Sentences with phrase «working on clinical trials»

These are provided to the doctors who elect to work on clinical trials that advance these drugs through the regulatory pipeline.»

Claire is currently a research assistant at the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, where she works on clinical trials.

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Freenome, a liquid biopsy startup that's looking to enter clinical trials, is working on technology that would be able to detect cancer in the body, including its location and type, using only blood samples.

«Watson is able to give us faster, better matching of patients to potential clinical trials that our oncologists wouldn't have otherwise be able to see — and I sit with our oncologists who work on this kind of thing,» Christopher Ross, CIO at the Mayo Clinic, told MobiHealthNews in an interview.

Some retrospective studies and preclinical work have indicated that it might also lower a person's risk of cancer, though at least one clinical trial wasn't able to show that it had any protective effect on esophageal cancer.

By printing multiple lung airways — or any other afflicted organ — from a human patient and testing drugs on them, pharma companies can bypass the ethically challenged practice of testing on animals and proceed to human clinical trials with greater confidence the drugs will actually work, according to Wadsworth.

Pharmaceuticals: Reflects Canada's existing regimes, systems and laws on: patent linkage; protection for clinical trial data; and early working exceptions.

He has published seminal works on blood pressure management through his role in the BPLTTC and played leading roles in a series of trials that define the clinical management of patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease.

Cole is the first Democrat to publicly announce a bid against Collins, whose fifth year in Congress has been marked by controversy over his investment in an Australian biotech company that critics said could have benefited from his work on a bill aimed at speeding clinical trials of new drugs.

Glenis herself had received an award for her work on encouraging medical research and transparency of clinical trial results.

But sometimes, they also have the privilege of seeing a therapy they worked on go to clinical trials or even to patients.

Lanza says that this time, he aims to do things right: direct good science focused on treating disease, publish in reputable journals with rigorous peer - review processes and work with high - quality collaborators and clinical centres for its trials.

At the moment, though, he is employed as a full - time clinician at a university hospital — and concurrently works on four research projects, from fundamental science to clinical trials.

It's kind of heartbreaking to hear these extraordinary innovators pick apart each other's work as they race to finish their various devices, complete clinical trials big enough to gain FDA approval and ramp up production with sufficient support personnel to help diabetics actually strap one on by 2017 or 2018.

Duke opened clinical trials that relied on Potti's work even as others were expressing concerns about their accuracy.

Biopure Corporation in Cambridge, Mass., is working on FDA approval for its «oxygen therapeutics,» which are intravenously administered to deliver oxygen to the body's tissues, after the agency in July 2005 put the company's clinical trials on hold, citing safety issues.

To help make that happen, the research team recently won a grant from MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation to develop a business plan for a startup that could work on commercializing the technology and performing clinical trials.

Patel published the results of a clinical trial on drug and psychological treatment, and he was working on other trials that assessed whether laypeople could be effective counselors.

His work on RMP - 7 came to naught in 1998: «We demonstrated in the Phase 1 and 2 trials that when RMP - 7 was delivered directly into the carotid artery that fed the tumor, we could open the blood - brain barrier and get clinical responses to the chemo.

Li Ying, a retired chemist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Materia Medica in Shanghai, who worked on the synthesis of artemisinin derivatives, wrote in an article in 2008 that Tu's method of extraction and purification yielded crystals containing artemisinin mixed with other chemicals, giving rise to toxicity in clinical trials.

White and colleagues will work with other collaborators at the Cancer Institute to develop early - phase patient clinical trials based on the findings from this study in the near future.

The lab is also working with the Breast Oncology Program at UCSF to make this data part of an adaptive clinical trial called I - SPY, which lets researchers identify the most effective therapies based on patient molecular profiling, and is collaborating with members of the UCSF Institute for Computational Health Sciences (ICHS) to put these and other public data into a centralized database that clinicians can access through an app to help make the most appropriate treatment decisions.

Working with the pharma and biotech industries, Poirier focuses on both performing the genetic tests in his laboratory and designing the clinical drug trials.

Trials of combination therapy are supported by the American Thyroid Association, but clinical studies are mixed on whether this approach works, Bianco said.

Being able to hold your own in a conversation on Wayne Rooney's or David Beckham's latest career move may not seem an obvious prerequisite for a career in clinical research, but it is a skill that Emma Harding - Esch found invaluable in her work as project coordinator for a trial in Gambia, west Africa.

Based on the results of this trial and past work, Ory said a larger phase three clinical trial — that is both randomized and controlled — is already underway investigating cyclodextrin for patients with NPC.

The one time a compound she worked on entered a clinical trial, she says, the team was very careful, checking and double - checking their toxicology data.

Clinton said figuring out which combinations of proven prevention strategies will work best in a given locale will require more research, noting that the U.S. government recently has invested $ 50 million on clinical trials to address these questions.

Now, working in partnership with ecancer, the ReDO project is publishing a series of papers on drugs with enough evidence to be taken to clinical trials.

Dr. Younossi stressed that while these preliminary results are encouraging, he plans to conduct further research to examine data outside of the clinical trial setting in order to evaluate the real - world consequences of a hepatitis C cure on work productivity and associated economic gains.

There is much work to be done on the product submission process including review of the physiological properties, potency and purity of substances, as well as in monograph development, standards of evidence, chemistry and manufacturing, and clinical trial development.»

OSR Grants and Contracts Officers works collaboratively with the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC) Clinical Research Management Office (CRMO) on LCCC clinical trial contract and budget negotiation, including spending account and sub-sitClinical Research Management Office (CRMO) on LCCC clinical trial contract and budget negotiation, including spending account and sub-sitclinical trial contract and budget negotiation, including spending account and sub-site setup.

Pedro de Noronha Pissarra, chief executive officer of Biotecnol said: «We're very proud to work with Cancer Research UK on the development of advanced clinical trial approaches in this competitive and highly promising field of immuno - oncology.

Piller and Bronshtein's work, and the follow - up pieces that came out of this investigation, applied real pressure on the government to fortify its efforts to improve clinical trial data reporting.

High - Level Consultation Event 2016: «Towards Ethics & Principles of Science Policy - Making» EuroScience Open Forum Manchester 2016: «Evidence Newcomers: Revolutionising Regional & Global Initiatives» «Waging War On Drugs Doesn't Work — Applying Harm Reduction Science Does» «The Right To Be Forgotten vs The Right To Know» «Toxicant Detectives: The Chemical Innovation Race, Lifestyle Risks & the Role of Animal Experiments» «Clinical Trial & Error: Why Narrowing The Resources Gap Matters» AAAS Boston 2016: «Neuroscience Clues To The Chemistry Of Addictions & Mood Disorders» «Statecraft & Scalpel: Regional & Global Health Diplomacy in 2016 And Beyond» Science Forum South Africa 2015: «Harm Reduction: Scientists Tackling Our Lifestyle Killers»

The development of a safe and effective vaccine takes many years and needs to go through many different stages of testing, including work on cells, testing on animals and finally clinical trials on humans.

In 1999, Ashworth was appointed the first director of the ICR's Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, which is now internationally recognized, with more than 120 scientists and researchers working on aspects of the disease ranging from basic molecular and cellular biology through to translational research and clinical trials.

This page features information on multiple myeloma and immunotherapy clinical trials for multiple myeloma patients, and highlights the Cancer Research Institute's role in working to bring effective immune - based cancer treatments to people with multiple myeloma.

Previously I worked with Dr Valerie Corrigall at KCL on the Rasolvir phase I / IIa clinical trial.

There are now multiple immunotherapies targeting clearance of alpha - synuclein from the brain in early - stage clinical trials, and multiple trials underway or in the works on the next generation of cell replacement therapies for dopaminergic neurons, including the TRANSEURO trial; the Summit4StemCell initiative, put together by Jeanne Loring — a researcher at The Scripps Research Institute who is exceptionally engaged with turning her research into therapies; a Japanese trial to be run by Jun Takahashi of Kyoto University in Japan (cf. here and here); and a trial centered at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center headed by cell biologist Lorenz Studer.

When a patient participates in a clinical trial, other available FDA - approved therapies are still available later on, in case a trial medication doesn't work.

«There's tremendous opportunity here,» said Jerilyn Bowers, spokeswoman for MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, which is so excited about its heart muscle regeneration drug that it's spun off a new company to shepherd the drug through clinical trials and to work on other regeneration possibilities.

This page features information on leukemia and immunotherapy clinical trials for leukemia patients, and highlights the Cancer Research Institute's role in working to bring effective immune - based treatments to both children and adults with leukemia.

This page features information on liver cancer and immunotherapy clinical trials for liver cancer patients, and highlights the Cancer Research Institute's role in working to bring effective immune - based cancer treatments to liver cancer patients.

This page features information on head and neck cancer and immunotherapy clinical trials for head and neck cancer patients, and highlights the Cancer Research Institute's role in working to bring effective immune - based cancer treatments to head and neck cancer patients.

This page features information on colorectal cancer and immunotherapy clinical trials for colorectal cancer patients, and highlights the Cancer Research Institute's role in working to bring effective immune - based cancer treatments to people with this kind of cancer.

This page features information on cervical cancer and immunotherapy clinical trials for cervical cancer patients, and highlights the Cancer Research Institute's role in working to bring effective immune - based cancer treatments to people with cervical cancer.

This page features information on esophageal cancer and immunotherapy clinical trials for esophageal cancer patients, and highlights the Cancer Research Institute's role in working to develop immune - based treatments for esophageal cancer.

This page features information on pancreatic cancer and immunotherapy clinical trials for pancreatic cancer patients, and highlights the Cancer Research Institute's role in working to bring effective immune - based cancer treatments to pancreatic cancer patients.

«It is exciting to be directly involved in creating an innovative clinical trial infrastructure that will yield important efficacy and safety data on novel asthma interventions,» says Dr. Jain, «I look forward to participating in this work and seeing how it directly impacts asthma patients.»