...better ways of identifying subtypes of the disease and finding animal models that better mimic them to spur future drug development.Dr. Kapil Sethi, a professor of neurology and the director of the Movement Disorders Program at Georgia Regents...
...expected he would get it," Kim said. "It is great news."Kim's mentor at Duke, Dr. Howard Rockman, founded a drug development company with Lefkowitz called Trevena that is working to develop drugs for heart failure, for instance, and for...
...to find out what is causing the good effects, Yang said."We still need to find out which part can be used for drug development," she said. "From (lab) bench to bed, that's always a long way to go."The protein or small molecule could...
...could lead to big - and faster - breakthroughs in drug development, according to research at Georgia Health Sciences...alone" would be useful and provide cost-savings in drug development, Mumm said. It could also allow tinkering around...
...isolating biomarkers as potential diagnostic tools.Further down the road, those markers could also be helpful in drug development, an eventual goal of the company. MicroRNA could provide a way to do a kind of gene therapy, She said."With...
...things that we do as an organization," Alicia Agugliaro said after bringing her 7-year-old daughter to the drug-development company in Princeton, N.J., where she works in marketing communications.Her daughter "really paid attention...
...One of the other big issues in the development of Alzheimer's drugs is the terrible need for biomarkers for drug development," Dr. Buccafusco said. "One of the big areas in the AD game right now is to find drugs that will stop the progress...
...physicians. The publicly traded inVentiv works with the world's top 20 pharmaceutical companies. It assists with drug development, sales and marketing for 200 clients in the pharmaceutical or life sciences industries. Regarding the merger...
...knockout mice will even lead to the development of new drugs, perhaps dozens of them. One of the first steps in drug development is the identification of what biologists call a target - a biological molecule that is involved in the disease process...
...of the National Institute of Mental Health, which funded the research. "This gives us a new set of targets for drug development," but also "suggests a whole new area of investigation for trying to... ultimately discover does this have...
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