies to deliver this progress to the developing world as well as western holiday makers and military personnel.»
Research & Development IAVI
worked with the Japanese
biotech company DNAVEC, based in Tsukuba City, to jointly develop an AIDS vaccine candidate based on its novel Sendai vector technology.
iCardiac commercialized research from the University of Rochester for better determining whether new pharmaceutical products are safe for the heart, and the
company now
works with a majority of the largest global pharma and
biotech companies.
Prior to joining ACI, Kristen
worked with several
biotech companies in the areas of external relations, business development and strategic planning.
The high - concept thriller follows a group of graduate students lured to Hawaii to
work for a mysterious
biotech company — only to find themselves miniaturized and cast out into the rain forest,
with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them.
Collaboration is a constant theme for
biotech companies, from inception to exit: researchers
work together to generate novel ideas, young
companies work with development and formulation partners, and collaborations between pharmaceutical
companies and
biotechs are the classic final phase of drug development.
Allergan was recently singled out in the MedReps.com «Best Place to
Work in Healthcare Sales» survey as the preferred employer of respondents seeking jobs
with biopharma and
biotech companies.
A scientific executive recruiter
working with pharmaceutical and
biotech companies for twenty one years.