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Europe: Where is the drug discovery innovation?

Drug Discovery World

Cell and gene therapy is a particular area of focus for the region, centred around the VU LSC-EMBL Partnership for Genome Editing Technologies, a partnership between the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).

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The role of STRIs in cancer

Drug Target Review

About the author Dr Steve Worland President & Chief Executive Office, eFFECTOR Therapeutics Dr Steve Worland has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since our inception in May 2012. Previously, Dr Worland served as Chief Executive Officer of Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,

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Leveraging ADCs in precision oncology strategy

Drug Target Review

Dr Heather O’Neill, PhD, Caris Life Sciences VP of Precision Medicine Dr Heather O’Neill joined Caris Life Sciences in 2012 and currently serves as Vice President of Precision Medicine. His work has been published in many high-impact journals and presented at international oncology meetings.

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AstraZeneca unveils The Discovery Centre (DISC) in Cambridge

The Pharma Data

Within close propinquity to AstraZeneca’s new centre is the University of Cambridge’s School of Clinical Medicine, the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cancer Research UK and the Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke’s Hospitals, among others. region in the US, and Gothenburg in Sweden.

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A how-to for performing quantitative bioimaging

Broad Institute

Nature Methods, 2012]. Nature Methods, 2012]. Funding Support for this work was provided by the National Institutes of Health, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF through the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, and a Morgridge Postdoctoral Fellowship.

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Welcome to Asimov Press

Codon

Molecular biology, as the field came to be called 3 , pushed biology from an object of study, driven forward by gentleman scientists and precocious country clergymen, into a tool with which to solve urgent problems. CRISPR gene-editing was invented in 2012 and applied to human embryos soon after.

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Battling antibiotic resistance in the lab and the clinic

Broad Institute

He majored in biological chemistry at the University of Chicago and during his junior year, he had a fortuitous meeting with his academic advisor about finding a student research position that would let him dive more deeply into the molecular details of biological systems. A combined MD/PhD program offered both opportunities.

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