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Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to F. William Studier for development of widely used protein- and RNA-production platform

Broad Institute

“Bill Studier’s development of T7 phage RNA polymerase for use in preparing RNA templates for multiple uses in research labs worldwide has been a truly revolutionary technical advance for the entire field of molecular biology,” said Joan Steitz, the Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University.

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Women in Stem with Lidia Pieri

Drug Target Review

Sibylla’s scientific founders come from very different scientific fields that do not usually speak to each other, such as theoretical physics, molecular biology and pharmaceutical chemistry. And so, I have been the managerial co-founder and CEO of Sibylla since 2017. Identifying new drugs is an extremely complex project.

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The evolution of cell therapy to address unmet medical needs

Drug Target Review

Also, many companies never reached the point where they received validation from big pharmaceutical companies. He received a BS in biology from Boston College, a masters in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an M.B.A.

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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. Having a combination of computational skills & scientific knowledge such as molecular biology, genomics is also important.

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Sosei Heptares’ COVID-19 Program Identifies Potent Broad Spectrum Anti-Viral Small Molecules for Further Development

The Pharma Data

The program is being led by Sosei Heptares and progressed in collaboration with multiple companies including Syngene International, Domainex, Fidelta, o2h Discovery, Piramal, WuXi AppTec and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

3 Another considerable obstacle to pharmaceutical companies’ interest (and investment) is the fact that for a product to be patentable — and therefore profitable — it has to be considered new and inventive. ” “Somebody’s just got to break through with good data, even if it’s not us.

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The Promise of Gas Vesicles

Codon

Even after a half-century of molecular biology research, scientists didn’t know until recently how gas vesicles physically trap gas while occluding water. angstroms, or roughly twice the length of a single carbon-carbon bond. This could transform medicine.