Earlier this month, Shire plc gained FDA approval for Xiidra (lifitegrast), the first drug approved for dry eye disease since Allergan Inc.'s Restasis (cyclosporine) was approved 14 years ago. Read More
Given the blistering rate at which researchers of all stripes, academic and corporate, are accumulating data on the molecular nature of disease, applying those data in drug discovery efforts is a natural next step. But, even with plentiful data and computing power, multiple roadblocks to reducing the time, costs and productivity of discovery remain. Read More
Over 45 years have elapsed since President Richard Nixon, in his State of the Union address on Jan, 22, 1971, asked for an appropriation of an extra $100 million to launch an intensive campaign to find a cure for cancer. "The time has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease. Let us make a total national commitment to achieve this goal." Read More
