Human Genome Sciences Inc., of Rockville, Md., named Michael Antonaccio as vice president of strategic drug development

We have a strong research base in ras and Miles has a chemical library, and drug development and marketing skills...Walsh said this deal shows how valuable good drug development programs are, noting that the large pharmaceutical companies spend over $1 billion a year on research and development each year

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In September 1993, Affinity established a wholly-owned subsidiary to provide drug development services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies

We are now using the compounds identified in our growth factor mimetics program to move forward to the challenging research in the structure-based design phase of our drug-development process

Sixteen pharmaceutical companies from the year-old Inter-Company Collaboration on AIDS Drug Development (ICC) have reached a consensus on a protocol to allow rapid evaluation of triple drug combinations for the treatment of AIDS...ICC scientific chair, Juergen Drews of Hoffman-La Roche made the announcement Thursday at the first meeting of the National Task Force on AIDS Drug Development (NTFADD) in Arlington, Va

The proceeds will be used to advance clinical trials and drug development, said company president Alan Steigrod

and the recently established Shanghai New Drug Development Center signed an agreement last week to collaborate in the development and manufacture of new drugs, including a lupus medication now about to enter Phase III clinical trials in the U.S. Genelabs (NASDAQ:GNLB) of Redwood City, Calif., will establish joint ventures with two pharmaceutical companies in Shanghai (the center of the Chinese biotechnology and pharmaceuticals industry

Stemler described completion of the plant as a major step toward the company's goal of human clinical trials in 1994, following its successful drug development/animal testing program

Astra/Merck's president, Wayne Yetter, noted that the company, which is currently owned by Merck & Co., "anticipates becoming, in the near future, a 50-50 joint-venture company focusing on taking the pharmaceutical discoveries of others through the drug development process to the marketplace

Viagene did cut back to three clinical trials from a planned five for a new HIV drug in development, but the company's president, Robert Abbott, conceded that overall market setbacks such as Synergen's and Centocor's disasters could be cited as significant reasons for Viagene's travails in going public and raising funds

Affymax's focus on drug discovery lends itself to this strategy, she explained, because the company can look to bigger partners for input in the expensive process of drug development and commercialization

The idea that women are left out of drug development trials is just wrong," said Robert Temple, director of the FDA's Office of Drug Evaluation I

Isis has been focusing on identifying improved oligonucleotide chemistries for antisense drug development

is adding an anti-anxiety compound to its drug-development portfolio through a licensing agreement with Rhone-Poulenc Rorer...Rhone-Poulenc decided to license out the compound when it shifted its drug-development priorities

These are the first lead compounds identified in Oncogene's proprietary drug development program

The new budget would also include $51 million for tuberculosis, a tenfold increase over the fiscal 1991 budget, some of which would contribute to physical mapping, and DNA sequencing of the bacillus, as well as more drug-development efforts

That group, Braverman said, is interested in later phases of drug development, but "the effort should be screening at the preclinical level for pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of compounds, and issues such as differences in metabolism and toxicities based on race and gender...Moreover, to be effective, the committee must be able to influence other committees, such as the AIDS Clinical Drug Development Committee, which grades new drugs after clinical trials but prior to FDA approval, and FDA's

Drug development in the company's three therapeutic areas is based on the genetic engineering of fungi, an approach Berkowitz said is "used as a very broad platform to solve problems and do drug discovery