The second major part of the agreement, Stein said, is that Ligand gets access to the Wyeth-Ayerst library to search for non-estrogen and non- progesterone receptor targets and choose up to 24 compounds for drug development
Craig Tyler, Oxford Molecular's marketing manager at the company's Springfield, Va., office, told BioWorld, "Oxford Molecular works at the front end of drug development with software to understand how drugs interact with proteins
Proceeds will be used to fund Icos' primary drug development programs for treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases, such as asthma, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and cardiovascular disorders
Wilson said that while the industry has had a string of bona fide clinical trial disasters this year, Wall Street has often overreacted due to its ignorance about the nuts and bolts of the drug development process...Drug development _ what Wilson calls a "black art" _ has become transparent in the biotechnology industry
At a June meeting of the National Task Force on AIDS Drug Development, one AIDS activist who interviewed scientists conducting basic research on AIDS found that they spend 30 percent of their time writing grant proposals
Richard Rose, Cylexin's vice president, drug development and chief medical officer, told BioWorld that only three "mild and reversible" side effects _ two at the injection site and one headache _ possibly related to the drug were seen in Phase I testing, which involved 24 patients
company that manufactures HCV immunoassays for Organon. - Macrochem Corp., of Lexington, Mass., has completed the first phase of its drug development collaboration with Dermik Laboratories Inc. - Diatech Inc., of Londonderry, N.H., has signed a deal with Adcock Ingram for the South African rights to Diatech's imaging agents
has signed a five-year research and drug development agreement with the London-based Glaxo Holdings plc to identify genes involved in Type II diabetes or non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus
Cantab Pharmaceuticals plc is collaborating with Stanford University researchers on a drug development program based on regulation of activated T cells, which are linked to a broad range of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases
Volberding cited Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly & Co.'s recent decision to drop all active programs in AIDS drug development as typical of current sentiment in the pharmaceutical industry...Volberding blamed the decline in AIDS drug development on uncertainty over health care reform and the politics of AIDS
Rubin said the implied task - educating the public about the real risks and benefits of the drug development process and the biotechnology industry's precarious existence - is a daunting one
The National Task Force on AIDS Drug Development (NTFADD) recommended on Tuesday that regulatory review of research protocols involving human gene transfer be streamlined...These changes, if implemented, could allow gene therapy research and development to achieve parity with traditional drug development
The second major part of the agreement, Stein said, is that Ligand gets access to the Wyeth-Ayerst library to search for non-estrogen and non- progesterone receptor targets and choose up to 24 compounds for drug development