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Forging a Path Forward for Substance Abuse Potential Studies With the Cross-Company Abuse Liability Council By Beatrice Setnik, PhD

Alta Sciences

Advancing Human Abuse Potential Studies at Altasciences At Altasciences, I have been able to focus on abuse potential evaluation, and our team has conducted over 60 HAP, abuse-deterrent formulation (ADF), and substance abuse studies since 2008. I have also supported the 8-factor analyses of many new drugs submitted for NDA approvals.

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Dr. Lolettima O. Johnson Celebrated for Dedication to the Field of Medicine

The Pharma Data

Doctor Johnson has had an inspiring career that encompasses several aspects of the pharmacy industry. Doctor Johnson aspires to incorporate the latest technologies available in healthcare to care for her patients. Subsequently, she decided to pursue a higher education in pharmacology following her high school graduation.

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AHA News: Hospice Candidate at 2, She’s Now 13 and Thriving

The Pharma Data

” That was the term the doctors used six months after a third surgery to correct a heart defect that left her struggling to breathe while her lungs continued to fill with fluid. A doctor suggested hospice. Several doctors came in to evaluate what they were seeing. She had her second open-heart surgery in February 2008.

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Gianluca Pirozzi, MD, PhD, Celebrated for Dedication to the Field of Immunology and Rare Disease Research

The Pharma Data

Dr. Pirozzi received a Doctorate of Medicine from Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma in Italy, a Doctorate of Philosophy in Immunology from Sapienza Università di Roma in Italy, a Post-Doctorate degree in Immunology from the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, and business training at the London Business School, UK.

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2021 Young Scientist Award winners announced

The Pharma Data

For their remarkable scientific contributions, doctoral student Julia Klaus, Zurich University VetSuisse Faculty, and Dr Yasmin Parr from the MRC-University of Glasgow, Centre for Virus Research, have received the 2021 ABCD Young Scientist Award. To foster young talent development in the feline health research community.

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Rap Music Is Putting Mental Health in the Spotlight

The Pharma Data

. “I think anyone who’s been a fan of rap music across the last two decades — myself included — had a feeling this was happening,” said study author Alex Kresovich, a doctoral fellow in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Defense-Forward Biosecurity

Codon

Doctors in training are told that when they hear hoofbeats, they should think horses, not zebras; rare diseases are the exception, not the rule. Nevertheless, the costs of DNA sequencing have dropped since 2001 , and since 2008 have decreased at a pace more rapid than that which Moore’s Law predicts for computing power.

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