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Building better brain models for Parkinson’s disease and beyond

Drug Target Review

Turning this tide, Professor Jens Christian Schwamborn, a cell biology expert at the University of Luxembourg and co-founder of OrganoTherapeutics , is leading a groundbreaking effort to transform our understanding and treatment of these debilitating diseases. .

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Advanced 3D cell-based technologies

Drug Target Review

Pharmaceutical companies adapted the usage of organoids derived from specific patient derived tumours in cancer drug screening process for testing drug toxicities and efficacy. From 3D cell culture to organs-on-chips. Trends in Cell Biology. Reconstituting Organ-Level Lung Functions on a Chip. 2011;21(12):745-54.

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AM-Pharma Appoints Chief Medical Officer and VP Manufacturing to Support Global Pivotal Trial in Sepsis-associated Acute Kidney Injury

The Pharma Data

a multinational pharmaceutical company, where he was the head of Research & Development and responsible for the R&D strategy (France). in Cell Biology from Utrecht University. Dr. Kraan joins AM-Pharma from Pierre Fabre S.A., Before Pierre Fabre, Dr. Kraan was head of R&D at Stallergenes Greer Ltd.

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AI At The Frontier: Empowering Early Career Professionals In Drug Discovery

Elrig

Harini Srinivasan is a Principal Scientific Associate at Serna Bio with over 10 years of research experience in academic institutions, health care organizations and pharmaceutical companies. Driven by an interest in drug discovery Millie joined AstraZeneca after completion of her PhD at the end of 2020.

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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

Codon

When Louis Miller, now Chief of Malaria Cell Biology at the NIH, attended a malaria conference in Shanghai in 2008, he asked: Who discovered artemisinin? Medical research groups were joined by pharmaceutical companies, chemical and spice factories, botany institutes, and insect science institutes. Nobody had an answer.

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Guest Blog: Reflecting on the 2024 Society of Toxicology of Canada Symposium, by Ria Falvo, Director, Reporting

Alta Sciences

A non-profit organization, STC was founded in 1965 with 15 scientists from Montral-based pharmaceutical companies. Before joining Altasciences, Ria received a Bachelor of Science from McGill Universitys Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in 1998, and became a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology in October 2016.