Project BioShield: Consistent financing, markets, indemnity for biodefense vaccine developers needed
WASHINGTON, DC (April 4, 2003): Biotechnology companies are well suited to address the modest commercial o... Acquisition Program. However, we and other small companies cannot fully commit ourselves to the development and supply of biodefense vaccines unless doing so a...Biotech regulations impede crop domestication
...species. This could free up the energies of small companies and university scientists to produce valuable new ...expensive, risky and complex, especially for small companies and academic researchers." A better approach, Strauss said in the report, would be for the USDA's A...St. Jude develops vaccine against potential pandemic influenza virus H5N1 using reverse genetics
...ivalent in quality to those used by pharmaceutical companies to make biological agents such as vaccines. In addition, the centralization of genetic analysis and other molecular biology work, performed in the Hartwell Center for Bioinformatics and Biotechnology at St. Jude, greatly accelerated the process of bu...Chemical Heritage Foundation names John Baldeschwieler and George Hammond 2003 Othmer Gold Medalists
...tion. As an entrepreneur, John founded successful companies based on his own research. As a citizen he has advised U.S. presidents for more than 30 years on issues of security and health." "George Hammond is widely credited with creating the discipline of organic photochemistry, which laid the groundwork fo...Carnegie Mellon University chemists create versatile polymer brushes
...earch consortium that interacts with 21 industrial companies from around the world interested in creating novel polymeric materials for their markets. Some corporations have licensed ATRP technology and started commercial production. The present consortium, built on the first ATRP consortium founded in 1995 w...Phase III study results with Raptiva in the treatment of psoriasis presented at Annual AAD meeting
...sks inherent in the biotechnology industry and for companies engaged in the development of new products in a regulated market. These risks include those related to safety and efficacy of the products being studied; action, inaction or delay by the Food and Drug Administration and European regulators; analysis...Results from open-label Raptiva study suggest continued benefit with long-term treatment
...sks inherent in the biotechnology industry and for companies engaged in the development of new products in a regulated market. These risks include those related to safety and efficacy of the products being studied; action, inaction or delay by the Food and Drug Administration and European regulators; analysis...Scientific innovations, social issues and biobusiness at Bio Tech Helsinki 03
..., a recruitment event will beorganised for biotech companies and job candidates. Details on Investor Forum: http://www.biohelsinkiconf.com/investor-forum/index.php3 Media accreditations: http://www.biohelsinkiconf.com/media/index.htm For futher information on media arrangements, please contact Ms.PirjoRtknen,......DI, and GE Corporate Research, as well as regional companies such as Universal Instruments, Lockheed Martin and...hout the availability of next-generation products, companies stand little chance of survival in today's competitive and technology-hungry marketplace, Sammakia s...Study concludes environmental management systems can boost performance, compliance
...ead to better performance, and agencies can reward companies that have done it in various ways such as giving t...n related research surveying several thousand U.S. companies supplying the auto industry to see what difference it makes to firms when their industrial customers...Tour operators to influence hotel industry to integrate environmental criteria into operations
...ted accommodations in an effort to influence hotel companies worldwide to integrate key environmental and socia...ss model for conducting business with global hotel companies should be based on a stepped approach, allowing the necessary time for suppliers to improve their su...Researchers find blacks also have telltale protein but higher in osteoarthritis patients and men
...letal and Skin Diseases and several pharmaceutical companies have begun a public-private consortium, called the Osteoarthritis Initiative, to find biomarkers of osteoarthritis that could help evaluate osteoarthritis progression, Jordan said. "Currently, to be able to market an osteoarthritis drug that actually...Boston chemist wins national award for research with enzymes, antibiotics
... wall. Their fundamental insights have helped drug companies design new variants of vancomycin, some of which are now in human trials. Walsh, who originally planned to go to medical school after college, was an undergraduate researcher in the laboratory of Konrad Bloch when he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology...Experimental Biology 2003 meets in San Diego April 11-15
...nally underrepresented in science. More than 350 companies are expected to participate in an exposition of scientific equipment, supplies and publications, open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 12, through Monday, April 14. Experimental Biology 2003 will be held at the San Diego Convention Center. Go to ...Iowa City chemist wins national award for drug research
...tive structure of heparin, enabling pharmaceutical companies to manufacture the drug rather than harvest it from animal tissue. Linhardt received his undergraduate degree from Marquette University in 1975 and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1979. He is a member of the ACS divisions of carbohydrate, ...U of A scientist finds Atlantic salmon escapes higher than government reports
...roduced in a Vancouver Island river. Multinational companies are capitalizing on a world-wide demand for salmon by growing Atlantics, deemed easier to farm than native Pacific species, in open-net cages along the B.C. coast. Young salmon are reared in fresh-water hatcheries and then moved to sea cages to be gr...HHS announces contracts to develop safer smallpox vaccines
...ives. For example, within the first six months the companies must produce several thousand doses of their proto.... Following approval of human study protocols, the companies will conduct tests of the vaccines safety in healthy adults. Finally, the companies must develop a p...Study examines chemical safety across United States, effects on population
...emical incidents that must be reported by chemical companies are being reported. Agencies need to make databases on chemical incidents fully searchable and accessible by the public. Industry, government and public interest groups must determine how to define "chemical safety" and what factors will be examined ...Lessons from abroad: United States trails Europe in dependence on renewable energy
...nvironment and their quality of life, Lovins said, companies in nations that have invested in the new sources o...n "socially responsible investing," investments in companies that agree to practice environmentally and socially responsible policies. As a result, such investme...Social issues loom in development of gene-specific meds, says Stanford reseacher
... even patent infringement as it relates to private companies that conduct genetic research. "This database is cutting new ground on social, ethical and legal levels, as well as scientific ground," Klein said. "But the social issues are huge. How do you get a whole community to give up its data? And how do we ...