Drug Development Pharma - February 25, 2015
Bavarian Nordic to Present Findings at Symposium
Bavarian Nordic plans to present updated overall survival data from an NCI sponsored combination study of its active prostate cancer immunotherapy candidate PROSTVAC and ipilimumab, an immune checkpoint inhibitor, at the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium in Orlando, FL on Feb. 26. Approximately 20 perecent of men with advanced prostate cancer treated with PROSTVAC and Ipilimumab were alive 80 months after initiating […]
In a new job - February 24, 2015
New Hire at Heliospectra
Heliospectra AB, which specializes in intelligent lighting technology for greenhouse cultivation and plant research, has hired Dr. Sue Sisley as Director of Medicinal Plant Research. Dr. Sisley will provide the company with “in the field” knowledge and customer feedback. Working with growers to develop scalable medicinal plant growing methodologies, Dr. Sisley oversees data collection and […]
Collaboration - February 24, 2015
MedImmune/NIST Team Up
Biopharmaceutical research company MedImmune and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology are partners in a five-year research and development project to produce new medications or therapies using biological instead of chemical components. MedImmune is U.K.-based AstraZeneca PLC’s biologics research and development unit . It will provide funding for seven scientists for the first year. Each of the scientists will work on a […]
Uncategorized - February 23, 2015
Research Focusing on Parasites
Research conducted in Norway, Estonia, South Africa, the United Kingdom and likely soon Spain is examining the connection between parasitic infections and allergies and asthma. Professor Cecilie Svanes at the Centre for International Health at the University of Bergen (UiB), noted that German researchers have found antibodies suggesting that 10 to 20 percent of people […]
Funding - February 23, 2015
Norwegian Research Council Issues Grants
The Norwegian Research Council granted BerGenBio, Lifandis and Smartfish funding through the Program for User-Driven Research Based Innovation (BIA). The Research Council will grant a record amount of more than 600 MNOK to 65 Norwegian companies, of which nine are biotech companies. BerGenBio, Lifandis and Smartfish will receive about 10 million NOK each over four […]
Uncategorized - February 20, 2015
Brain Suffers if Sleep Deprived
Scientists are further researching the idea that brains “cleanse” themselves of waste proteins during sleep and too little sleep could contribute to diseases such as Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, depression and ADHD. A research team, lead by Professor Maiken Nedergaard from the University of Rochester Medical Center, made a huge breakthrough in sleep research in 2013, when Nedergaard and […]
