Sentences with phrase «worked with a biotech company»

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.

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.

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.